A Senate investigation accuses the Army of turning a blind eye when a Blackwater subsidiary hired violent drug users to help train the Afghan army and declared “sidearms for everyone” even though employees weren’t authorized to carry weapons.
The inquiry by the Senate Armed Services Committee found that contractors for Paravant, the Blackwater subsidiary under investigation, [...]
President Obama’s inaugural pledge to defeat Al Qaeda and Taliban appears in stark contrast to the ground realities in Afghanistan. Obama’s much hyped AF PAK policy is believed to have been practically castigated to history after multiple reviews. The US military’s assessment of the war in Afghanistan too paints a bleak picture. The Taliban today [...]
“Blackwater Worldwide’s legal woes haven’t dimmed the company’s prospects in Afghanistan, where it’s a contender to be a key part of President Barack Obama’s strategy for stabilizing the country,” the AP reported recently.
Now called Xe Services, the company is in the running for a Pentagon contract potentially worth $1 billion to train Afghanistan’s troubled national [...]
We didn’t need the ratification of Robert Gates that the infamous murderous organization like Blackwater is operating in Pakistan. Islamabad, Karachi and Peshawar have become dens of Blackwater and though our interior minister is still unaware of their presence, media is screaming hoarse about their activities.
Senior investigative journalists of GEO news and Jang has disclosed [...]
The three US soldiers who lost their lives on Wednesday in a school bombing incident in Dir Lower were members of the Army Special Forces, which has been training the Frontier Corps to improve its intelligence and combat tactics to effectively fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban insurgents in the Pak-Afghan tribal belt.
It is for the [...]
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has admitted the presence of Blackwater in Pakistan and suddenly ANP’s Mr Bilour has also confirmed that Blackwater is in Pakistan with the permission of the Government. Now why did Mr Rehman Malik continue to swear that there was no Blackwater in Pakistan and if he was proven wrong, he [...]
Pakistan’s foreign office has `dismissed US newspaper’s article over the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear assets’. It termed the assertions made in the article `utterly misleading and totally baseless’. The FO’s rebuttal was obviously aimed at Seymour M. Hersh’s article “Defending the Arsenal: In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe? The author had [...]
Inter Risk, the US security company which was banned in Pakistan, paid millions in bribes to Pakistani officials — and one staffer close to a minister has confessed that he received these bribes to issue 138 prohibited bore weapon licences.
The PS of the state minister for interior has already landed in jail for allegedly receiving [...]
In reality Taliban does not exists in Pakistan maybe in Afghanistan where they were launched by CIA/ISI/MI5 against Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
The black water does all the ugly works for the CIA and other US/ISREAL agencies and creating havoc in our country.
The biggest blunder was done by Gen.(R) Pervez Musharaf who has sided with the [...]
Private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in clandestine CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Blackwater’s role points to a much deeper connection between the company and the spy agency than has been previously disclosed and raises concerns over the legalities of involving contractors in the [...]
