Maen Rashid Areikat With the US administration’s foreign policy team shaping up and planned visits by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to the Middle East, there are renewed hopes for movement on the political process. While welcoming these developments, we believe the effectiveness of the US role in the region hinges on a robust and sustained policy, pushing towards the resolution of ...

Posted by Irshad Belharvi On February 17, 2013, the Hazara community in Quetta was bombed and shocked by picking 84 persons dead and injured in hundreds. On the following day, February 18, 2013, a terrorist attack was perpetrated at the political agent’s office on Bara Road, Peshawar. This quandary also gave the gift of 6 causalities to the people of Pakistan. Accordingly, following the first sadistic event ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Pakistan since its inception remained in chaos including internal and external contradictions that made it unstable and insecure both at national and international level. Regrettably, the dynamical consequences of international War on Terror (WOT) and absence of national parameters to combat the hazardous menace of terror campaign along with transnational terrorist organizations, n ...

By Franklin Lamb Iran is expected to meet with other world powers in Astana, Kazakhstan to discuss its nuclear program. Discussions that the occupiers of Palestine fervently hope will not be successful. It is toward this end that their key demand this week to the US Congress, the White House and the European Union is “to cast responsibility on the Iranians by blaming them for the talks’ failure in the clear ...

By Elizabeth Dinan A former tenant of the Feaster Apartments public housing building is being held on $25,000 cash-only bail for a pair of felonies alleging he twice raped a disabled neighbor. tenant verification Charged with two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault is Paul Fierley, 50, who police said was evicted from the public housing building in January, due to “his behavior toward other reside ...

Posted by Vineeza Gul Monday, February 25, 2013 - In a period of less than two months, Hazara community was targeted for the second consecutive time causing massacre of over two hundred people altogether. On January 10, 2013, over hundred innocent Hazaras were killed through two bomb blasts and on February 16, 2013, massacre of another over ninety Harazas was caused through another powerful blast of explosi ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Monday, February 25, 2013 - There is an overwhelming perception backed by intelligence-based statements of the government functionaries that target killing of members of different sects, especially the Shiite, is part of the game to divide the Pakistani society. To keep Baluchistan on boiling point is also in the interest of those international players who are against Iran-Pakistan ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On February 24, 2013 a serving Indian Army Col Ajay Chowdhary, Public Relation Officer (PRO) and Spokesman to its Army was arrested on Sunday for carrying drugs in Manipur.  According to TV reports, Col Ajay was arrested with five other people’s red handed for carrying drugs worth Rs 30 crores market value.   Arrested persons also include an Assistant manager of the leading airline in the ...