Posted by Faheem Belharvi “Most economies hit by the Arab Spring uprisings will recover only slowly next year as they grapple with high inflation and rising unemployment due to poor global conditions, the International Monetary Fund predicted in a report on Sunday”. In its twice-yearly outlook for the Middle East and North Africa, the global lender said a partial return of political stability could permit s ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan is an unfortunate country whose destiny is intertwined with treacherous India in the east which lets go no opportunity to harm Pakistan, and Afghanistan on its northwest which is wild and unreliable.  Afghanistan prefers Hindu India over Muslim Pakistan in spite of the fact that it doesn’t share border with India and is not in sync ideologically.  Except for Taliban regime from 199 ...

[caption id="attachment_4721" align="alignright" width="402"] A Pakistani company showed its medium-range drone, the Shahpar, at a Karachi arms expo recently. Locally made drones lag their U.S. counterparts.[/caption] By DION NISSENBAUM KARACHI, Pakistan—This country's defense industry is building what companies hope will be a domestic fleet of aerial drones that can take over the U.S.'s role in attacking m ...

Barack Obama's tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones [caption id="attachment_4717" align="alignright" width="403"] A memorial to the victims of the Sandy Hook school shootings in Connecticut. The children killed by US drones in north-west Pakistan 'have no names, no pictures, no memorials of candles and teddy bears'.[/caption] By Geor ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi While going through the details of suicide attack on Asadullah Khalid, the Intelligence Chief of Afghanistan, one feels that Khalid was strolling somewhere in a public park or enjoying a cup of hot Afghani Qahwa in a café along some deserted highway; he was not at a guesthouse used by the National Directorate of Security in a heavily guarded area of the capital Kabul. How could it ...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Bihari Camps in Dhaka .[/caption] Ishaal Zehra Hilarious, but true.  Government of Bangladesh, or should I say Shaikh Hasina’s government, arranged the 4th phase of honouring the “Foreign Friends of Bangladesh” who supported the liberation war. The grand ceremony was held on 15th December 2012 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre where Bangladesh conf ...

By Zahid Hussain THE figure of Rs12 billion lost daily to corruption may sound staggering, but the assessment does not seem completely off the mark. It is not the figure alone, but the decadence of our society in general and of the ruling elite in particular that matters. The disclosure made by the NAB chairman has only confirmed the widespread perception about the malaise taking deep root in the country, p ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said last Thursday that the US and the NATO forces were responsible for instability in Afghanistan. While talking to media, he asked Americans to hand over the Afghan prisoners at Guantanamo bay to the local forces, adding that no security agreement would be signed with the US until his demand was fulfilled warned. Since hi ...