Global IssuesNews headlines for “War on Terror”, page 19
PAKISTAN: Nearly Osama’s Neighbour
- Inter Press Service
It was far from home for an eight-year old, about 400 km from the eastern city of Lahore, to be exact. But Abbottabad was home. My father lived there; he was born there, in that house which my grandfather built.
PAKISTAN: Bomb Survivors Vow to Pursue Taliban Attackers
- Inter Press Service
Survivors of the twin suicide attacks on Shabqadar Fort in Charsadda town in north-west Pakistan said they were eager to take on their assignments as new members of the Frontier Constabulary (FC), even as some are still recuperating from wounds inflicted by the attacks.
PAKISTAN: Militancy Keeps Refugees Far From Home
- Inter Press Service
Back home, Abdur Rehman’s family had a spacious house that could easily fit the 10 members of his family. Now they all have to squeeze into a small tent in a refugee camp near Peshawar in north-west Pakistan.
KENYA: Rights Defender Deemed 'Contrary to National Interest'
- Inter Press Service
At about 9 pm on May 10, British human rights lawyer Clara Gutteridge arrived at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport from Dar es Salaam, where she was investigating the arrests of Tanzanians accused of terrorism.
PAKISTAN: Parliament Backs Army and Intel Service
- Inter Press Service
Pakistan’s Senate and National Assembly closed ranks behind the country’s prime spy agency, the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), which the U.S. government suspects of having harboured Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
PAKISTAN: More Attacks Feared as Militants Avenge Osama
- Inter Press Service
Officials of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in north-western Pakistan want the federal government to send in the army, following a suicide attack that killed some 80 paramilitary police trainees at Shabqadar Fort in Charsadda town north of Peshawar Friday morning.
Pakistanis Indifferent to Anti-U.S Rallies
- Inter Press Service
Two of the country’s main religious-political groups have been calling on Pakistanis to come out and protest the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, but the public response has been lukewarm.
PAKISTAN: Osama’s Women: Who Are They, What Do They Know?
- Inter Press Service
Pakistan authorities announced they would let the United States interrogate the widows of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, provided their countries of origin grant permission to do so.
Calls Mount to Push U.S. Troop Presence in Iraq Past 2011
- Inter Press Service
Amid high-level U.S. congressional delegations to evaluate developments in Iraq, a growing number of voices here, from both the Barack Obama administration and members of Congress, are concerned about a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country by December 2011 — a deadline set forth in the supposedly inviolable Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the U.S. and Iraqi governments back in 2008.
Pakistan PM Ducks the Osama Question
- Inter Press Service
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's much-awaited policy statement in the National Assembly didn’t satisfy the people as he failed to say anything new.
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