We tend to be emotional in discussing our relations with Iran with deep nostalgic references to the civilisational links with Iran. Iranian leaders and analysts too talk of this civilisational relationship, but without any sign of nostalgia or emotion. B. Raman The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has gone to Teheran to attend the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. His participation in the summit will pr ...

Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan There live approximately 800,000 Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, forming 4% of the Burma’s total population. Contrary to this official data of Myanmar Government, neutral sources claims that, the total Muslim population is more than double the government estimates. It is worth noting that, Burmese Muslims, commonly known as Rohingya Muslims, settled in this part of the world in 7th and 8 ...

[caption id="attachment_2765" align="alignright" width="224"] Mullah Omer[/caption] Letter to Editor As the UnitedStates has issued a warning to its citizens travelling to Pakistan in the wakeof possible terror threats in the country, the top American general, JohnAllen, who is commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said in anarticle published on Tuesday that the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, wa ...

By Zaheeul Hassan [caption id="attachment_2759" align="alignright" width="334"] Brave Pak Army[/caption] On August 14,  2012 Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani as Chief guest addressed a large number of people from all segments of society ,  senior serving and retired civil and military officials in parade ground of  Pakistan Military Academy  at the occasion of sixty fifth Independenc ...

  [caption id="attachment_2756" align="alignright" width="254"] COAS -Pakistan Army[/caption]           By Sajjad Shaukat An article by Khaled Ahmed under the caption, “General Kayani’s War”, published in The Express Tribune on August 26, 2012 is no more than a fictitious story against Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. While showing illogical approach, the writer has tried to ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan  The U.S. military said on Monday it was disciplining U.S. troops over two incidents that provoked outrage in Afghanistan early this year, one involving a video depicting Marines urinating on corpses and another over burned copies of the Koran. The military said the punishments were administrative, which could include actions such as a reprimand, reduction in rank or forfeiture of ...

By Scott Malone and Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac was near hurricane force as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday and was expected to make landfall in the New Orleans area seven years after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Isaac's swirling winds, rain and storm surge could pose a major test of New Orleans' new flood control systems and reinforced levees. Forecasts ...

Tom Engelhardt In the wake of several deaths among its contingent of troops in a previously peaceful province in Afghanistan, New Zealand (like France [5] and South Korea [6]) is now expediting [7] the departure of its 140 soldiers. That’s not exactly headline-making news here in the United States. If you’re an American, you probably didn’t even know that New Zealand was playing a small part in our Afghan W ...