Professor Ali Sukhanver Recently a Bangladeshi judicial tribunal sentenced life imprisonment to Abdul Qader Mullah, a leader of Jamat-e-Islami, for his role during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971. According to the media reports, somewhere in 2010, the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina initiated the process of trying those accused of committing crimes against humanity during the war, u ...

By Franklin Lamb Tehran -- Azadeh, a graduate law student from Tehran University, on the sidelines of Iran’s Third Annual Hollywoodism (www.hollywoodism.orghttp) reminded her interlocutors, of the obvious damming admissions last week by two US politicians: “It would be a defense lawyer’s worst nightmare wouldn’t it? I mean to have one's clients, in this case the Vice-President of the United States and the o ...

Ali Ashraf Khan The Kargil episode that in 1999 involved India and Pakistan in another military adventure and ended with the humiliation of Pakistan has since then boggled the minds of not only Indians and Pakistanis but of people interested in Indo-Pak relations and world politics all over the world as to what was the actual purpose of that adventure that cost the lives of hundreds of soldiers on both side ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Despite the fact that Pakistan’s law-enforcing agencies and intelligence outfits have thwarted many terror attempts of the militants through pre-arrests, discovery of weapons and huge explosive material, suicide jackets etc., but terrorists keeps on targeting the installations of security forces, intelligence agencies and police including government buildings through bomb blasts, suicide a ...

By RT CIA Director-designate John Brennan strongly defended the use of drones for fighting terror suspects as he was grilled by the Senate over one of Washington’s most-criticized policies. John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the new CIA chief, had a tough time answering some questions posed by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. Repeated interruptions by anti-war protesters did ...

 by Balbir Singh Sooch Was and or is always the ‘Competitive Communalism in India,’ the stage managed drama of government of India with the understanding of ‘ the reserved communal non-State actors’ to polarize the Indian society on political, social, economic, caste, cultural etc lines before every, and especially before the major election(s) in India as usual was the practice and accordingly electoral seg ...

By Andrew P. Napolitano After stonewalling for more than a year federal judges and ordinary citizens who sought the revelation of its secret legal research justifying the presidential use of drones to kill persons overseas – even Americans – claiming the research was so sensitive and so secret that it could not be revealed without serious consequences, the government sent a summary of its legal memos to an ...

First letter on the above issue was sent by me to a news paper in October 2003.  It was sent to one Mr Aslam Minhas who did not see eye to eye with the then DGMO, Maj Gen Pervez Musharraf when he presented his “plan” on Kargil much earlier.  Mr Aslam’s comments were that the action done by Gen Musharraf had set back the Indo-Pak peace process by 20 years.  My reply to Mr Aslam was that Pakistan had to act t ...