By Murtaza Hussain Friday, March 08, 2013 - In his letters, Guantánamo Bay prisoner Shaker Aamer appeals in desperation to his captors and the outside world: “Please … torture me in the old way. Here they destroy people mentally and physically without leaving marks.” The 44-year-old British resident and father of four has spent over 11 years incarcerated at Guantánamo despite being cleared for release as ea ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Friday, March 08, 2013 - On 8th March of every year, we celebrate International Women’s Day to wish the women in the fullness of what it means and to celebrate their achievements and struggles. Woman’s is an integral segment of society by playing a vital role in building the society on healthier and stronger foundations. No country or society can prosper or even survive without the ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi This is with the reference to a press report that says “At least 45 people have been killed and more than 145 others sustained injuries after two consecutive blasts ripped through a thickly populated area near Abbas Town on Sunday. The blasts took place at a residential area outside a mosque near Abbas Town on Abul Hassan Ispahani Road. Police said the first bomb, attached with a m ...

By Rida Zaheer According to ISPR, the 158th Corps Commanders’ Conference was held at General Headquarters on Thursday. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani chaired the meeting. Apart from professional military matters, the meeting under took a comprehensive review of internal and external security environment of the country. The meeting also discussed the law and order situation in Karach ...

Posted By Rida Zaheer Syrian rebels seized 21 U.N. peacekeepers from the Philippines on 6 MARCH 2013 in a bid to convince President Bashar al-Assad pull back from a rebel-held village near the Golan Heights. In a video posted to the Internet, a man claiming to be the spokesman for the rebel Martyrs of Yarmouk Brigades said that his men will hold the peacekeepers until Assad's forces withdraw from Jamlah, wh ...

A leaked U.S. Army document prepared for the Department of Defense contains shocking plans for “political activists” to be pacified by “PSYOP officers” into developing an “appreciation of U.S. policies” while detained in prison camps inside the United States.   The document, entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations (PDF) was originally released on a restricted basis to the DoD in February ...

By: Shamshad Ahmad In an unlettered society where one rarely comes across people genuinely into writing or reading and where books are sold not by content but by weight as a waste paper commodity and where book stores are disappearing fast getting converted into video shops or burger stands, the arrival of every single new book by a Pakistani author is freshening expression of a resolve not to give up the b ...

Huma Rehman Ali Ardashir Larijani, the speaker of Iranian parliament in an interview to TV channel announced that Iran was a nuclear power. Though he qualified the statement by saying that Iran would always use nuclear power for peaceful purposes, Larijani’s statement has raised a number of questions. Does the statement mean that Iran has mastered the nuclear technology but has taken a political decision no ...