The Associated Press does an important story about an intensive drone strike campaign by the US military since September 2 in southern Afghanistan and in Pakistan’s North Waziristan that has left 60 persons dead, among them innocent civilians. On Tuesday alone, US drone attacks targeted suspected militants killed some 15 persons in the village of […]
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Pakistan
Top Stories More Important than Quran-Burning Nut Job
The horrible era of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States yielded a one-day silly season on Thursday, covered wall-to-wall by the US cable news channels. The weird cultist Terry Jones, fired from his church in Cologne, Germany last year for abusing his congregants, preaching hate-filled sermons, and demanding absolute obedience, was favored by an unprecedented […]
The Invisible Deluge in Pakistan (Cole in Tomdispatch)
My essay on the strange near-invisibility of the world-historical Great Deluge in Pakistan during the past month is out at Tomdispatch.com (click here). Excerpt: ‘ Today, almost six million Pakistanis are still homeless, and many have not so much as received tents for shelter. In large swaths of the country, roads, bridges, crops, power plants […]
Toll in Quetta Bombing Rises to 65
The death toll rose to 65 in Friday’s deadly suicide bombing of a Shiite rally in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province in Pakistan. The Shiites had been commemorating Jerusalem Day, in solidarity with the Palestinians. The city was paralyzed by a general strike called to protest poor security, and all schools were closed. Most […]
Jolie Appeals for Pakistan Aid as Flood Refugees Return
Angelina Jolie makes a plea for aid for flood-stricken Pakistan: Reuters reports on what returnees to flooded areas are finding when they arrive:
Shiite Procession Bombed in Lahore: 35 Dead, 250 Wounded
Three explosions hit Shiite processions in the old city of Lahore around 7 pm Wednesday, killing at least 35 persons and wounding about 250. The first explosion appears to have been a pre-set bomb, which went off near to the Karbala Gamay Shiite shrine. Two suicide bombers subsequently struck near Bhati Chowk. The attacks occurred […]
Salt Water, Slow Aid threaten Sindhis Displaced in Pakistan
A new danger to Sindh: the flood waters are meeting and mixing with the salt waters of the Arabian Sea, threatening large tracts of fertile land with being ruined for agriculture for many years. Although the floods swallowed up Sujawal, army attempts to divert waters and protect cities, especially Thatta, appear to have meet with […]
Another City Submerged as Floods advance in Sindh;
Where are the Rock Stars?
Remember how I said a little after midnight on Sunday that the city of Sujawal, population 250,000, was threatened by advancing flood waters from broken levees in Sindh? Well, just a few hours later, Sujawal is now under water. That is a city roughly the same size as Fort Wayne, Indiana; Greensboro, N.C., St. Petersburg, […]
One Million Displaced as Rising Waters Threaten Major Cities
AFP reports that Pakistani troops are on a ‘war footing’ in their desperate efforts to save the southern Sindhi city of Thatta from advancing flood waters, as they attempt to repair breaches in levees that have allowed water around the city to rise alarmingly. The 300,000 inhabitants of Thatta have fled, along with 700,000 others […]
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