Pakistani lawmaker says women mentally torture men

A male Pakistani politician has drawn jeers for propose a group to stop the "mental torture" of men by women.Jam Tamachi Unar optional the idea Thursday, after the assembly in Sindh region resolved to create a panel to look into the torment of women in the country's rural areas.

The tender drew shouts of "Shame!" from female get-together members. Most of the women stormed out of the meeting, while several of the men laughed. Unar tell The allied Press that he was only joking but that it's a "vinegary truth that the same way women are tortured in rural areas, men are the victims of cerebral torment in urban neighborhood."

Violence against women is common in Pakistan, partly thanks to patriarchal attitudes and lax law enforcement.

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Pakistan judge blocks any move to hand over US gunman

A Pakistani moderator has blocked any move to hand over to US establishment an American government employee, beneath study for double murder, and place his name on the way out control list.

Tripping US congressmen on Monday asked President Asif Ali Zardari to free Raymond Davis, who was under arrest following killing two Pakistani motorcyclists in broad daylight in Lahore in what the American said, was an act of self-defence.

Excluding a lawyer petition the Lahore high court to block any move to hand Davis over to the United States, filing a implore under public awareness laws.

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US embassy cables: 'Reviewing our Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy'

A number of teams of US Special Forces soldiers have been clandestinely fixed with Pakistani military forces in the ethnic belt, helping to hunt down Taliban and al-Qaida armed forces and co-ordinate drone strikes, the embassy cable reveal.

The numbers concerned are small – just 16 soldiers in October 2009 – but the deployment is of enormous political significance, described in a cable that provides an extraordinary glimpse into underground American operations in the world's most violent al-Qaida hotbed.

The first American Special Forces group of four soldiers was deployed to an old British colonial fort in the northern half of the tribal belt in September 2009, helping Frontier Corps paramilitaries to carry out armaments strikes on a rebellious base.

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Pakistan Arrest Shows New Terror Ties

The staffing of a teenage supposed terrorist in this teeming port city reveal the growing collaboration and spread of the web of radical groups in the region.

On Monday, 14-year-old Mohammad Salaam and two supposed members of the Pakistan Taliban, an radical group locked in a two-year-old war with the Pakistani state, were under arrest by police as they supposedly ready a suicide attack.

Mr. Salaam remains in confinement, but hasn't been exciting. Police said he will be on the loose because he is a minor.

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U.S. Plans Increased Military Aid for Pakistan

The Obama administration is planning to ramp up military hold up to the Pakistani army as part of an effort to influence Islamabad to do far additional to war Islamic militants.

Top U.S. policy makers, who will meet with their Pakistani counterpart in Washington this week, say they hesitation Islamabad will agree in the close to term to mount a major army campaign against al Qaeda-linked militants in their biggest sanctuary bordering Afghanistan, officials say.

In its place, American officials are approaching Pakistan to agree to interim steps to increase force on the militant groups, such as by carrying out more under attack operations using U.S.-trained special operations units, according to officials close to the discussions.

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Taliban set preconditions for formal peace talks

Taliban administrators have busy in periodic, discreet contacts with Afghan and U.S. officials for months but are reluctant to move to formal peace negotiations until the U.S. agrees to a schedule for the withdrawal of all foreign troops, according to a Pakistani cleverness official and members of a newly formed Afghan calm council.

The White House said Wednesday that President Barack Obama ropes attempts by the Afghan government to open calm talks with Taliban leaders, but still wants the rebellious to give up violence and their support of al-Qaida.

Though, press secretary Robert Gibbs said the United States was not taking part in any such talks. "This is about Afghanistan," he said. "It has to be done by the Afghans."

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Still-defiant Times Sq. bomber gets life sentence

A Pakistani settler who tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square was sentence Tuesday to life in prison by a moderator who said she hopes he expend time behind bars thinking "cautiously about whether the Quran wants you to kill lots of people."

A disobedient Faisal Shahzad smirked as he was given a obligatory life term that, under federal sentencing rules, will keep him at the back bars until he dies.

"If I'm given 1,000 lives I will give up them all for the life of Allah," he said at the start of a report that lasted several minutes. "How can I be judged by a court that does not understand the anguish of my people?"

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Pakistan Halts NATO Supplies After Attack

Pakistan has infertile a vital supply way for NATO forces in Afghanistan, following a cross-border NATO air strike that Pakistan says killed three of its military.

Provide trucks and fuel tankers for global troops were lined up at the Torkham boundary post in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region Thursday, hours following the NATO raid - the fourth reported by Pakistani officials in new days. The bulk of provisions for NATO forces in Afghanistan move through Pakistan.

Pakistani officials say the groups were stopped for security causes, except did not give details.

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