By PIR ZUBAIR SHAH and ALAN COWELL Published: July 3, 2009 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least 13 people were killed Friday in what was suspected to be an attack by an American drone in a remote village stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, according to two residents reached by telephone.

June 29, 2009 Thousands of Pakistanis march in the southern port city of Karachi to denounce the ‘unwelcome’ influence of the US in the nuclear-armed country. About 10,000 participants, holding party flags, banners and placards, chanted anti US slogans and demanded the government to condemn Washington’s policies on Sunday.

by Pierre Tristam June 24, 2009 “Operation Enduring Freedom is ostensibly being fought to uphold the American Way of Life. It’ll probably end up undermining it completely,” the Indian writer Arundhati Roy wrote in 2001, in “The Algebra of Infinite Justice.” Roy took a lot of grief for that piece from American public opinion, hijacked at the [...]

by Abdul Malik Mujahid May 24, 2009 During the last thirty years of wars in Afghanistan, Afghan civilians have had one safe place to escape to: Pakistan. They fled the Soviet invasion. They fled civil wars. They fled US bombing. Pakistan took care of millions of these Afghan refugees. Now that safe haven with its lush green valleys is [...]

General Tapped by Obama to Lead Afghanistan War Testifies Tuesday By Spencer Ackerman June 1, 2009 A former military interrogator who contributed to the manhunt for a senior Iraqi terrorist has urged the Senate Armed Services Committee staff to press Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the Obama administration’s nominee to lead U.S. troops in the Afghanistan war, on what [...]

By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III May 15, 2009 Under the pretext of responding to the September 11, 2001, attacks in America, the United States and Great Britain invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. They dubbed this invasion Operation Enduring Freedom. President Bush 41 told the American people that the US strikes were, “… designed to disrupt the [...]