A suicide bomb in Muzaffarabad, in Pakistan-administrated Kashmir, killed at least 15 and injured over 100 in an attack on a Shi’ite religious procession marking the Ashura holy period.
A House committee has launched an investigation into claims that US military contractors in Afghanistan are paying the Taliban to guarantee the safety of their transportation convoys.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court struck down the National Reconciliation Ordinance that granted President Asif Ali Zardari and 8,000 other government officials immunity from corruption charges.
Citing the “biohazard” created by blood-stained money, a judge sentenced Ellen Barfield of War Resisters League to 25 days in jail for a protest at a Senate hearing on Afghanistan.
Hundreds of women, many carrying pictures of relatives killed by drug lords or Taliban militants, marched in Kabul, demanding that President Karzai purge his government of war criminals.
The latest US drone strike in Pakistan is reported to have not killed a supposed al-Qaeda leader whose death, capture, suicide and escape have been repeatedly reported in a maze of media accounts.
The open letter to the Nobel Committee protesting Obama’s prize as he escalates in Afghanistan is signed by Sara Flounders of the International Action Center—a supporter of war criminals and genocide.
A Pakistani judge demanded the Interior Ministry reply to a petition requesting disclosure on the activities of Blackwater in the country, alleging a corporate role in the relentless terror attacks.
Opposition Afghan member of parliament Malalai Joya warns, “If Barack Obama heralds an escalation of the war, he will betray his own message of hope and deepen my people’s pain.”
The Karzai government’s amnesty offer to the Taliban reveals again the hypocrisy of US claims to be defending democracy, secularism and women’s rights in Afghanistan.
The Afghan attorney general announced that two cabinet ministers are being investigated on corruption charges—a week after President Karzai vowed in his inaugural address to fight corruption.
Richard Colvin, a former diplomat with Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, testified that all detainees transferred to Afghan prisons were likely tortured—and many of them were innocent.
