Posted by Sumera On Saturday, more than 85 people including men, women and children were killed and at least 200 wounded when a large explosion shook Quetta, the capital of restive Balochistan province. The explosion occurred near a market at the busy Kirani Road area of the city, located near Hazara Town, where a large population of the ethnic Hazara community resides. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi immediately cla ...

 by Rosey  Following the death of her boyfriend about a month ago, country singer Mindy McCready was found dead in her Arkansas home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. As the investigation into her death continues, and friends and fans alike continue to pay tribute to the late star, we took a look back on McCready's turbulent, troubled and sometimes tremendous life. Private investigator who work ...

by Zaheerul Hassan Majlis-e-Wehdat-e-Muslameen (MWM), Unity Council of Quetta, Shia Ulema Council, All Pakistan Shia Action Committee have called for an end to the nationwide protests and sit ins condemning the Quetta bombing on Tuesday. The Shia leader Allama Amin Shaheedi made this call while addressing the media alongside Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira.   Kaira was heading a six member government mission to ...

Posted by Tomy Francis By executing the Kashmiri in the way that it did, the Indian government has decided to fuel the process of destabilisation  Mohammad Afzal Guru Supporters in in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administrated Kashmir, of various political religious parties, take part in a demonstration to condemn the hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guru. Photograph: Amiruddin Mughal/Reuters What are the pol ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi THE Siachen dispute has exacted a toll. A study by Dr Ghulam Rasul of the Pakistan Meteorological Department entitled Climate Data and Modelling Analysis of the Indus Ecoregion warns that the Siachen glacier has been reduced by 5.9 kilometres in longitudinal extent between 1989 and 2009. A ‘Siachen proposal’ was formulated some months ago at Lahore by a group of retired military of ...

Humanity May Not Survive Obama's Second Term  By Stephen Lendman Multiple previous P5+1 talks were held. America manipulated them to fail. So did Israel covertly. Western nations were pressured to go along.  On February 26, new talks will be held in Almaty, Kazahhstan. Expect no more this time than earlier.  It bears repeating. Tehran's nuclear program isn't at issue. It's red herring cover for imperial aim ...

By Simon Denyer IMPHAL, India — Tens of thousands of Indian troops are deployed to these remote borderlands, their mission to fight a decades-long armed separatist rebellion. But for years, residents here have alleged that security forces have also waged a separate war of rape and murder of civilians, one they continue with impunity because federal law virtually prohibits the prosecution of soldiers in conf ...

Asif Haroon Raja Creation of Pakistan on August 14, 1947 broke the century old shackles of bondage. Although a moth-eaten and truncated Pakistan, yet it was the largest Muslim nation in the world. Seventy million hearts of Pakistanis throbbed and pulsated with rapturous excitement and joy. The unfurling of the green and white banner raised their heads with pride and their jubilation knew no bounds. Their re ...