MUST READ: The Destabilization of Pakistan, by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky TARIQ ALI: “Obama’s Afghan-Pak Syndrome" Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan: Jeremy Scahill Reveals Private Military Firm Operating in Pakistan Under Covert Assassination and Kidnapping Program Here's Why Obama Is "Gravely Concerned" About Pakistan May 21, 2009 - Fighting in Pakistan displaced 1.5 million News Articles Who'll rein in Pakistan? Look to old partner China Beijing has made huge investments and earned trust, By MYRA MACDONALD, Reuters, December 11, 2009 Kissinger's fantasy is Obama's realityThe road to stability runs through Kashmir. With its latest surge, America has taken a terrible diversion, December 11, 2009 GOODBYE AFGHANISTAN, WELCOME KASHMIR, The Telegraph, December 10. 2009 Open Letter To Citizens Of the U.S, October 2009 US to give Pakistan $1.5 billion a year - with strings attached, The Christian Science Monitor, October 8, 2009 US wants to expand drone attacks into Quetta, Dawn, September 28, 2009 Unmanned Drones Could Be Banned, Says Senior Judge, The Telegraph/UK, July 6, 2009 Top judge: 'use of drones intolerable', The Independent UK When Drones Become Indiscriminate, CommonDreams/Inter Press Service, June 30, 2009 Pakistani Opposition Politician Imran Khan on US Drone Attacks, the “Massive Human Catastrophe” in the Swat Valley and the Escalation of War in Afghanistan, Democracy Now, June 24, 2009 U.S. Tightens Airstrike Policy in Afghanistan, New York Times, June 21, 2009 What's the Cost of America's Secret Drone War? Gareth Porter, CounterPunch, June 15, 2009 The Drone War: A Closer Look, April 2009, Kathy Kelly & Brian Terrell for CommonDreams.org (Highlight of the campaign to ground the drones) CommonDreams Articles on Drones Pipelineistan goes Iran-Pak , Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, May 28, 2009 BBC Latest Podcasts Pakistan: Lift Swat Curfew for Trapped Civilians Food, Water, Medicine Running Out in Conflict Zone, Human Rights Watch, May 27, 2009 Behind the nightmare in Swat, ZNet, May 27, 2009 Aerial Bombing Makes Terrorists, TruthOut, May 24, 2009 Pakistan: IOM appeals for funds to assist displaced families, IOM May 22, 2009 Over 2.5 million displaced in Malakand, 85% of IDPs not in camps, The News, May 20, 2009 Unheeded lessons of democracy, Dawn, May 20, 2009 The Drones Are Coming: New War on Civilians, Znet, May 15, 2009 Drones: America's New Air Force, 60 Minutes, May 10, 2009 REBRANDING THE LONG WAR, Part 1 Obama does his Bush impression, Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, May 8, 2009 REBRANDING THE LONG WAR, Part 2 Balochistan is the ultimate prize, Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, May 8, 2009 Humanitarian crisis intensifying in NWFP: ICRC, The News, May 8, 2009 God, the devil and Pakistan, Daily Times, May 7, 2009 PAKISTAN: Little help for IDPs as violence spreads: Thousands of people displaced in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) by fighting between Taliban militants and the Pakistan army have so far received limited help, aid agencies say, irinnews.org, May 5, 2009 Editorial: Clashing interpretations of Islam, Pakistan Daily Times, May 5, 2009 Pakistan is facing galloping Talibanisation: Ahmed Rashid, The Dawn Blog, May 5, 2009 The man that is Sufi Mohammad, The NEWS, May 5, 2009 Advisor: ‘US Needs to Call off Drone Strikes in Pak’, Common Dreams, May 3, 2009 Deadly social change, Dawn, May 1, 2009 Students, musicians fight and fear Taliban, CNN, May 1, 2009 INSIGHT: More complicated than you think! Pakistani state and society is far more complex and multi-layered for it to come apart in the way reports in the US press predict, Pakistan Daily Times, April 24, 2009 EDITORIAL: External red herrings and state abdication, Pakistan Daily Times, April 24, 2009 Analysis: State and religion, Pakistan Daily Times, April 23, 2009 Obama's Af-Pak Quandary, The Times of India, April 21, 2009 Under the growing Washington- Tel Aviv - New Delhi axis: After Iraq and Afghanistan, Is it Pakistan? , Sri Lanka Daily News, April 21, 2009 Extremist Tide Rises in Pakistan After Reaching Deal in North, Islamists Aim to Install Religious Law Nationwide, Washington Post, April 20, 2009 Women's Rights In Pakistan: Looking Past The Flogging, Huffington Post, April 14, 2009 Outrage over Taliban flogging of Pakistani girl could threaten peace deal, The Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 2009 A Pakistani-centric understanding of militancy, The News, Wednesday, April 01, 2009 Obama Rules Out US Troops In Pakistan, Huffington Post, March 29, 2009 U.S. plans to boost civilian aid to Pakistan, Lost Angeles Times, March 24, 2009 Pakistan stability key to Afghan task, Toronto Star, Canada, March 23, 2009 Pakistan’s Chief Justice Returns to Work , New York Times, March 23, 2009 Pakistan's peace deals offer US a pointer, Asia Times, March 24, 2009 US 'needs new Pakistan strategy' , BBC, March 22, 2009 Deposed Judges reinstated after protests, in sign of Zardari's weakening grip, The Nation, March 16, 2009 Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Begins to Emerge, VOA, March 14, 2009 A View from Lahore: U.S. Support for Pakistan’s Democracy Needed, MiddleEastProgress.Com, March 12, 2009 Pakistani-American Groups Urge Obama to Support Reform in Pakistan, VOA, March 11, 2009 A country staring disaster in the face, by William Dalrymple, The Guardian, March 4 2009 Videos US Drone attacks in Pakistan from Democracy Now, Democracy Now US seeks to expand covert war in Pakistan, Al Jazeera YouTube Tahira Abbdullah in March 12 2009 Capital Talk Talk, March 12, 2009, PakPoint.Com Long March Begins, (Leaving Sindh High Court) March 12, 2009 Long March Begins, (Marching through Saddar) March 12, 2009 Blogs dawntravelshow.com/dblog www.chapatimystery.com www.pakvoices.net www.teeth.com.pk/blog www.supportpakistan.org karachi.metblogs.com Local Papers The News International Daily Dawn Daily Times Other Online News The Guardian Pakistan Section BBC News— South Asia Focus Huffington Post on Pakistan Amnesty International on Pakistan