Posted by Sumera Sani Thursday, January 03, 2013 - AS Dr Qadri phenomenon surfaced all of a sudden at the heel of the general elections, speculations were rife that he had tacit backing of the Establishment and it is perhaps why the Director-General ISPR Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa has come out with a categorical denial of Army’s involvement in the emerging scenario. In an interview, he said Army stands ...

Posted by Belharvi Sir Creek, a 96km narrow piece of water between India’s Gujarat state and Pakistan’s Sind province, is a contentious issue, which has plagued the two nations for decades. Historically, Pakistan considers it to be its sovereign territory because when a dispute arose between Sind and the Kutch Durbar, in 1914 a settlement was made on the basis of a compromise; the Sind government foregoing ...

Posted by Belharvi EXTREMISM is one thing as a debatable philosophy, and quite another in its barbaric, physical manifestation. Two examples of the latter, as the world exited 2012, were particularly blood-curdling. The Pakistani Taliban killed the 22 Levies they had abducted, and in Nigeria, Boko Haram marauders slit the throats of a number of men, women and children. The Taliban and Boko Haram both claim ...

Posted by P Mukherjee Wednesday, January 02, 2013 - Nothing new or unusual happened on the night 16th December 2012 at a busy road of Delhi as it is a routine affair. But, another daughter of India namely Nirbhaya, a 23 years physiotherapy student belonging to lower caste “Dalit”, was tortured along with her colleague for complete 35 minutes after which she was raped by six persons. Her internal organs were ...

Essam al-Erian says all those who occupied Palestine ‘will have to return to their homelands,’ including Egypt By Times of Israel staff January 01, 2013 "Times of Israel" -- A senior Egyptian official who also serves as an adviser to President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday expressed the opinion that Israel would not be around in 10 years. The remark by Essam al-Erian, the deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ...

By Stephen Kinzer January 01, 2013 "The Guardian" --  What do Nebraska and Iran have in common? Not much – but enough to cause big trouble for former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, whose possible nomination to be secretary of defense is being challenged by the powerful bomb-Iran-yesterday lobby. Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, ...

Posted by Belharvi On December 20, 2012, Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a fair trial legislative bill, authorising the state to intercept private communications to identify and apprehend terrorists, and consequently officially or legally pave the way for the government to tap phones and use text messages and emails as evidence in courts. With this, the concerned authorities can now intercept emails, SM ...

Posted by Tommy Francis Tuesday, January 01, 2013 - Talking to media, Defence Secretary Lt General (R) Asif Yasin Malik on Friday said: “The United States and Britain are against Pakistan’s nuclear programme and the CIA uses ‘foreign agencies’ for its operations in Pakistan. He also claimed that they had ‘complete information’ of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents working in Pakistan, and US had p ...