The US: Favouring Freedom or Fuelling Feuds After 9/11?

Americans - one way or the other - have always been influencing the world, may that be economically, politically, from human rights point of view or making peace or war.

Blame India For Karachi Terror

New clues emerge: Suicide attacks against Pakistani Shias in Karachi and Kashmir are unprecedented. There have been no sectarian or suicide attacks in Kashmir before. The attack in Karachi is the first major sectarian assault in five years.

'The US military is exhausted'

The call for over 30,000 more troops to be sent to Afghanistan is a travesty for the people of that country who have already suffered eight brutal years of occupation.

Israel: A Monster Beyond Control?

On the first anniversary of the beginning of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip - in my view it was a demonstration of Israeli state terrorism at its most naked - it's not enough to say that the governments of the Western powers (and others) are complicit in Israel's on-going collect …

Party Time

Listening to President Zardari speaking at the second death anniversary ceremony of his wife Benazir Bhutto one was reminded of Don Quixote—the idealistic blundering knight created by Cervantes.

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Pakistan's Third "Gender-ation"

Pakistan's Supreme Court finally decided in mid-December to strip the immunity from prosecution of more than 800 politicians, including three serving ministers on charges of corruption.

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US-Pakistan partnership: Make it work for both sides

US relations with Pakistan are key to success in Afghanistan. Here's how to bolster them.

Muslims Must Not Pay Price for Europe's Identity Crisis

It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly – in fact to a degree it already has – if the French government doesn't get a grip on reality.

Pak-India Dialogue: The Third Party Window

Notwithstanding the fact that Simla Agreement makes no concession to India on the issue of Kashmir nor compromises Pakistan's Kashmir stance based on UN resolutions, the Indian obsessive insistence on 'bilateralism' has become a major stumbling block in achieving a breakthrough i …

America Needs Pakistan's Help -- Again--III

The destabilization of Pakistan began with the December 2007 murder of Benazir Bhutto after Mark Siegel, her Ashkenazi biographer and lobbyist, assured U.S.

Weak law allowed molester DGP to smile after being convicted

NEW DELHI: If former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore has got away with a six-month sentence for molesting a 14-year-old girl, Ruchika Girhotra, who killed herself three years later while desperately searching for justice, it is mainly due to a glaring lacuna in the 150-year-old  …

Corruption In Afghanistan: American Money Pays, American Jobs Lost, Israel And Karzai Split The Profits

Banned from American "mainstream" news, the Jerusalem Post reports: The Israeli Palsan company won a tender to supply $350 million in armored personnel carriers to soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, Israel Radio reported on Saturday.

The Rape-scape

From politicians, to celebs, to cops and simpletons here's a country of rapists that won't fail you a chow-time whenever you're out to find a place that is most 'Afghanistanly' when it comes to violence against women.

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Pakistani Thermidor?

Churchill characterized Soviet Russia in terms of riddles and enigmas.

THE LEMMING SYNDROME

Lemmings periodically self destruct through mass suicide. This phenomenon has defied explanation and remains a case of irrational behavior in the animal kingdom. More difficult to understand is similar behavior among humans. Take the Pakistan Peoples Party.

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SURVIVAL

The last government in Pakistan was seen as military backed because the President was the Chief of Army Staff! The present elected government is seen as US backed because that is where they seem to be looking for their survival.

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Shutdown hits life in four Andhra districts

Normal life in three coastal Andhra districts and in Rayalaseema was thrown out of gear on Friday as supporters of united Andhra Pradesh observed a total shutdown to protest against the formation of a separate Telangana, as decided by the Government of India.

Indian Nuke Safety & IAEA

Times of India reported on November 30, 2009 about radiation contamination at the Kaiga nuclear plant in Karnataka. The locals residing in surrounding area suffered with heavy damages in the shape of casualties of inhabitants and livestock worth costing in corers.

Liberhan Commission Report: Will Justice Be Served?

It has long been held that justice delayed is justice denied. The 16.5 years that the Liberhan Commission took to produce its report on the Babari Masjid demolition must, in that light, be called a travesty of justice.

India: New attack against a church in Karnataka, the fourth in four days

Stones are thrown at the Grotto of Saint Anthony in the village of Kolaigiri. It is the 66th act of violence against the Christian community in Karnataka.

The race against Obama's deadline in Afghanistan

Adm. Mike Mullen, the personification of American military power, is walking the streets of this dusty village in Paktika province when the deferential deputy governor, Qadir Gul Zadran, tells him: "We hope you stay here forever."

Don't Forget America's Other War

Remember Iraq? For months our attention has been focused on Afghanistan, and you can be sure that the surge will be covered exhaustively as it unfolds in 2010. But the coming year could be even more pivotal in Iraq.

U.S. outlines conditions for aid to Pakistan

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration sought to reassure U.S. lawmakers this week it would demand "maximum accountability" from Pakistan for $7.5 billion in aid and that it had safeguards to ensure funds did not reach extremists.

'Pakistan refusing visas to US officials'

LAHORE: The Government of Pakistan has stopped issuing visas to the United States citizens including US army officials and diplomats, a senior US diplomat said on Wednesday.

Shopian: CBI On A Spree Of Manufacturing Lies

It didn't take a single stroke for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to demolish the allegations of rape and murder in Shopian as a figment of imagination.

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