By Parveen Tarique Given the state of the land of the pure where there is no water, electricity, gas, no law and order, and the army gets caught in the crosshairs of snipers and militants, and fall like nine pins, the powers that be are pushing for bills, like the contempt bill and the proposed dual nationality bill. Reports indicate that the contempt bill has sailed through, and dual nationality has the pa ...

Dr Ahmad Rashid Malik Army-monks Jihad is underway against the Muslims in Myanmar. Nothing is worse than the State-led terrorism against their own people. Another human tragedy is unfolding. Monks have turned to be the cruelest to the Muslims. They are butchering Muslims all over in Myanmar in collaboration with the army. Now Buddhist terrorism is on the rise. The country has become a hell for Muslims who a ...

[caption id="attachment_2282" align="alignright" width="113"] Saudi Arabia[/caption] Posted by  Zaheerul Hassan According to reliable sources , the  recent spate of news floating around the Internet which claim a blast at the Mukhabarat al-Aa'mmah or General Intelligence Directorate of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh are absolutely fake and concocted, said a senior Saudi security official when contacted by this scri ...

Letter to Editor What exactly comes to your mind when you think of Swat? Yes, apples, green meadows, lakes, natural beauty, peace, serenity and the "the Switzerland of the region.” It was a dreamy place for me too, till 2009. It was the year when for the first time I heard about army operation against the Taliban in Swat valley. I was shocked. News like “105 killed in Swat clashes”, “Inside rebel Pakistan c ...

[dropcap color="#000000" font="helvetica" fontsize="14"]The future of the world's largest democracy hinges on how well it integrates its biggest minority.[/dropcap] By SADANAND DHUME India's Supreme Court is this week reviewing whether Muslims deserve affirmative action, and this has once again ignited a debate on how the world's largest democracy treats its biggest minority. India's left-leaning intelligen ...

AFP ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Wednesday it is to sue a British newspaper that claimed to have uncovered a visa scam that could have allowed potential terrorists into the Olympic Village. The Sun tabloid said it had busted a racket involving a politician in the eastern city of Lahore that could have given access to the London Games as part of the Pakistani contingent in return for one million rupees ($10,000 ...

By Anatol Lieven To judge by discussions I had with figures close to the Afghan Taliban in Dubai last week, on certain key issues the Taliban leadership and the US administration are far closer than most analysts believe. The chief obstacle to a peace settlement is likely to come not from Taliban links to al-Qaeda but rather from the question of how to divide up power within Afghanistan. My colleagues and I ...

By Mark Magnier NEW DELHI — A few years ago, Ankur Suri saw a friend beaten up by fellow classmates after he emailed pornography to female friends — or rather, his computer had. In desperation, the friend went to authorities, who declined to investigate because they didn't really understand the problem of how his computer had been infected by malicious spam. "I'd rather go to Google or Facebook than deal wi ...