Declan Walsh, "Pakistan: We Are No Longer
Your Killing Field," Guardian, March 27, 2008
Bruce Loudon, "Pakistan opposes US nuke oversight," Australian, April
16, 2008
[Washington has demanded direct access to Pakistan's Nuclear Command
Authority (NCA), the body that controls the country's nuclear weapons. To
show that it will not take "no" for an answer, Washington has posted an
officer at its embassy in Islamabad to liaise with the NCA. Other demands
include allowing US personnel to enter Pakistan on the basis of national
identity (such as a driver's licence), foregoing visas and passports;
accepting US licences, including arms licences, in Pakistan; US personnel
being allowed to bear arms and wear their uniform in Pakistan; and exemption
of American personnel from Pakistani law if they commit a crime. There are
close parallels between these demands and those that were imposed on Iran
during the Shah's rule, which led ultimately to the Islamic Revolution in
Iran (1978-79).--Waseem Shehzad, "US intensifies its
control over Pakistan's new civilian government," muslimedia.com,
May 2008]
"Pakistan army takes
issue over U.S. missile attack," Reuters, May 17, 2008
Declan Walsh, "Father
of Pakistan's bomb disowns smuggling confession," Guardian, May 30, 2008
"Pakistan slams US after air
strike kills 11 soldiers," AFP, June 11, 2008
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, "Whatever Happened
to Democracy Now!," counterpunch.org, June 11, 2008
[The Pakistani ambassador in Washington was put on notice early this month
that the U.S. would 'retaliate' if America suffered such an attack. No less
than the U.S. military's highest ranking officer, Admiral Michael Mullen,
came out to drive the point home. Part of the concern is that Washington is
exaggerating Al Qaeda's capabilities and that Pakistan could end up
entrapped in a manufactured crisis that serves American strategic objectives
that do not match Pakistan's. The American 'retaliation' in this case would
definitely mean an invasion of our territories. And the ground is being
prepared for this. Karzai's blunt threat was more than just a case of a
roaring mouse. It is no coincidence that Pakistan is facing renewed nuclear
blackmail at the hands of U.S. media reports that make serious allegations
without naming the U.S. government officials behind them.--Ahmed Quraishi,
"Is
Pakistan Ready For Another 9/11?," analyst-network.com, June 25,
2008]
"Pakistan
Bombards Suspected Taliban Hideouts," New York Times, June 28, 2008
[Late last year, top Bush administration officials . . . drafted a secret
plan to make it easer for the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch
missions into the snow-capped mountains of Pakistan to capture or kill top
leaders of Al Qaeda.--Mark Mazzetti and David Rohde, "Amid
Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan," New York Times, June 30,
2008]
[Now, as resistance to the US-led occupation of Afghanistan intensifies, the
increasingly frustrated Bush administration is venting its anger against
Pakistan and its military intelligence agency, Inter-Service Intelligence,
better known as ISI. . . .
President George Bush angrily asked Pakistan's visiting prime minister,
Yousuf Gilani, 'who's in charge of ISI?' An interesting question, since all
recent ISI director generals have been vetted and pre-approved by
Washington.--Eric S. Margolis, "
CAN'T WIN IN AFGHANISTAN? BLAME PAKISTAN," New York Times, August 4,
2008]
[This dictator mistreated the whole nation for the delight of his foreign
allies - U.S. CIA, Israeli Mossad, British MI6, Indian-Hindu RAW and Hamid
Karzai Mafia, etc. - and even I could not escape his victimization. He
deceived me in the first place and later put me into [illegal]
detention.--Abdul Qadeer Khan, "U.S.
Seeks Control Over Pak Nukes!," Press TV, August 24, 2008]
[At least 20 people were killed and 25 others injured Monday after several
missiles fired by unmanned U.S. Predator drones hit a religious school and
the house of a powerful Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan, . . .
The strike Monday marked the fifth cross-border incursion by U.S. forces in
about a week.--Shaiq Hussain, "U.S. Strikes Taliban Stronghold in
Pakistan," Washington Post, September 8, 2008]
Andrew Buncombe, "US 'wants to guard Pakistan's
nuclear arsenal'," Independent, November 11, 2009