Amos Guiora [3] The Israeli movie The Gatekeepers, nominated for an Oscar award earlier this year, serves as extraordinary background for a discussion of critical issues—and not just with respect to the Israel-Palestine conflict. What makes the movie compelling is the direct, unapologetic and reflective manner in which the limits of power is addressed. What makes the movie even more compelling is that six r ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi It is a truth worth studyingt gathered during interaction with grown-ups, and that is: Kashmiri and Pakistani youths share each other’s sorrow and joy, they feel and think alike. They assert they are victims of injustice: social, economic, cultural and political. They hasten to make up their mind to resist a person, or a group, a country or a group of countries, or a self-appointed ...

By Isobel Coleman Pervez Musharraf, former general and president of Pakistan, returned to Karachi after years in exile to contest the country’s upcoming national election expected later this spring. As the election season heats up, many Pakistanis are expressing concern that the anticipated vote will be derailed for one reason or another. Imran Riffat, a former financial industry professional and longtime P ...

By AFP March 23, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"AFP" - The US Central Intelligence Agency has been feeding information to select rebel fighters in Syria to try to make them more effective against government troops, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Citing unnamed current and former US officials, the newspaper said the new CIA effort reflected a change in the administration's approach that aims ...

By Sajjad Shaukat                 Continued subversive acts in the province of Balochistan, arranged by the anti-Pakistan forces coincide with malicious propaganda against the country and its security agencies. In this regard, the main aim of India, US and Israel is to internationalise the Balochistan issue in accordance with their secret agenda. In this respect, in connivance with the Baloch separatist lea ...

NYT: US requested $49 million for new facility for 'special detainees' at detention center  - Andrea Germanos, staff writer Death is increasingly looking like the only way out for detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison. The United States Southern Command [SouthCom] has requested $49 million to build a new prison building at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for “special” detainees on top of other renovations it says ar ...

By Balbir Singh Sooch Or; The mindset is troubling as the facts about the mindset are enshrined in the article, ‘Sanjay Dutt’s punishment & Hindutva mindset’. That 'Pardon won't be easy for Sanjay Dutt': WHY? Why not to satisfy the collective conscience of the society in case of Sanjay Dutt by pardoning him? There should not be any hitch and the restriction should also not come in the way to pardon Sanj ...

By  Bassam Javed It all started in 1939 when Lord Linlithgow, the British Viceroy, declared that India had officially entered into World War II. This war proclamation was done without taking Congress or the Muslim League into confidence. Later, when he talked to political parties on the issue, he failed to garner Congress and Muslim League’s support for the war effort. Britain, to win support of these two m ...