Summary here and here.

Hundreds of people staged a protest in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan following civilian killings during a raid by the US-led coalition forces.

The protesters brought six bodies to block a main road from Jalalabad to Torkham, a town bordering Pakistan, witnesses said.

The demonstrators alleged all the six killed were civilians and demanded coalition forces to immediately release the eight persons detained in the raid. Article

The initial reports were scant, herewith some more information on what is an apparent strangulation of supply lines.

Supplies of oil to US and Nato troops in Afghanistan may be disrupted after truckers angry at high taxes and extortion sealed a key route from Pakistan, a press report said on Sunday.

Hauliers that have blocked traffic at the Torkham crossing point near the Pakistani city of Peshawar since Friday are seeking to bring tanker firms into the dispute, commercial transporters told the Dawn newspaper.

The US forces in Afghanistan were unable to comment on the impact of the strike on their oil supplies but noted that the blockade was organized on the Pakistani side of the border.

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Landlocked Afghanistan receives most of its imports via the Pakistani sea port of Karachi. More than 350 trucks reportedly carry an average of 7 000 tons of goods each day from Peshawar to Kabul and eastern and northern Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass.

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Scores of trucks have had to dump cargoes at warehouses in Peshawar because of the protest, which has disrupted supplies to eastern and northern Afghanistan. As well as oil, many other goods used at foreign military bases are trucked in from Pakistan.

Supplies to southern and western Afghan provinces are sent through the Pakistani city of Quetta and across the Chaman border point in the Balochistan province. Companies working the route say they encounter fewer problems and are not planning to strike. Article

Yet more confusion and acrimony in Canada:

The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission had heard rumours that Taliban fighters captured by Canadians may have been mistreated in local jails, but failed notify the Conservative government, says the agency’s Kandahar manager.

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While he has been unable to verify claims that Canadian-captured prisoners were abused, Noorzai has, however, documented other cases of suspected toture involving prisoners handed over to the country’s notorious intelligence service - the NDS- by the Afghan Army.

But once again, Noorzai said, Canadian officials were not made aware of those instances, which occurred in 2004.

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Since agreeing to take on responsibility for Canadian detainees, Noorzai said he has spent most of his time fighting for access to the jails of the notorious Afghan intelligence service, where prisoners are only supposed to be held for a few days. His staff of seven had only been able to get into the civilian prison system.

Both the Canadian and Afghan governments, through that country’s ambassador in Ottawa, have denied the humans rights group faced any barriers. Ambassador Omar Samad insisted on Thursday that he was unaware of any problems and suggested Noorzai had not asked to be let in to the NDS jails. Article

Oy.

Things are shaping up to be make for one really ugly week.

Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan is set to attract world attention again next week as a fresh dossier on his nuclear black market network is being made available to the international media in London that might unleash a new storm for Pakistan.

The fresh dossier might put Iran under more pressure than Pakistan, as it is said to focus on the activities of Khan’s nuclear network and its links with Iran to prove it helped Tehran facilitate its own nuclear facilities.

The international press, particularly based in London, Washington and New Delhi, might find a lot of juicy stuff about Pakistan on May 2 from this dossier to report and establish yet again that in addition to certain countries like Iran, North Korea, and Libya, now even terrorists were capable of getting nuclear weapons from black markets like one that was operated by Khan.

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The IISS has now claimed that Khan was not the only nuclear arms merchant and Pakistan was not the only country implicated in his shadowy network. It spanned three continents and eluded both national and international systems of export controls that had been designed to prevent illicit trade. This highlighted concerns that nuclear technology was no longer the monopoly of the industrially advanced countries, but possibly can be purchased off-the-shelf by both states and terrorist groups.

Meanwhile, it has been claimed that the IISS dossier provides a comprehensive assessment of the Pakistani nuclear programme from which the Khan network emerged, the network’s proliferation activities, and the illicit trade in fissile materials. Article