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Violence runs through this ’stable’ India, built on poverty and injustice
The country the west loves to call a peaceful, capitalist success has a terrorism death toll second only to Iraq
Pankaj Mishra
(The Guardian) In the past five years bomb attacks claimed by Islamist groups have killed hundreds across the Indian cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Varanasi, […]

August 7
Musharraf faces impeachment bid
(BBC) Pakistan’s ruling coalition parties say they will begin impeachment proceedings against President Pervez Musharraf.
More to worry about than Musharraf
(The Economist) PAKISTAN is sliding. Taliban commanders are taking over more of the country’s ungoverned north-west by the day. America, hitherto a remarkably forgiving ally, appears to think Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) […]

August 1
Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, U.S. Officials Say
By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT
The conclusion that Pakistan’s powerful spy service helped to plan the bombing of India’s embassy has strained relations between the U.S. and a longtime ally.
Afghan violence ripples across region
Monday’s bombing outside the Indian Embassy in the Afghan […]

Feeding the future (IPS news round-up)
The World Bank Group’s New Deal on Global Food Policy

Food security measures should target Africa’s poor, IMF says
African governments looking to mitigate the effects of rising food prices on their populations should look to targeted measures specifically geared towards aiding poor families and avoiding unnecessary […]

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CBC Background on Afghanistan 2008
Robert Galbraith
August 1
Afghanistan spiralling back to days of Taliban, say charities
Terror attacks spreading into areas that were previously thought safe.
(The Independent) Violence in Afghanistan has reached record highs, with unprecedented numbers of civilian casualties and terror attacks spreading into areas once thought safe, a coalition […]

More on Water and on Wednesday-Night.com
Water: A finite resource (with pictures and graphs)
Although water covers 75 percent of the world’s surface, 97.5 percent of the earth’s water is salt water; of the remaining 2.5 percent, most is locked away as groundwater or in glaciers.

Whenever the topic of water comes up, we are reminded of […]

For previous news and opinion see Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and the aftermath and Update

April 30, 2008
Pakistan’s planned accord with militants alarms U.S.
By ERIC SCHMITT AND MARK MAZZETTI
(IHT) With cross-border attacks into Afghanistan on the rise, Washington faces the fact that its options are now even more limited, in part because of the change of […]

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Analysis:Why Afghanistan matters
Rasul Bakhsh Rais
Read complete Editorial of Pakistan Daily Times
Afghan leaders and neighbouring states will have to show greater wisdom, assume more responsibility and resolve imagined and real problems before a frustrated world community turns its back on the country
Three cycles of war, experienced over the past thirty years, wiped out the […]

March 24
The War, The Media, and Ahmed Chalabi

As the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War is marked, and the 4,000th U.S. troop death is reported, an NBC News investigative producer is taking a look back at the man who aided the American cause for war.
In The Man Who Pushed America to War, NBC News investigative […]

Why Pakistan Matters
Washington struggled to come to terms with Bhutto’s death — the White House hoped she would share power with Musharraf and had made her the centerpiece of its latest plan for Pakistan. While the White House continued to back Musharraf’s grip on power as the best near-term […]