Global IssuesNews headlines for “War on Terror”, page 18
U.S. Uses Peace Talks to Divide Taliban from Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
The leaked reports over the past two weeks of a series of meetings between U.S. officials and a Taliban figure close to leader Mullah Omar seemed to point to real progress toward a negotiated settlement of the war in Afghanistan.
PAKISTAN: Women Lose Livelihood Centres to Militants
- Inter Press Service
Housewife Shahida Jabeen was devastated when she heard the news that she could no longer take sewing and embroidery classes at the local training centre in her hometown in South Waziristan in north-west Pakistan.
CANADA: Documenting the ‘Truth’
- Inter Press Service
'I told you the truth, you don’t like the truth', Omar Khadr shouts at a Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent. The accused, then aged 16, breaks down: 'Ya Ummi! (Mummy!)', he cries in Arabic. This four-day interrogation, captured on CCTV at the notorious Guantánamo Bay prison, lies at the heart of the documentary 'You don’t like the truth — 4 days in Guantánamo'.
U.S./SOUTH ASIA: Influential Think Tank Urges Long-Term Commitment
- Inter Press Service
With public and Congressional debate hotting up over post-bin Laden U.S. policy in South Asia, a think tank with close ties to the administration of President Barack Obama is calling for a strategy that will keep Washington deeply engaged in the region for a long time to come.
CHILE: Dictatorship-Era Law Used to Squelch Activism
- Inter Press Service
'What is happening in Chile isn't justice; it's a pantomime, because under the anti-terrorism law, there is absolutely no way justice can be done,' José Venturelli, spokesman for the European Secretariat of the Ethics Commission against Torture, said on a recent visit to this South American country.
Tajikistan's New Generation of Guerrillas
- Inter Press Service
While most of the world is closely watching the Middle East, monitoring the human rights situations in Bahrain, Syria, Libya and Israel, the International Crisis Group (ICG) is keeping its eye on neighbouring Central Asia.
BOOKS: Victims of Quiet Terror Campaign Against Cuba Speak Out
- Inter Press Service
The death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at his hideout in Pakistan earlier this month was hailed by people across the United States and around the world as a fitting end for a self-confessed mass murderer.
U.S. Rapping Hard Again at Pakistan’s Door
- Inter Press Service
Pakistan defence experts and observers say the country could expect another unilateral raid by U.S. forces, similar to the one they carried out in Abbottabad on May 2, that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Pakistan Fighting Off U.S. Aid
- Inter Press Service
The killing of Osama Bin Laden on May 2 in a covert operation by the United States has prompted strident calls by many in Pakistan to see it as a lesson for the country to stand on its feet, say no to foreign aid and shrug off the title 'hired gun of the U.S.'
Obama Troop Surge Decision Ignored Pak-Taliban Ties
- Inter Press Service
The unilateral U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden created a spike in mutual recriminations between U.S. and Pakistani politicians, but their fundamental conflict of interest over Afghanistan was already driving the two countries toward serious confrontation.
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