Pakistan: Intelligence agencies seize record of two ministries

Khaleeq Kiani [DAWN]

ISLAMABAD: Intelligence agencies seized on Friday the record of at least two federal ministries to investigate an alleged institutional lapse in raising objections over Indian aggression on the country’s water rights and securing international carbon credits on hydropower projects disputed by Pakistan.

According to sources, the agencies came into action after receiving reports that the ministries of water and power and environment had absolved themselves of negligence in the matter. They said arrests of some officials could not be ruled out.

While inter-ministerial correspondence over the lapse continued for over nine months, the crucial objections over adverse environmental impact of the projects nearing completion on the Indian side had not yet been officially taken up with New Delhi, the sources said.

They said the ministry of water and power had said it was not responsible for the lapse because it was the job of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency to conduct an environmental impact assessment.

The ministry said it had no role in ratification of trans-boundary impact assessments, whose documents had not been shared with it.

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MQM Militancy Wing, A Fairy Tale OR Media trial?

What a sizzling, thrilling start of the day. The next morning of the MQM Jalsa in Lahore and all the newspapers and epapers have highlights and top stories of MQM’s militant wing and their target killings. The stories were perfect from all the angels of suspense, thrill and drama.   I looked back at the calendar hanging on my wall, was I dreaming or am I back in 1995. All those funny names and characters of the past were in action. This time it was Ajmal Pahari telling the fairy tales of MQM’s horror movie to the province of Punjab.

WOW…I said…What a  dramatized timing…just after the MQM public gathering in Lahore, horror stories emerged in all the news papers of Pakistan. So who is behind everything in Pakistan? Someone really wants to manoeuvres the whole nations way of thinking in their own way and is so powerful that the whole print and e-media is obliged to obey them. It must not be just one political party or just ruling elite. It is someone greater.

All fairy tales…stories told by militants themselves without any hesitation is very unusual. What they were doing since so long ? why not captured in last 15 years? Or they had been waiting for the MQM to shift their movement in Punjab?

When we learn something happening we first learn the history of that something, how it evolved in the past. The history tells us that similar kind of sizzling and horrifying stories of MQM terrorism emerged in every news paper and on television in 90’s in 1992 and 1995 during the state and military operations against the MQM. The beneficiaries were the especially PML-N and the other feudo-capitalist political parties. Those reports and media trail against the MQM diffused the chances for the MQM to emerge as a large national political party but then later on in the coming years, we saw none of the cases, MQM was proven guilty in the courts as they all appeared to be politicized and fake.

The recent stories like the one we saw in all the news papers and in an article by Ansar Abbasi is also very sizzling and dramatic like all the previous stories that we used to read in popular Urdu news papers in the past. It has all the thrill, suspense, action and situation that is required for a hit Hollywood movie but it has some major loop holes and blunders in its script a flop “Lollywood” movie, quite enough to prove MQM innocent.

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Pakistan would back Taliban office in Turkey, official says

Reuters

ANKARA (Reuters) - Pakistan would back a plan to allow the Taliban to open a political office in Turkey to help with talks to end the war in Afghanistan, a Pakistani official said on Thursday during a visit by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to Ankara.

Muslim Turkey, which has hosted talks aimed at building trust between Pakistan and Afghanistan, has said it is open to allowing the establishment of a diplomatic presence for the Taliban on its soil, but that there is no formal request yet.

Analysts say that any solution to the Afghan conflict would likely require the support of Pakistan.

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13 Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese airspace

The Daily Star Lebanon

BEIRUT: Over a dozen Israeli warplanes violated Lebanon’s airspace Thursday, flying over the southern village of Alma Shaab and Rmeish in contravention of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, the Lebanese Army said.

“The warplanes [12 of them] performed circular maneuvers in the skies over many Lebanese areas before leaving [the airspace] at 9:55 am over the village of Rmeish,” the guidance directorate of the Lebanese Army said in the statement, adding that another warplane had violated Lebanon’s airspace earlier in the day over Rmeish and circled over the south, Ryak, Baalbeck and Hermel before leaving.

Meanwhile, two Israeli tanks briefly entered a disputed border area with Lebanon near the village of Adaysseh at 7:50 a.m., the Lebanese Army said in another statement Thursday.

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PAKISTAN PEACEKEEPERS RESCUED TURKISH AMBASSADOR AT IVORY COAST

Pakistan Army troops rescued Turkish Ambassador at Ivory Coast Mr Yekcin Kaga Erensoi alongwith three other staff members, Mr Golant, Mr Mahmut (third Secretary) and Mr Ali Ahisk at Ivory Coast (Abijan) on 11 April 2011. Turkish Ambassador was trapped in a Hotel in a volatile situation where gun battle was going on in rival factions when he asked Pakistani troops for help Pakistani troops immediately rushed and rescued the Turkish Embassy staff.  Nine Nigerian citizens who were trapped in troubled area were also rescued by Pakistani troops. It is pertinent to mention that Pakistan Army troops as part of UN Contingent are playing an active role in saving here the lives of the innocent people of Côte d'Ivoire. Pakistani troops have performed extremely well by protecting foreign embassies and effectively controlling the situation in their area of responsibility. United Nations have greatly appreciated Pakistani Peacekeeper’s contributions in restoring peace in the country.

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2 French men arrested in Pakistan

Asif Shahzad & Jamey Keaten

PARIS (AP) - Two suspected Islamist extremists from France have been arrested in Pakistan after meeting with a man accused of ties to al-Qaida, officials said Thursday.

The French men, who have not been identified publicly, were arrested at a bus stop in the eastern city of Lahore in late January after going there from the airport with a man identified as Tahir Shehzad, a Pakistani intelligence official said.

Information from Shehzad led Pakistani agents to Umar Patek, an Indonesian al-Qaida linked suspect detained on Jan. 25, the official said. The French men had intended to travel with Patek to Pakistan's North Waziristan region where al-Qaida's top command is based, he said on condition of anonymity.

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ISI chief reaches Turkey, made covert visit to France‎

Online News Network

ISLAMABAD: Inter Service Intelligence Chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha has reached Turkey on his way from US while he also made a secret visit to France.

Defence sources told Online that on his way from US ISI Chief made a stopover in Turkey where he met President Asif Ali Zardari and briefed him on his talks with US Intel CIA chief Leon Panetta regarding national security and drone attacks. 

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Human Rights Violations In India

Mohammad Jamil [Pakistan Observer]

The US state department released a report on global human rights abuses discussed situation in other countries including China and Pakistan, but it dwelled at length on gross human rights violations committed by Indian security forces on Kashmiris – from killings to torture – in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) and other conflict-hit regions. “There were numerous reports that the government and its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings, including the extra-judicial killings of suspected criminals and terrorists, especially in areas of conflict such as Jammu and Kashmir, the North Eastern States, and the Naxalite belt, where non-governmental forces also committed such killings,” the US State Department said in the annual 2010 assessment of the state of human rights around the world. India’s repression in Indian Held Kashmir is despicable. In September, Indian government reinstated the four police officials allegedly involved in the May 2009 killing of Neelofar Jan and Asiya Jan in the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir despite the fact the high court had ordered the arrest of those officers on the charges of suppressing and destroying evidence in the case. On June 28, Shakeel Ahmad Ahangar, Neelofar’s husband and Asiya’s brother had filed a petition to hold inquiry into the killings of the two women. 

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Sudan has 'irrefutable proof' Israel behind air strike

KHARTOUM — Sudan said Sunday it had irrefutable evidence that Israel carried out the air strike on its Red Sea coast last week that killed two people and destroyed the car they were travelling in.

Tuesday's attack was carried out by two AH-64 Apache helicopters, around 15 kilometres (nine miles) south of Port Sudan, Sudan's foreign ministry said in a statement.

They flew in from the Red Sea and unleashed a barrage of Hellfire missiles and machinegun fire on the car after having jammed the local radar system, the statement added.

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Afghanistan: CIA drone kill 2 US soldiers, mistook them for Taliban

Jason Ditz [Antiwar]

The ridiculous inaccuracy of the US drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan has taken another turn for the worse. Reports are now emerging that a US drone strike in Helmand Province actually killed two US soldiers. The official explanation is that they were mistaken for Taliban.

US air strikes mistaking Afghan police or soldiers for Taliban are fairly common, and sometimes US aircraft will see a bunch of children gathering firewood and think “Taliban.” Having US drones firing US missiles at US soldiers leaves one wondering how little confirmation is actually needed before missiles are fired.

The Pentagon has yet to confirm the story, but says the killings are under investigation. They confirmed the deaths in Helmand but never explained how they happened. According to the reports US Marines on the ground had come under fire called for backup and, when the backup troops approached them, called in the strike.

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Pakistan: Construction Of Chashma-II Nuclear Plant Complete

Hindustan Times

Pakistan has completed construction of the Chashma-II nuclear power plant with China's cooperation and the facility has started producing 300 MW of electricity on a trial basis. The project was completed ahead of schedule in a period of five years. The plant has been connected to the national electricity grid, state-run APP news agency reported. 

Sources in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission said construction of two more reactors – Chashma-III and Chashma-IV – has been started at the Chashma site with Chinese assistance. 

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Afghanistan: US Intelligence Failures Led To Civilian Casualties

Huffington Post

At 6:22 a.m., the drone pilot radioed an update: "All ... are finishing up praying and rallying up near all three vehicles at this time."

The camera operator watched the men climb back into the vehicles.

"Oh, sweet target," he said.

None of those Afghans was an insurgent. They were men, women and children going about their business, unaware that a unit of U.S. soldiers was just a few miles away, and that teams of U.S. military pilots, camera operators and video screeners had taken them for a group of Taliban fighters.

The Americans were using some of the most sophisticated tools in the history of war, technological marvels of surveillance and intelligence gathering that allowed them to see into once-inaccessible corners of the battlefield. But the high-tech wizardry would fail in its most elemental purpose: to tell the difference between friend and foe.

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When The India-Sponsored Mukti Bahini Slaughtered 1 Million Biharis

Muhammad Abul Kalam [Bangladesh Patriot]

I am grateful to Sarmila Bose for bringing the hidden facts in light.Pakistani Forces fought bravely in East Pakistan in 1971 this has been acknowledged by the Indian army. Rape committed by Pakistan Army in East Pakistan was very rare. In every army there are evil doers. In Pakistan army there may be few.

Actually Mukti Bahini and Bengal Regiment personnel raped the Bihari and west Pakistani women killed about 800,000/ to 1,000,000/ innocent Biharis and West Pakistanis in East Pakistan in 1971. After the 16th of December 1971 Bangladeshis showed the dead bodies and graves of these innocent Biharis and Pakistanis as Bengali people killed by the Pakistan army. This is the fact.

How cruel our Bengali Brothers could be we have observed in the BDR mutiny recently. I belong to a Bihari family who migrated from India to East Pakistan in 1947 and settled in Panchabibi in the district of Bogra. My uncle Bashir and my elder brother was a school going boys at that time and were admitted in a Bangla school at Panchabi and they both Passed S.S.C examination from Panchabibi High School.

In 1971 my uncle was a Primary school teacher there .Although our mother language was Urdu we were educated in Bangla. Our friends were Bengalis but in April 1971 when Panchabi was under the control of Mukti Bahini the Biharis were called to attend a meeting in the Panchabibi Police Station where matter of their safety was to be discusses.The day was Friday. When the time of Juma Prayer came the 110 Biharis who came to attend the meeting asked permission to go to the nearby mosque and say there prayer but they were not permitted to go to the mosque.

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Zaid Hamid Exposed By Sister of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui

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zaid hamid's lies about afghan war

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Pakistan Army hopes to win hearts and minds in South Waziristan

Iqbal Khattak [Central Asia Online]

WANA – Sector-in-charge Brig. Abu Bakkr has moved from conventional warfare to a hearts-and-minds campaign to squeeze out the al-Qaeda and Taliban remaining in border areas of South Waziristan – birthplace of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

“Broad engagement with the local population is what my priority and strategy is to consolidate gains made against militants through conventional warfare,” Abu Bakkr told Central Asia Online after a briefing on the situation in Khamrang Sector in South Waziristan, which stretches for 45km along the border with Afghanistan.

Until a few years ago, militants took advantage of the area’s high peaks, inhospitable terrain and a supportive or indifferent local population to attack coalition forces in Afghanistan’s Paktika Province.

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Good And Bad Taliban In Pakistan

Commentary by Anatol Lieven [National Interest]

The Pakistan Army’s counter-insurgency campaign in Swat has been undeniably successful, not least in comparison to our own efforts in Afghanistan. 

Though until the spring of 2009 the district was one of the centers of militancy in Pakistan, the last suicide bombing there was in July 2010. The leadership of the Pakistani Taliban and their local allies have been killed, captured or driven out. The main leader, Fazlullah, has reportedly taken refuge in Kunar province of Afghanistan, where he was based as a leader of Pakistani volunteers against the Soviets back in the 1980s.

In the lower Swat valley at least, reconstruction has also gone well – astonishingly well, given that on top of the damage caused by the Taliban and the war against them came the floods of August 2010, which hit the narrow Swat valley especially badly. On the whole, I was very impressed by what I saw in Swat when I visited it last month for the first time since the summer of 2009. 

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Released spy Gopal Das expresses anger on Indian government and RAW

Punjab Newsline Network

ATTARI (AMRITSAR): Angry Gopal Das who was repatriated by Pakistan here today, exhausted his anger on Indian Government while reaching on Indian Territory.

 

Talking to media he said, “Yes I was the man of Indian intelligence and went to Pakistan on spying mission where I was arrested for espionage. But after my arrest Indian intelligence Agency never bothered to get me released from Pakistan’s jail. Even the Government of India also never bothered to save my youth”.

 

Adding further he said, “I suggest everybody never go to Pakistan for spying, since the intelligence agency (RAW) always uses the poor people and if arrested, the agencies never bother to get them released from the prison of Pakistan”.

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Turkish FM meets Hamas chief over Palestinian rift

Ahram Online

Turkey's foreign minister met late Wednesday with the leader of the Hamas movement in Syria to press for reconciliation between feuding Palestinian factions, Anatolia news agency reported. 

Ahmet Davutoglu said he held talks with Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal at the Turkish embassy in Damascus, where he was on a visit to discuss unrest shaking Syria, following a telephone call with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas last week. Abbas is leader of the rival Fatah faction.

"It is positive that both sides want that national reconciliation is secured as soon as possible," Davutoglu said in the Syrian capital, according to Anatolia.

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Ex-CIA officer accused of leaks about Iran seeks dismissal of most counts

The Republic

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former CIA officer charged with leaking classified documents about agency programs in Iran to a reporter is asking a judge to toss out the bulk of the charges.

A hearing is scheduled Friday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., in the case against Jeffrey Sterling of O'Fallon, Mo.

Sterling was an officer from 1993 to 2002 and spent part of that time on the CIA's Iran Task Force.

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Pakistan: Intelligence Agencies Warn Next Target Could Be Islamabad

Online News Network

ISLAMABAD: Intelligence Agencies on Tuesday warned Interior Ministry that after Dera Ghazi Khan, terrorists could target Islamabad. 

According to Intelligence Sources, Intelligence Agencies informed Interior Ministry that they have got information that five persons would try to sneak into capital, out of which two persons will be on motorcycle and the rest three on car while their ages are said to be in between 18-25 who could target Islamabad. 

Sources told Online that following such threats, Federal Capital Security is kept on a high alert hence metropolis is said to be envelope in security blanket. 

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US Army Personnel Barred From Leaving Pakistan

Gulf News

Islamabad: Islamabad has barred some US military personnel from leaving the country due to expired visas and other irregularities in their documents, a report said on Tuesday.

The newspaper Dawn reported that some sources said between 20-30 persons had been denied permission to leave, while others sources put the figure at around 100.

The move comes just three weeks after a Pakistani court freed Raymond Davis, a US official arrested for gunning down two men in Lahore, following payment of blood money in accordance with Sharia law. 

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Pakistan lambasts world powers' nuclear duplicity

UNITED NATIONS,  (APP): Drawing the United Nations’ attention to perils of major powers’ contradictory, discriminatory and vague approach to nuclear and security issues, Pakistan has called for transparent and uniform application of policies towards goals of non-proliferation, disarmament and sustainable peace. “A multitude of disputes and conflicts are lingering. The pursuit of  doctrines and policies of containment, balance of power, unilateralism and preemption by global and regional powers, have combined to make the world a much more dangerous and unstable place than ever before,” Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Abdullah Hussain Haroon warned.

 

He was making a statement at the 2011 Substantive Session of the United Nations Disarmament Commission.

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A Planned Sectarian Wedge By Foreign Intelligence Agencies In Pakistan

Ashraf Javed [The Nation, Pakistan]

LAHORE – Days after leading religio-political leader Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman survived two bomb attacks within 48 hours in the northwest, foreign-funded terrorists struck the shrine of renowned Sufi saint in Dera Ghazi Khan on Saturday, which left more than three dozen devotees dead and injured over 100 others.

During background interviews, intelligence sources and police investigators revealed that “it seemed a well-thought-out plan hatched by anti-Pakistan elements to create sectarian strife among the people of this country”. Three suicide bombers struck the shrine of Sakhi Sarwar near DG Khan District of southern Punjab, where thousands of devotees had converged to celebrate the annual Urs of the Sufi Saint. The far-flung area is considered a stronghold of militants. Security experts say some foreign forces are openly funding the terrorist and militant outfits to destabilise nuclear-armed Pakistan as the security forces are at war to flush out militancy from the country.

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People’s Aman Committee Arrested in the act OF ‘Militant’

KARACHI: 

The Crime Investigation Department claimed to havearrested an alleged militant while he was planting explosives at the Garden Police Headquarters. The police said the suspect, Abdul Qadir Kalmati, also known as Raketi, son of Abdul Rehman, was working under the umbrella of Lashkar-e-Balochistan IS BELIEVED TO BE SISTER GROUP OF People’s Aman Committee (PAC).

The gang Kalmati is allegedly associated with is involved in over half a dozen terrorism case s and target killing in Karachi.

CID officials said he was planning to blow up the headquarters when they intercepted him. His accomplices, however, managed to run away in the chaos that ensued as both sides opened fire at one another.

They also seized four bombs with detonators, each containing a kilogramme of highly explosive material, and a TT pistol from the spot.

Later, Kalmati told the police where the gang was storing other ammunition. A raid at a place near the Kathore Mor led the police to the goldmine of weapons, where they found 107 dynamite sticks, four electronic detonators, an anti-tank mine, a BM rocket and 10 remote-control switches.

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Facebook & Google are CIA Fronts

A collection of links that prove the point.

In the case of both Google and Facebook, three talented students in their 20's came out of obscurity to establish multi-billion dollar enterprises. Do you suppose they had some help?

BY SANDEEP PARWAGA

(FOR HENRYMAKOW.COM)

There used to be a saying: ''No one makes a name for himself without giving something up''

As a youngster, I was awed by people who ''made it to the top'' by creating and innovating corporations, technologies, or simply establishing themselves through sports, music, entertainment, etc. thus becoming millionaires.

Now as I have grown older, I realize how illusory this paradigm really is. I came to the conclusion that if you want to reach the ''top',' you have to give up your soul. 

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Brahamdagh Bugti may not get asylum in Switzerland

Imran Mukhtar [The Nation (Pakistan)]

ISLAMABAD - Baloch separatist leader Brahamdagh Bugti is unlikely to succeed in getting political asylum anywhere in the European or Scandinavian countries due to evidence for his alleged anti-state activities in Pakistan, The Nation has learnt reliably.

Brahamdagh Bugti, chief of Balochistan Republican Party and grandson of slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bughti, is presently in Switzerland and Pakistan through Foreign Ministry has opposed his application for political asylum submitted with the Swiss authorities.

An official of the Ministry of Interior on condition of anonymity said that the government had ample proofs against Brahamdagh for his alleged links with some insurgent and terrorist groups of Balochistan. He also informed that Balochistan government and the security agencies had provided sufficient evidence of his involvement in terror activities in the province to the federal government.

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US obsession for global monopoly

Brig. (R) Asif Haroon Raja [Pakistan Observer]

The US past and present gives credence to the fact that there is no other country matching its destructive game play. The US used incendiary bombs against German cities in 1942 and adopted it as a strategy. Both the US and British air forces carried out massive night bombing of Dresden in 1945 resulting in 55000-250,000 casualties. Florence city was reduced to rubble within hours. It is the only country which forced Japan to surrender by dropping atom bombs on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and causing deaths to millions. Living beings of these unfortunate countries suffer from nuclear after affects even today. Atomic bomb option was used at the fag end of 2nd world war in 1945 as means of pre-empting its invasion of Japanese heartland, which was sure to cause very heavy American casualties. In Hiroshima instant deaths were 100,000; the toll later rose to 200,000. In Nagasaki, 40,000 died instantly while 150,000 died eventually. 330,000 people perished in conventional aerial incendiary bomb attacks.

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China's air force steps up modernization drive

Xinhua

BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Chinese air force has stepped up its modernization efforts in order to "satisfy the strategic requirements of conducting both offensive and defensive operations," says a white paper on the country's national defense on Thursday.

The modernization and transformation of the Air Force of the People's Liberation Army follows a "carefully-structured plan," says the white paper, issued by the Information Office of the State Council, or Cabinet.

The air force strengthens and improves its development and personnel development strategies, and enhances its research into the operation and transformation of air forces in conditions of informationization, it says.
The air force conducts training on "confrontation between systems in complex electromagnetic environments, and carries out maneuvers, drills and operational assembly training in different tactical contexts," it says.

The air force also strengthens routine combat readiness of air defenses, "taking the defense of the capital as the center" and "the defense of coastal and border areas as the key," it says.

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Fitting China in India's security plan

South Asian News Agency

NEW DELHI: India-China relations have invariably taken the form of either hair-raising scare-mongering or ideological foaming at the mouth. The examples immediately coming to mind are a paper titled “China as a main threat to India’s security” posted on the Web site of the Peace and Collaborative Development Network and an article in the Indian Defence Review, “Nervous China may attack India by 2012”.

For some, the very mention of the country’s name instantly excites hostility and hatred simply because of its Communist ideological moorings and its non-democratic, one-party regime. This is regardless of China being no longer a classical communist state. Actually, its “market socialism” has many features of capitalism.

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Pakistan Navy hands over command of anti-piracy fleet to Singapore

DAWN

KARACHI: Commodore Abdul Aleem of Pakistan Navy has handed over the command of Combined Task Force-151 to Rear Admiral Harris Weng Yip Chan of Singapore Navy after an eventful period of four months.

The change of command took place onboard HMS Cornwall alongside the USS Mason, the command ship for the incoming CTF-151, in Djibouti.

According to a Pakistan Navy press release, CTF-151 is a multinational task force operating as Counter Piracy (CP) segment of Combined Maritime Forces Headquarters in Bahrain. CTF-151 conducts counter-piracy operations under the UNSC resolutions to curb piracy in the Gulf of Eden, North Arabian Sea and Somalia Basin.

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Karachi Police Interlinked with Extortion Mafia in Lyari & Saddar Town

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Abayomi Azikiwe: CIA Trying To Destabilize Africa

Press TV

Press TV interviewed Editor of Pan-African News Wire Abayomi Azikiwe who believes that the United States and other Western countries, under the guise of a humanitarian effort, are justifying the war in Libya in order to preserve their economic and military policies in the Middle East.

The following is a transcript of the interview with Azikiwe.

Press TV: This news about CIA operatives on the ground in Libya. How do you respond to that? 

Azikiwe: It is really not surprising. We have felt since the beginning of the uprising that the Central Intelligence Agency was playing a key role in the whole process of not only coordinating but financing and providing political covers for the rebels who are fighting against the Libyan government.

The CIA has a history in Africa since World War II by getting involved in all destabilization efforts against progressive governments and against the national liberation movement.

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India Unleashes Menacing Campaign Against Pakistan

Pakistan Observer

Islamabad—Living under a threat, Pakistani community in Bahrain is confronting a menacing campaign unleashed by Indian officials and intelligence agencies by cleverly turning the Shia-Sunni tension against them in the unrest in the Kingdom. 

According to reports revealed by leaders of Pakistani community on telephonic contact and expatriates visiting Pakistan , houses of Pakistanis are being marked for attack and hatred is being created against them by Indians using some leaders of Shia community. 

The Indians are spreading the propaganda that Pakistanis working in security establishments of Bahrain had been deployed to attack Shias. This poisonous and dangerous move has two objectives – to “demonstrate” that Pakistanis are not wanted in Bahrain and second is to damage Pak-Iran relations. This is the Indian agenda being carried out in Bahrain cleverly, the leaders of Pakistani community said.

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Pakistan Army Conducts Successful Military Exercises In Khudai Ranges

Express Tribune

Multan: Pakistan army conducted successful war exercises in the Khudai range near Muzzafargarh. Large scale use of tanks, artilleries and other weapons was made in the exercises.

At the occasion, Corps Commander Multan Lieutenant General Shafqat Ahmad said the army was required to remain alert to face challenges at the country’s eastern border, and to operate against terrorism. He said the armed forces of Pakistan were capable enough to guard the country’s frontiers. Ahmad also visited the semi-desert Khudai Ranges near Muzzaffargarh and witnessed exercises conducted by armour, infantry and artillery troops. The corps commander also reiterated that Multan troops played a significant role in “Operation Labbaik”, which ensured appropriate rescue and rehabilitation of displaced persons from Southern Punjab. 

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Massive cyber attack hits 1.5 million sites, Internet users cautioned

Chris Nerney [IT World]

That being said, this item in the BBC about a cyber assault called the "Lizamoon attack" appears legitimate. It had better be, or I will attack Websense and the BBC every day, with great vigor, for the rest of my life.

Here's what the BBC reports:

Security firm Websense has been tracking the attack since it started on 29 March. The initial count of compromised sites was 28,000 sites but this has grown to encompass many times this number as the attack has rolled on.

Websense dubbed it the Lizamoon attack because that was the name of the first domain to which victims were re-directed. The fake software is called the Windows Stability Center.

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