Reuters Wed, Mar 4 Pakistan policemen stand guard outside Gaddafi stadium after a shooting in Lahore March 3, 2009. Pakistani police hunted on Wednesday for gunmen who mounted the bold attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team in Lahore and officials scrambled to figure out who was behind it. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza

Lahore Attack: an Object Lesson in the Horrors to Come

The Intelligence Daily | Apr 06, 2009 | By Tom Burghardt

Monday’s brazen assault on a police academy in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city and cultural capital, is a grim reminder that the “killing season” has begun in earnest across Central- and South Asia.

At least 13 police recruits were killed and another 100 wounded, according to Dawn.

The Lahore assault followed the horrific Jamrud mosque suicide bombing March 27 in the Khyber Agency that killed upwards of 80 people during Friday prayers.. . . read more

A fate too horrible to contemplate… yet we must!

World’s hungry ‘close to one billion’

Financial Times, By Javier Blas, Commodities Correspondent Published: December 9 2008 10:04

The food crisis has pushed the number of hungry people in the world to almost 1bn, in what the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation described on Tuesday as a “serious setback” to global efforts to reduce mass starvation.

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It doesn’t have to be this way.

WORLD FOOD DAY: Eating Less, Paying More

By Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (IPS) – Despite wall-to-wall media coverage of the financial crisis rocking the U.S. and, increasingly, other financial systems around the world, a crisis with a larger scope is brewing with little attention.

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Not So Delicate Balance

New intelligence report says Pakistan is ‘on the edge’

By Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — A growing al Qaida-backed insurgency, combined with the Pakistani army’s reluctance to launch an all-out crackdown, political infighting and energy and food shortages are plunging America’s key ally in the war on terror deeper into turmoil and violence, says a soon-to-be completed U.S. intelligence assessment.

A photographer walked among Humvees during a ceremony at the transfer of U.S. equipment to the Afghan Army this year on the outskirts of Kabul. (Musadeq Sadeq/The Associated Press)

U.S. pushing through dozens of foreign weapons deals

By Eric Lipton Published: September 14, 2008 WASHINGTON: The Bush administration is pushing through a broad array of foreign weapons deals as it seeks to re-arm Iraq and Afghanistan, contain North Korea and Iran, and solidify ties with onetime Russian allies.

Map showing location of North and South Waziristan in northern Pakistan and bordering on Afghanistan (Map courtesy Thaddeus P. Bejnar, Wikipedia)

President Bush authorises US ground operations inside Pakistan

By Peter Symonds 12 September 2008 — In a reckless and criminal attempt to suppress the growing insurgency in Afghanistan, President Bush has secretly authorised the use of US Special Forces against targets inside the border areas of Pakistan. The first publicly acknowledged operation took place on September 3 when helicopter-borne soldiers landed at a village in South Waziristan, attacked three compounds and slaughtered at least 20 people.