Eric Margolis Secretary of Defence is the second most important and the toughest job in the US government after President.Since the 9/11 attacks, US foreign policy has become highly militarised. The Pentagon today dominates US relations with the rest of the world, not the State Department or CIA. The Pentagon’s 2013 total budget will be $800 billion when all programmes, including ‘black’ projects, are inclu ...

by Major John Evans   MY previous experience in Pakistan included looking down on Peshawar from the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan and receiving some rocket fire from the eastern side of the border while in Asadabad. Despite this, I was aware that the media’s portrayal of Pakistan was not entirely accurate and I was looking forward to my stay at the Command and Staff College in Quetta. However, I never could ha ...

 By Chris Francescani For more than a week, jurors in the federal kidnapping conspiracy trial of so-called New York "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle have been exposed to talk, imagery and video detailing extraordinary brutality against women. On Tuesday, defense attorneys are set to begin presenting their case but jurors will not get a chance to hear from Valle himself, according to Stephanie Cirkovich, spokes ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Tuesday, March 05, 2013 - There is no doubt that the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan is not just a conflict of unfinished partition plan approved by the King and the British parliament, but history shows it was all done by design and thus a legacy of British colonial rule; today it has a central place in the troubled relationship of the two neighbors India and Pakistan ...

Some say Kargil was Pakistan army’s-biggest-strategic-blunder!     by Sethi Mushtaq The Kargil war, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place in between May and July 1999, in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC). The conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (Victory in Hindi) which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil ...

Mohammad Jamil In a front page comment in yesterday’s The Frontier Post, Mst Kamila Hyat referred to the sequence of events taking place in Bangladesh some 40 years after the 1971 civil war as extremely significant. “This is hardly surprising given the scale of the atrocities committed by West Pakistani troops, including the murder of students, the rape of women and plunder of entire villages”, she wrote. T ...

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 ...