By CLIFFORD KRAUSS HOUSTON — The United States is increasing its dependence on oil from Saudi Arabia, raising its imports from the kingdom by more than 20 percent this year, even as fears of military conflict in the tinderbox Persian Gulf region grow. The increase in Saudi oil exports to the United States began slowly last summer and has picked up pace this year. Until then, the United States had decreased ...

By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — Shimon Peres, Israel’s president and elder statesman, spoke out Thursday against the prospect of a lone Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, a message that contradicts the hawkish, go-it-alone line emanating from the offices of Israel’s prime minister and defense minister. The president’s comments came amid a wave of speculation in Israel and abroad that Prime ...

By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_2585" align="alignright" width="194"] Kamra Air Base[/caption] Nine armed terrorists equipped with guns and rocket launchers attacked Pakistani air force base before dawn (2:00 Am) on 16 August 2012. Air Force commandos successfully countered and killed all terrorists. The base is known as home to the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex that assembles Mirage and, with Ch ...

By Sajjad Shaukat A Gallup survey for the UK international official body, Department for International Development (DFID) conducted on July 20, this year, revealed that the vast majority of the Baloch people oppose the idea of an independent Balochistan. According to the survey, 67 percent of the people of Balochistan including Baloch and Pashtuns, oppose independence and support greater provincial autonomy ...

A new Alawite state could redraw the map of the Middle East. by Michael J. Totten An Arab country that’s pro-Western and has a non-Muslim majority? Though it sounds like something that could exist only in an alternate universe, there’s a chance that such a state could emerge from the ongoing conflict in Syria. Alawites make up only 12 percent of the Syrian population, but they overwhelmingly dominate the re ...

ATTOCK: Seven heavily armed militants stormed the Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) Minhas airbase at Kamra during the early hours of Thursday, sparking an intense gun battle lasting almost five hours. The militants were said to be armed with automatic weapons, grenades and suicide vests. Intense exchange of fire between militants and security forces ensued after the attackers infiltrated the base, located in Atto ...

Posted  By : Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_2570" align="alignright" width="226"] Syria[/caption]   A NUN who has been superior at a Syrian monastery for the past 18 years has warned that media coverage of ongoing violence in that country has been “partial and untrue”. It is “a fake”, Mother Agnes Mariam said, which “hides atrocities committed in the name of liberty and democracy”.   Supe ...

  "ROBBED" SIKH NATION, "annexed" TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE, ON 15th AUGUST DAY, 1947, THE BLACK DAY FOR THE SIKHS & MINORITIES [caption id="attachment_2566" align="alignright" width="153"] Sikh Nation Faced brutality in June 1984[/caption] Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki)*   Just before the end of 15th August, 1947, the "annexed" Sikh Nation, PUNJAB to the British Empire on 29th March, 1849, the Sik ...