Seven people are dead after a Nato supply convoy heading for Afghanistan was attacked by militants near Pakistan’s capital Islamabad.
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Duration : 0:2:9
Jun
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Apr
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It will be the largest global gathering on US soil in 65 years. President Barack Obama’s two-day nuclear security summit, involving 47 countries, gets under way in Washington DC on Monday.
On the sidelines of what is expected to be the biggest gathering of world leaders led by a US president since the signing of the UN charter in San Francisco in 1945,
Obama will hold bilateral meetings with several leaders, including Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani, respectively the prime ministers of India and Pakistan.
The US administration is trying to balance its policies in Afghanistan with the rising ambitions of the two neighbours.
Robert Wirsing, an South Asia security analyst and professor of international politics at Georgetown University’s Doha campus, explained the challenges facing the US to Al Jazeera’s Imran Garda.
Duration : 0:6:33
Apr
6
Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui has been found guilty of trying to kill US military personnel and FBI agents in Afghanistan two years ago.
Siddiqui has vehemently denied all charges against her during the trial, calling them ‘ridiculous’ and insisting that she was framed, jailed and tortured by US agents in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Siddiqui was accused of grabbing a US warrant officer’s M-4 rifle in a police station in Ghazni province in 2008 and firing two shots at FBI agents and military personnel while being interrogated for her alleged possession of documents detailing a ‘terrorist’ plan.
In March 2003, Siddiqui vanished in Karachi, Pakistan with her three children. It was reported in local newspapers that she had been taken into custody on terrorism charges.
Many political activists believe she was Prisoner 650 of the notorious US detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, where they say she was tortured for five years until the US authorities claimed in an announcement that they had found her in Afghanistan.
Recorded February 04, 2010 at 0800GMT
Duration : 0:4:19
Mar
22
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Duration : 0:27:1
Mar
19
Khaled Ahmed – political analyst, journalist and editor of several major Pakistani newspapers such as The Nation, The Frontier Post, and The Friday Times – discusses the struggle between radical and reformist schools of Islam and the rise of religious fundamentalism in Pakistan. He explains in detail: (a) the ancient clash between orthodox and reformist thinking; (the former believe in a literal reading of Quran while the latter emphasize contextual interpretation); (b) the factors responsible for regression in Muslim societies from free-wheeling thought to medieval orthodoxy; (c) the impossibility of economic development under implementation of Sharia (ie. medieval jurisprudence); (d) the ideology of the Pakistani state and late General Zia-ul-Haqs motivation in Islamizing society; (e) the role of Saudi Arabia and CIA in introducing radical (ie. Wahabi) Islam in Pakistan during the Afghan war against Soviet Union; (f) the spillover of Afghan “jihad” into Indian Kashmir via Pak military and intelligence groups; and (g) the ability of Western countries to help bring about change in Pakistani Establishment’s thinking and policies. This interview was recorded in February 2002 but is still very relevant today.
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Duration : 0:10:15