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 ...

Kashmir: Paradise on Earth or a Nuclear Flashpoint By Laura Schuurmans After the partition of India under the British Empire in 1947, Pakistan and India became two independent nations. The treaty of partition was based on the ‘Two Nation Theory’ which clearly stated that all parts of India with a Muslim majority would become part of Pakistan and those with a Hindu majority would become part of Hindustan, to ...

by Shaiq Hussain With a sense of urgency on their minds, top US officials have begun crucial talks with Pakistani authorities for the withdrawal of thousands of US-led foreign troops and military equipment from Afghanistan through NATO supply lines. While the US authorities are engaged with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Qatar and other facilitators of peace talks with the Taliban, they have started important talks ...

By Team SAI  The recent decision of Pakistan to handover the strategic Gwadar Part to a Chinese Company (Overseas Part Holding) from Singapore’s PSA (Port of Singapore Authority ) has ended speculations of Pak-China  Collaboration in the Arabian Sea. However, it is too premature to conclude that this would convert into a Chinese naval base anytime soon. Naysayers precluded Chinese keenness based on the grim ...

Asif Haroon Raja In the 1965 Indo-Pak War, Indian military overwhelmingly superior in men and equipment wanted to crush Pakistan but failed because of the stubborn resilience of the Pak military and unity of Pakistani nation and over cautiousness of Indian forces. Their cautious approach in Lahore and Sialkot sectors helped the Pak forces in wresting the initiative. India therefore changed its strategy and ...