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 ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi The last day of the Mayan calendar predicted that the world would come to an end on December 21, 2012. On this date planets including the sun and the Earth will align. The apocalypse lobby believes that the alignment would disturb magnetic field and navigation systems, causing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The skeptics treat the Doomsday prediction as plain nonsense. The Doom ...

Asif Haroon Raja   Despite Obama’s desperation to declare victory in Afghanistan, triumph is not in sight. The US is now striving to end the war in Afghanistan in a manner that its honor doesn’t get bruised. It wants the world to believe that its troops are abandoning Afghanistan of their own accord after achieving most objectives. While all the power centers in USA undoubtedly want to end the war on a winn ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan Japan's Liberal Democratic Party  returnd to power after winning  a landslide victory in national polls on 16 December 2012. Japnese gave almost monopoly  to LDP in Japan's post-war political order until its defeat three years ago. With the LDP's victory, Shinzo Abe, a nationalist and China hawk, is set to become Japan's next prime minister. Together with its parliamentary ally, New Kome ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past, the conventional forces of a country used to attack on a rival country in order to achieve its strategic aims. But in the modern era of globalisation and technology, a rival country can be invaded through ‘different war’ by employing both lethal and non-lethal weapons of psychological warfare. In this regard, Pakistan has become the target of various attacks such as suicide at ...

Asif Haroon Raja The US and its allies including Britain had initiated war against Afghans with lot of fanfare and had announced victory in December 2001. Having ascertained that Afghan Pashtuns were the real troublemakers in turning Afghanistan into graveyard for invading powers, they were targeted with ferocity with the help of non-Pashtun Afghans. Persecution of Pashtuns was extended to adjoining regions ...

Given the fact smartphones have evolved into a veritable Swiss Army Knife — capable of messaging, browsing, gaming, photography, music, navigation and good old fashioned phone calls — they're becoming the most critical gadget we own. In fact, a recent survey commissioned by Google found 80 percent of smartphone owners won't leave home without it. Your smartphone is now a lifeline to your world, connecting y ...

By Nicola Abé A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit of the United States Air Force in New Mexico. He kills dozens of people. But then, one day, he realizes that he can’t do it anymore. For more than five years, Brandon Bryant worked in an oblong, windowless container about the size of a trailer, where the air-conditionin ...