Mohammad Jamil Wayne Madsen has the spine to expose CIA links with the terrorist groups in his article captioned ‘The CIA’s Islamist Terrorist Network’ published in Strategic-Culture Organization’s online journal. He stated: “The Central Intelligence Agency cobbled together the forerunner of the present Muslim jihadist terrorist network in the late 1970s to battle Soviet troops in Afghanistan…The Haqqanis a ...

 BY C. RAJA MOHAN As the United States and China circle each other in Asia, many in Washington hope and some in Beijing fear that India might become a military counterweight to the middle kingdom. However, two recent visits to Delhi by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie suggest that India's prudent approach is likely to disappoint some of its American supporters ...

By George Friedman For the past several months, the Israelis have been threatening to attack Iranian nuclear sites as the United States has pursued a complex policy of avoiding complete opposition to such strikes while making clear it doesn't feel such strikes are necessary. At the same time, the United States has carried out maneuvers meant to demonstrate its ability to prevent the Iranian counter to an at ...

Strategic Culture Foundation The Central Intelligence Agency cobbled together the forerunner of the present Muslim jihadist terrorist network in the late 1970s to battle Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Throughout the next three decades, the CIA continued to maintain links with the jihadist groups, using them as allies for certain operations and attacking them when America’s «commitment» to the «war on terrori ...

Farooq Yousaf The latest rain of Hellfire missiles fired off CIA-operated drones on targets in Waziristan, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), offer Pakistan another excuse to protest the series of attacks that have killed some three dozen people between August 19 to August 24. The latest string of these multiple strikes on Friday, August 24, left at least 18 people dead, reportedly including ...

Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal Recently launched report of the fact-finding mission to Balochistan by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) stirs up as much anxiety as it radiates a ray of hope. It is too early to say that Balochistan is on its way to recovery; however it will not be an overstatement if we say that it is back from the brink. This is not to undermine the seriousness of the heinous e ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At this critical juncture when Pakistan has continuously been facing target killings, attacks on places of worship, bomb blasts and burning of houses due to growing menace of religious extremism, sectarian and ethnic divisions, needs to spread the values of Sufism among the people. Basically, Sufis love Allah and therefore, love of humanity is the genesis of their doctrine. Sufis like Muhi ...

By Haresh Pandya Until recently, it was considered sacrilegious to speak a word against Sachin Tendulkar, the world's most famous cricketer, who enjoys a God-like status in India, where cricket is practically a religion. Not anymore. His glaring failure in the recent series against lowly New Zealand, when he was out for paltry 19 runs in the first Test in Hyderabad and 17 and 27 in the second in Bangalore, ...