Pakistan

‘UK trains armies on its own human rights blacklist’

Press TV – May 23, 2016 The British government is providing military training to the majority of nations it has blacklisted for human rights violations, a new report reveals. In a report published on Sunday, the Independent revealed that 16 of the 30 countries on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)’s “human rights priority” watchlist […]

Pakistan slams US drone strike reportedly killing Taliban chief

Press TV – May 22, 2016 Pakistan has denounced the US drone strike believed to have killed the Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour. In a statement issued to the media, Pakistan’s foreign office said the drone strike was a violation of its sovereignty, adding that information about the drone strike was shared with the […]

American Power Under Challenge

When we ask “Who rules the world?” we commonly adopt the standard convention that the actors in world affairs are states, primarily the great powers, and we consider their decisions and the relations among them. That is not wrong. But we would do well to keep in mind that this level of abstraction can also be highly misleading.
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Washington Will Be Selling F-16 to Pakistan

The information on the U.S. State Department’s agreement to satisfy Pakistan’s request for the purchase of 8 American F-16 fighters with all associated equipment for a total amount of approximately $ 700 million, which appeared in early February caused the predictable negative response in neighboring India and triggered a debate in the U.S. Senate, where the deal was subject to approval.

Drones kill more civilians than manned war planes. Why? That’s a state secret.

PrivacySOS | April 26, 2016 In his first public comments on the US drone campaign in Pakistan, President Obama described it as “a targeted, focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists who are trying to go in and harm Americans, hit American facilities, American bases, and so on.” In 2011, […]

‘Stop Trying to Kill Me’: Man Urges UK, US to Remove Him From ‘Kill List’

Sputnik – April 12, 2016 A man claiming to be on a western “kill list” of people to be targeted by US airstrikes has appealed to both the British and American governments to stop trying to kill him. Malik Jalal, a tribal elder from Waziristan, a border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, says he has been targeted […]