By Robert Dreyfuss The United States is slipping and sliding down that proverbial “slippery slope” in Syria toward something that looks increasingly like war. Most worryingly, according to The New York Times, the CIA is training Syrian fighters in Jordan. Buried in its story today about Secretary of State John Kerry’s announcement that the United States will increase aid to the rebels, including medical sup ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Saturday, March 02, 2013 - Senator Chuck Hagel has sworn in on Wednesday as Secretary of Defence replacing Leon Panetta, who has been a source of pain for Pakistan, first as CIA chief and later as Secretary Defence. Of course, Chuck Hagel is likely to pursue the policies of the government, but it appears that President Obama wants to change his policy with regard to Israel and Iran ...

By Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal The withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan in 2014 certainly has decisive impact on both Afghanistan’s domestic situation as well its relations with its neighboring states. Afghanistan’s internal political environment will inescapably transform, once the foreign troops depart from the country. The makeover of new Afghan ruling elite would determine and chalk out Kabul’s forei ...

Posted by Tommy Francis Sunday, March 03, 2013 - US Secretary of defense designate Chuck Hagel suggested in a previously unreleased 2011 speech that India has for many years sponsored terrorist activities against Pakistan in Afghanistan. In a speech, delivered at Oklahoma’s Cameron University, Chuck Hagel said: “India for some time has always used Afghanistan as a second front, and India has over the years ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Monday, March 04, 2013 - United States has its fixed policies and objectives, which always revolves around its national interests. This is irrespective of the fact that who guards the White House; Democrats or Republicans. In the context of South Asia or Subcontinent, there is yet another misperception that some officials within the US administration are either pro-India or pro-Pak ...

 By Asif Haroon Raja   Apart from hostile eastern border which has remained a chronic security concern for Pakistan since its inception, Pakistan’s western border has also remained a source of constant irritation and anxiety. To begin with, settled issue of Durand Line was willfully converted into a dispute and Pakhtunistan stunt was played up with the help of former NAP later renamed as ANP. Khan Brothers ...

By Sajjad Shaukat A recently released video by Washington Free Beacon pointed out that the US new Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel disclosed during a speech at Oklahoma’s CameronUniversity in 2011, “India has always used Afghanistan as a second front” and “has over the years financed problems for Pakistan on that side of the border.” Earlier, the then NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. McChrystal had revea ...

By Felix Imonti March 01, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - "OilPrice" -  Russia is back.  President Vladimir Putin wants the world to acknowledge that Russia remains a global power.  He is making his stand in Syria. The Soviet Union acquired the Tardus Naval Port in Syria in 1971 without any real purpose for it.  With their ships welcomed in Algeria, Cuba or Vietnam, Tardus was too insignificant to be de ...