Reports: Pakistan not happy with Obama’s new AfPak strategy; 76 killed in suicide bomb attack in Khyber Agency; Iftikhar Chaudhary resumes duties as Chief Justice; Zardari reiterates PPP’s commitment to bring peace to Balochistan
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    • Reports noted that Pakistan was not happy with President Obama’s AfPak strategy announced on March 27. The US President’s assertion that there would not be any more ‘blank cheques’ for Pakistan was being especially viewed with concern in Islamabad1.

    At least 76 people were killed and over 100 injured in a suicide bomb attack at Jamrud in Khyber Agency on March 27. Several security persons were also killed in the blast which took place in a mosque on the Peshawar-Torkham Highway2.

    Governors’ rule in Punjab was withdrawn after the PPP announced its decision to support the chief ministerial candidate of PML-N. Nawaz Sharif and PM Gilani reconciled their differences after meeting at Raiwind on March 22. Mr. Sharif stated that he would now work with the PPP “for changing the destiny of the nation3.”

    The newly reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary, after taking charge on March 24, vowed to free the judicial system of corruption and restore the rule of law. PM Gilani on his part, addressing the PPP parliamentary party meeting in Lahore on March 25, claimed that it was the PPP which had rescued the federation by reestablishing the judiciary4.

    In other developments, President Zardari, addressing party workers on a visit to Quetta on March 26, reiterated the PPP’s commitment to bring peace to Balochistan5.

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