Fin du secret diplomatique ? Documents WikiLeaks. Cable Search BETA. Pakistani media publish fake WikiLeaks cables attacking India | World news. Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari with army chief General Ashfaq Kayani. Pakistani newspapers have written much about Zardari's preoccupation with death but little about the army. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images They read like the most extraordinary revelations. Citing the WikiLeaks cables, major Pakistani newspapers this morning carried stories that purported to detail eye-popping American assessments of India's military and civilian leaders.
According to the reports, US diplomats described senior Indian generals as vain, egotistical and genocidal; they said India's government is secretly allied with Hindu fundamentalists; and they claimed Indian spies are covertly supporting Islamist militants in Pakistan's tribal belt and Balochistan. "Enough evidence of Indian involvement in Waziristan, Balochistan," read the front-page story in the News; an almost identical story appeared in the Urdu-language Jang, Pakistan's bestselling daily. But senior judges favour their publication. S Comprehensive WikiLeaks Timeline. As we mentioned before, "Wikileaks was not a story, but an ongoing continuum of stories... It's a story that is destined to keep on giving. " In that short time since that post, it has indeed done just that. WikiLeaks -- its actions and the reactions to them, the implications of what has happened around the whistle-blowing site -- has given birth to an extremely complex and ever-changing situation.
In lieu of summing up a situation that has not come to a tidy conclusion, we have put together a full timeline of WikiLeaks news and analysis from our site. Read through from our earliest coverage (February, 2008) to our most recent (today) and you should have a reasonably complete sense of why WikiLeaks is important. WikiLeaks, Censorship and the Watchdog Web February 18, 2008 Wikileaks Calls for Help in Taking Whistle Blower Site to the Next Level November 28, 2008.
Wikileaks and Publishers to Partner on Whistleblower Stories October 9, 2009 “Iceland establishes strong free-speech laws. US embassy cables: browse the database | World news. Cablegate Chronicles: Kazakhstani Elites Have Hobbies - The Editors - International. This is an installment from our on-going series on the adventures of American diplomats and the people they monitor. The red button below will take you to another random episode. A U.S. ambassador details the hobbies of Kazakhstan's political elite. FROM: ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN TO: STATE DEPARTMENT DATE: APRIL 17, 2008 CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIALSEE FULL CABLE¶1. (C) Kazakhstan's political elites appear to enjoy typical hobbies -- such as travel, horseback riding, and skiing. Not surprisingly, however, they are able to indulge in their hobbies on a grand scale, whether flying Elton John to Kazakhstan for a concert or trading domestic property for a palace in the United Arab Emirates.
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