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	<title>The Statesmen &#124; Media you can Believe in &#187; EDITOR&#8217;S SPECIAL</title>
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		<title>Leaked document discloses CIA plans to target European public opinion over Afghan war</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/leaked-document-discloses-cia-plans-to-target-european-public-opinion-over-afghan-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/leaked-document-discloses-cia-plans-to-target-european-public-opinion-over-afghan-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[COLUMNISTS' VIEWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDITOR'S SPECIAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since their 2007 launch, the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks have been the subject of “hostile acts” by state and private security services for spilling the beans on crime, corruption and violence perpetrated by the capitalist deep state. But rather than being deterred by government threats or overt acts of violence, including the murder of two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>332 terror hits claimed 5,704 lives since 9/11 drama</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/332-terror-hits-claimed-5704-lives-since-911/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/332-terror-hits-claimed-5704-lives-since-911/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[TERRORISM & CRIME]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proxy War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tewrr]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The extent to which Pakistan has borne the brunt of the US-led &#8220;War against Terror&#8221; can be gauged from the fact that during the last 102 months since the 9/11 episode, the country has averagely been rocked by terrorists every 10th day during this period, which has witnessed 332 terrorism-related incidents inflicting 5,704 deaths till [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We in the Third World still suffer from VIP culture virus</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/we-in-the-third-world-still-suffer-from-vip-virus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/we-in-the-third-world-still-suffer-from-vip-virus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[COLUMNISTS' VIEWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDITOR'S SPECIAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Corruption Updates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIP Culture in Pakistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=12724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why must I continue to dwell on the VIPs? Only because they are a social evil number one. We need an antidote to the virus they suffer from, found only in the Third World. It&#8217;s been largely eradicated from the developed world. Anyone inventing a cure deserves the Nobel Prize. The disease is as fatal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American-Blackwater conspiracy to isolate &#8220;Frontline State&#8221; Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/american-blackwater-conspiracy-to-isolate-frontline-state-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/american-blackwater-conspiracy-to-isolate-frontline-state-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[COLUMNISTS' VIEWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDITOR'S SPECIAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blackwater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=12367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn’t believe my ears when responsible quarters informed me of an American-Blackwater conspiracy to isolate Pakistan. According to this heinous plan the objective will be achieved by infiltrating the media, specifically through placing people in responsible positions in the print and electronic media. These plants will then be made responsible for freaking out ordinary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economic Elite vs the People of the United States of America</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/the-economic-elite-vs-the-people-of-the-united-states-of-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/the-economic-elite-vs-the-people-of-the-united-states-of-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[COLUMNISTS' VIEWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDITOR'S SPECIAL]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=10786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight. – Michael Lind, To Have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In search of much needed constitutional reforms in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/in-search-of-much-needed-constitutional-reforms-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/in-search-of-much-needed-constitutional-reforms-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[EDITOR'S SPECIAL]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=10781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The self-styled and inappropriately named “Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms” has been trying to keep itself in the news lately. It was formed in June last year and given the job of making recommendations to implement the Charter of Democracy. It has been in existence for eight months but is still far from completing its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flaws in measuring inflation by Pakistani government</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/flaws-in-measuring-inflation-by-pakistani-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/flaws-in-measuring-inflation-by-pakistani-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ECONOMY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDITOR'S SPECIAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy Watch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=9720</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Measuring inflation is a tricky job. Controlling it is trickier. No government can come up with inflation data that is believable for all. And inflation cannot be checked effectively if the mechanism used for measuring it suffers from structural flaws. But efforts must be made to record changes in the actual cost of living of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PCB &amp; Pakistan Cricket Politics: The inside sotry</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/pakistan-cricket-board-pcb-the-inside-sotry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/pakistan-cricket-board-pcb-the-inside-sotry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRICKET NEWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDITOR'S SPECIAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crickinfo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=9608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For all those still scratching their heads, wondering why our cricketers do what they do, the time has come to rest easy: the greatest unsolved mystery after The Bermuda Triangle and Who Killed JFK has in fact been solved. The clues were always there, they just had not been presented to the public in court. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Aafia Siddiqui: Victimized by American injustice</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/dr-aafia-siddiqui-victimized-by-american-injustice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/dr-aafia-siddiqui-victimized-by-american-injustice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=9516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 3, a Department of Justice press release headlined “Aafia Siddiqui Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of Attempting to Murder US Nationals in Afghanistan and Six Additional Charges.” At her scheduled May 6 sentencing, she “faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each of the attempted murder and armed assault [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from a past master, Prof Howard Zinn</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/lessons-from-a-past-master-prof-howard-zinn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/lessons-from-a-past-master-prof-howard-zinn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[EDITOR'S SPECIAL]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Socialism & Communism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=9366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people — to paraphrase the radical British poet Adrian Mitchell — ignore most history because most history ignores most people. It is traditionally the domain of ‘great’ people: conquerors and kings, statesmen and generals, prophets and pioneers. Other people — the overwhelming majority — don’t get much of a look in. At best they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIG-Gate: US Treasury Secretary involved in the world’s greatest insurance heist</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/aig-gate-the-world%e2%80%99s-greatest-insurance-heist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/aig-gate-the-world%e2%80%99s-greatest-insurance-heist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=9492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rumor has it that Timothy Geithner is on his way out as Treasury Secretary, due to his involvement in the AIG scandal that is now unraveling in hearings before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Bob Chapman writes in The International Forecaster: Each day brings more revelations of efforts of the NY Fed and Goldman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saleem Safi: Confessions of an ex-Jihadi: Afghan Jihad, Taliban, ISI and Our Hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/saleem-safi-confessions-of-an-ex-jihadi-afghan-jihad-taliban-isi-and-our-hypocrisy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/saleem-safi-confessions-of-an-ex-jihadi-afghan-jihad-taliban-isi-and-our-hypocrisy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=10185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A must read article by Saleem Safi exposing the hypocritical and misleading notions of jihad and Islam concocted and used by the ISI, the so called Afghan Jihadis, Taliban and their supporters in Pakistan. The article exposes the un-Islamic and opportunistic character of Hameed Gul, Sami-ul-Haq, Fazlur-Rehman, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Zia-ul-Haq and other pro-jihadi elements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti &amp; Media Censorship &#8211; The Anti-Empire Report</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/haiti-media-censorship-the-anti-empire-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/haiti-media-censorship-the-anti-empire-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[EDITOR'S SPECIAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti earthquake]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=8775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In America you can say anything you want — as long as it doesn’t have any effect. – Paul Goodman Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A poor man’s woes</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/a-poor-man%e2%80%99s-woes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/a-poor-man%e2%80%99s-woes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=8623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The poor man is under tremendous stress as a result of numerous economic hardships including high unemployment, inflation, scarcity of essential commodities, and limited ability of the state to target welfare services. These hardships often prompt those who hold welfare of a common man close to their heart to question the relevance of issues that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming the Taliban with open arms</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/welcoming-the-taliban-with-open-arms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=8630</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week the U.S. Government began floating the idea of welcoming low and mid-level Taliban defectors into its war on terror against Al Qaeda. After waging an eight-year “dirty war” against the Taliban, U.S. military commanders and politicians are publicly acknowledging their “insurgent” enemy is actually part of the “fabric” of Afghan society. U.S. and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shazia&#8217;s Murder: Vivid reminder of the powerlessness of the poor in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/shazia-murder-vivid-reminder-of-the-powerlessness-of-the-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/shazia-murder-vivid-reminder-of-the-powerlessness-of-the-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The death already seemed like a bitter injustice. A maid died after unexplained injuries she got in the house of her rich employer. But one detail in particular has outraged Pakistanis: she was 12. Her employer — a lawyer and a former head of the Lahore Bar Association — says she fell down stairs, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identity crisis haunts Pakistani youth!</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/identity-crisis-haunts-pakistani-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestatesmen.net/?p=7800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After going through the Herald magazine’s annual issue, which this year included a survey on Pakistani youth, I was compelled to write about the identity crisis plaguing the youngsters of this country today. Pakistan’s turbulent history has widened, rather than resolved, the contradictions present in our society, leaving society as polarised as ever. The young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reversing history</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/reversing-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leszek Kolakowski, the Polish-born Oxford philosopher who passed away last year, left behind a striking insight: “We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.” This is a message of tough love for countries such as Pakistan to whom history has not been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli spy agency Mossad&#8217;s history of state-sponsored political assassinations</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/israeli-spy-agency-mossads-history-of-state-sponsored-political-assassinations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel’s spy agency Mossad and the country&#8217;s special forces have carried out a number of assassinations of Palestinian militants in the past and have also been blamed for killings which the Jewish state has never publicly taken responsibility for. In addition, the army and air force have carried out so-called ‘targeted killings’ of numerous Palestinian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need of an alternative leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/need-of-an-alternative-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics is a dirty business. Electoral politics particularly, in a society like ours which is sharply divided on provincial, tribal, religious and clannish lines. Crudely put, this is for two reasons. One, areas of the Indian subcontinent that became Pakistan share the same legacy with other parts of South Asia which is derived from caste-based [...]]]></description>
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