Asif Haroon Raja So far it was intensely debated whether India or religious extremism cum terrorism was the existential threat to Pakistan’s security. It is now being said that the biggest threat is posed by the ruling coalition subservient to the wishes of Washington. In its near five-year tenure, the PPP led regime has left no stone unturned to destroy each and every institution of Pakistan and to bring b ...

According to investigative journalist Silvia Cattori, the barbaric bombing of Aleppo University on January 15 has been officially claimed by the terrorist group the Al Nousra Front. This confirmation should not come as a surprise to those who have been following closely events in the Levant since March 17, 2011, when unknown snipers opened fire in the Southern Syrian town of Deraa killing several policemen ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Kashmiris are observing Indian repblic day as blackday . In this connction  Senior Hurriyat member and Chairman Islamic Political Party (JK) Mr. Mohammad Yousuf has launched a major protest in Indian occupied Kashmir. At this occasion, the Kashmiris demnded that Indian Forces  to stop brutality against Kashmiris and go back to the barracks . They  very rightly asking global community to f ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While conducting other kinds of subversive activities, foreign hostile elements have also intensified sectarian violence to destabilise Pakistan. In this regard, although target killings and bomb blasts have continued on sectarian basis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Karachi, yet situation of Balochistan province needs special attention where on January 10, this year more than 100 people, a maj ...

M. Umar Farooq Baloch The global energy resources have constantly been depleting. Taking the example of oil, 37% of the world energy need is met through oil and if oil production remains constant until it’s gone, there is only enough oil in the world to last 42 years. The energy crises in Pakistan has aggravated to the extent which has seriously affected the economy and growth besides paralyzing the routine ...

French intervention in Mali will fuel terrorism, but the west's buildup in Africa is also driven by the struggle for resources By Seumas Milne January 24, 2013 "The Guardian" --  To listen to David Cameron's rhetoric this week, it could be 2001 all over again. Eleven years into the war on terror, it might have been Tony Blair speaking after 9/11. As the bloody siege of the part BP-operated In Amenas gas pla ...

Newvision A vicar has been charged with presiding over 492 fake marriages in 16 months – equivalent to one a day. Reverend Nathan Ntege was arrested in June last year following an investigation into sham marriages by the UK Border Agency. The 53-year-old is accused of conducting a string of fake marriages at the St Jude’s with St Aidan Church in Thornton Heath, south London, between December 2009 and March ...

    By Michael T. Klare January 22, 2013 "TomDispatch" -- Don’t look now, but conditions are deteriorating in the western Pacific.  Things are turning ugly, with consequences that could prove deadly and spell catastrophe for the global economy. In Washington, it is widely assumed that a showdown with Iran over its nuclear ambitions will be the first major crisis to engulf the next secretary of defense -- wh ...