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Analysis: NION: Americans Protest Bush's Iraq Policy

Masood Haider | Dawn | October 7, 2002

"As the Bush administration whipped up the anti-Saddam Hussein war rhetoric, the opinion polls in the United States are telling the Republican administration that they don't want any preemptive strike against Iraq." [more]

US Ignored Taliban Killings: Film

STAFF | Dawn | September 1, 2002

"Following an aborted uprising at Mazar-i-Sharif, 7,500 prisoners were taken to a crowded jail in Sheberghan where, according to Afghans interviewed for the film, they were tortured by US Special Forces. After interrogation, thousands of Taliban fighters were stuffed into container trucks, and driven to the Dasht Leili desert. Hundreds suffocated on the way, and the rest were shot by Northern Alliance gunmen in the presence of US troops, and then buried in mass graves, the film charges." [more]

Afghan Supreme Court Upholds Media Ban on Women

STAFF | Dawn | August 31, 2002

"The supreme court of Afghanistan on Saturday backed a decision by state-run media to ban women from singing on the radio and prevent Indian films from being aired in the capital. " [more]

Musharraf for Intensive Troop Training

STAFF | Dawn | July 17, 2002

"The president said by the grace of Almighty Allah the armed forces had the capacity to not only defend every inch of the motherland but also to strike a telling blow to anyone who dared to challenge the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country." [more]

Troops Shifted from Afghan Border

STAFF | Dawn | May 24, 2002

"US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed here on Friday that Pakistan has moved some troops away from its border with Afghanistan to its border with India since the escalation of tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad." [more]

EU Seeks to Firm Anti-Terror Commitment from Pakistan

Shadaba Islam | Dawn | May 18, 2002

"Europe's External Relations Commissioner arrives in Islamabad early next week with a clear message for President Pervez Musharraf: stamp down harder on terrorism and keep Pakistan on track for democracy." [more]

Tales of Terror

EDITORIAL | Dawn | February 14, 2002

"The American media may still debate which prisoners captured in Afghanistan qualify for 'prisoner of war' status, but there is now little doubt left that these prisoners and their families have been ill-treated by the US troops. At least three leading American newspapers have recently broken stories of excesses by the US troops rounding up suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban men in Afghanistan, before flying them off to the US base in Cuba." [more]

Taliban Supporters Massacred, Travelers Say

STAFF | Dawn | December 11, 2001

"Reports said that over 400 non-Afghan Taliban fighters, mainly Arabs, had been trapped and massacred by tribal militias in and around Kandahar since the Taliban surrendered Kandahar, Hilmand and Zabul." [more]

Chomsky: US Could Not Convict bin Laden

Intikhab Hanif | Dawn | November 25, 2001

"U.S. scholar Dr. Noam Chomsky on Sunday said America wanted Osama bin Laden dead and not alive because it did not have any proof to get him convicted in a court of law." [more]

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