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 ...

By Sajjad Shaukat After the Kirani Road incident which killed more than 100 persons of the Hazara Shias in Quetta on February 17, this year, a controversial debate continues in our country, while, some politicians and media anchors have been blaming security forces and intelligence agencies about the Hazara carnage, deteriorating law and order situation of Balochistan province including overall phenomena of ...

Posted By Rida Zaheer Growing shiitake oyster mushrooms for Michael Alt’s family’s restaurant proved to be a tricky operation in snowfall manic Syracuse, NY. Maintaining ideal conditions required a complicated set-up of seemingly endless triggers, humidifiers, fans, dehumidifiers and miscellaneous controls.   At his day job, Alt was making radar technology for the US Department of Defense as a software engi ...

Posted by Sumera Friday, February 22, 2013 - Since the advent of 2013, Hazaras of Quetta have been targeted with impunity, being killed mercilessly as if their lives were of no consequence. Prior to 2013, too the Hazara community has been hunted down, being off loaded from passenger buses and vehicles and slaughtered like animals. The January 10 massacre resulted in the death of over 100 innocent victims bu ...