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 ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat  Under the pretext of American so-called counterinsurgency programme, the US President Barack Obama has broken all the record of human rights by extrajudicial killings of the innocent people through CIA-operated drone attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen in general and Pakistan in particular, while, the United States claims to be protector of human rights not only inside the country ...

By Rida Zaheer At least 30 people were killed and 150 wounded in the latest attack on February 22 which came days after another attack killed another 30, including 15 children. According to Syrian leadership activists are being supported against Bash-al-Assad by U.S. and Israel. In this connection, Nuland also pointed to the brutality of the attacks to reiterate calls by President Barack Obama for President ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Hazara community is about 600,000–700,000, out of which 0.6 million    predominantly comprise the Shia population of Quetta and are concentrated in Hazara Town of Quetta. Carefully calculated data reveals that about 1200 Hazaras have been killed from 1999-2012.  Particularly, in 61 attacks of 2012, 116 have been killed and 89 injured. But the start of 2013 added the government concerns, w ...