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 ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi In the post cold war era, India diversified its relationship with major world powers. Although, Indo-US relationships has always been cordial, but, following the disintegration of former Soviet Union, there was new warmth in this relationship. The incident of 9/11 further brought both countries closer to each other. After this unfortunate incident, US declared India as its natural ...

 Venezuelan nation will never forget  their leader  Hugo Chavez who put the country on track and always preferred to live with dignity and houner. His revolutionary steps really changed the life style of  the masses. The article "Hugo Chavez Frias, Rest in Power: Eres de los muertos que nunca mueren! " written by Daniel is posted here  for readers consumption .  (By Zaheerul Hassan) By Daniel Patrick Welch ...

Asif Haroon Raja While George W Bush led regime of neo-cons had initiated the insane war on the pretext of 9/11 attacks, Obama administration took no steps to wind down the war after taking over in January 2009 by which time the futility of war and hidden motives had been exposed. Rather, the Democrats accelerated the war and introduced drone war to further fuel terrorism. Under the cover of war on terror, ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Protests and demonstrations by the Shia community enveloped almost all the country in reaction to the deadly twin blasts which killed more than 50 people, and damaged various buildings on March 3, this year in the Shia-dominated Abbas Town of Karachi. Next day, Sohrab Goth area of Karachi turned into battlefield with heavy exchange of fire after the four mourners of the burial procession w ...

The Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers are funding a project that uses crowdsourcing to improve how machines analyze our speech. Even more radical: Darpa wants to make systems so accurate, you’ll be able to easily record, transcribe and recall all the conversations you ever have. Analyzing speech and improving speech-to-text machines has been a hobby horse for Darpa in recent years. But this takes it a step fu ...

By Hari Singh India established a dedicated external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Founded mainly to focus on China and Pakistan, over the last forty years the organization has expanded its mandate of breeding terrorist activities all over the world especially in Afghanistan. ...