Posted by Sumera On Saturday, more than 85 people including men, women and children were killed and at least 200 wounded when a large explosion shook Quetta, the capital of restive Balochistan province. The explosion occurred near a market at the busy Kirani Road area of the city, located near Hazara Town, where a large population of the ethnic Hazara community resides. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi immediately cla ...

Posted by Tomy Francis By executing the Kashmiri in the way that it did, the Indian government has decided to fuel the process of destabilisation  Mohammad Afzal Guru Supporters in in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administrated Kashmir, of various political religious parties, take part in a demonstration to condemn the hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guru. Photograph: Amiruddin Mughal/Reuters What are the pol ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi THE Siachen dispute has exacted a toll. A study by Dr Ghulam Rasul of the Pakistan Meteorological Department entitled Climate Data and Modelling Analysis of the Indus Ecoregion warns that the Siachen glacier has been reduced by 5.9 kilometres in longitudinal extent between 1989 and 2009. A ‘Siachen proposal’ was formulated some months ago at Lahore by a group of retired military of ...

Humanity May Not Survive Obama's Second Term  By Stephen Lendman Multiple previous P5+1 talks were held. America manipulated them to fail. So did Israel covertly. Western nations were pressured to go along.  On February 26, new talks will be held in Almaty, Kazahhstan. Expect no more this time than earlier.  It bears repeating. Tehran's nuclear program isn't at issue. It's red herring cover for imperial aim ...

By Simon Denyer IMPHAL, India — Tens of thousands of Indian troops are deployed to these remote borderlands, their mission to fight a decades-long armed separatist rebellion. But for years, residents here have alleged that security forces have also waged a separate war of rape and murder of civilians, one they continue with impunity because federal law virtually prohibits the prosecution of soldiers in conf ...

Asif Haroon Raja Creation of Pakistan on August 14, 1947 broke the century old shackles of bondage. Although a moth-eaten and truncated Pakistan, yet it was the largest Muslim nation in the world. Seventy million hearts of Pakistanis throbbed and pulsated with rapturous excitement and joy. The unfurling of the green and white banner raised their heads with pride and their jubilation knew no bounds. Their re ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi    Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - According to Daoud Sultanzoy, a former member of the Afghan parliament and political analyst, “The U.S. political climate is such that the administration has to show some sort of good news to justify [the troop exit], and that is dictating what is being shown in terms of progress, even if there isn’t any.” President Obama has repeatedly announced tha ...

Staff Reporter Strategic Gwadar Port handed over to China Port to remain property of Pakistan, It will become regional hub of trade: Zardari Strategic Gwadar Port handed over to China Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Islamabad—A signing ceremony was held were Monday to hand over Gwadar Port to a Chinese company. The Chinese company will fully assume the responsibility of Gwadar Port. The port will remain proper ...