News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 75
RIGHTS-US: Fate of Guantanamo Detainees Still Murky
- Inter Press Service
Human rights groups are hailing reports that President-elect Barack Obama plans to issue an executive order on his first full day in office directing the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. But they are urging him to provide details on when and how it will be done and what will happen to those now imprisoned there.
U.S.: Bush Foreign Policy Legacy Short of Disastrous
- Inter Press Service
While in a farewell press conference Monday George W. Bush once again expressed the belief that his eight-year presidency, particularly his foreign-policy record, will be vindicated by history, the portents are not particularly good.
US-AFGHANISTAN: Bagram, Worse Than Guantanamo?
- Inter Press Service
While millions know that the administration of George W. Bush has left Barack Obama with the job of closing the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, relatively few are aware that the new president will also face a similar but far larger dilemma 7,000 miles away.
RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Awaiting Gitmo's Closure
- Inter Press Service
'I’ve thought a lot about what my first meeting with my father will be like after all these years. I don’t know how I’d react. I don’t even know what to expect,'' said Muneeza Paracha, 26, daughter of Saifullah Paracha, incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay since September 2004.
POLITICS: Bush Plan Eliminated Obstacle to Gaza Assault
- Inter Press Service
Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair elections for the Palestinian parliament and was still the leading faction in a fully legitimate government.
INDIA: Delivers Diplomatic Ultimatum to Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
India’s Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Monday that his government has delivered a dossier to Pakistan containing evidence of the involvement of Pakistanis in the Mumbai massacre -- an act that strategic experts say amounts to an ultimatum to bring the perpetrators to Indian justice.
INDIA/PAKISTAN: Prisoner Release Brings Hope
- Inter Press Service
As the New Year dawns, the repatriation by India of 66 Pakistan nationals brings hope for hundreds of Pakistanis and Indians incarcerated in prisons across each other’s countries -- and for peace between the South Asian neighbours.
PAKISTAN: Like Other Assassinations Bhutto's Remains a Mystery
- Inter Press Service
'The chapter is closed, and the Pakistan People’s Party [PPP] is dead. It doesn’t matter who killed her,' said Mohammad Sharif, a young driver working for a voluntary agency, referring to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination on Dec. 27 last year.
RIGHTS-US: 'Bad Apples' Didn't Fall Far From the Tree
- Inter Press Service
On the heels of a bipartisan Congressional report blaming high-level officials of the George W. Bush administration for employing harsh interrogation techniques on detainees captured in the 'global war on terror', many of the world's most respected civil libertarians are calling for the establishment of an independent commission to investigate the alleged abuses.
RIGHTS-INDIA: New Anti-Terror Laws Draconian Say Activists
- Inter Press Service
Following the late November terror attacks in Mumbai, India has passed two tough laws being seen by rights activists as potentially eroding the country’s federal structure and limiting fundamental liberties.
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