Good mornin’, here’s your morning linkage…

Mali

• Pascal Fletcher provides a good analysis of the challenges ahead for the French-led intervention in Mali.
• Angelique Chrisafis also examines the domestic stakes and neo-colonial implications of Mr. Hollande’s War.

Saudi Arabia

• The Saudi government beheaded a maid, who was a minor employed for two weeks when a child in her care died.  She was tried without legal representation.  Executing a minor is a violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to which Saudi Arabia is a signatory. Forty-five other maids are on death row, some for charges including witchcraft and sorcery.
  

Afghanistan

• Kate Clark at AAN parses the language of the latest Obama-Karzai meeting, particularly for what it doesn’t say about democracy and women’s rights.
  

Pakistan

• Tensions continue in Kashmir between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control.
• Meanwhile, Governor’s rule has been imposed in Balochistan after a terrorist attack killed at least 92 in Quetta.  Here’s a timeline of Hazara killings in Balochistan. (h/t Ahsan Butt)

Webistan

• Aaron Swartz kills himself; JSTOR issues a statement.