[caption id="attachment_2531" align="alignright" width="193"] Sikh Family of USA[/caption] TheHonorable Steven Scaffidi Mayor of OakCreek 8422 S.Griffin Ave. Oak Creek,WI 53154 Dear MayorScaffidi: On behalf ofthe 28 million strong Sikh Nation and over 700,000 Sikhs in the United States,I am writing to thank you for the valiant efforts of the Oak Creek PoliceDepartment in trying to stop the murders at the Si ...

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER A few weeks back, The Times of India published an article “Shame: Delhi still India’s rape capital”. This article by V Narayan says, “Delhi continues to be the rape capital of the country, followed by Mumbai. Delhi registered 568 cases of rape, compared to 218 in Mumbai in 2011, National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) statistics showed. In the period of 2007-2011, Delhi topped the chart ...

Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan As a geographical pivot of history, Pakistani geopolitical location has always been significant for the global players. Within Pakistan, the Province of Balochistan, has immense geo–strategic significance in the emerging international political and economic order. This God gifted province, has immense natural resources with traditionally proud and strapping manpower. However, its peop ...

Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal Recent upsurge in violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar (Formerly known as Burma) has highlighted the regime’s complete disregard for basic human rights. While the international conscience awakens slowly, the Muslim minority has already suffered a colossal spell of ethnic cleansing. Accounting for over 1/3rd of total population of Myanmar, 800,000 Rohingyas are neither ...

MATTHEW F. SMITH The West's faith in Burma isn't being repaid. When U.S. President Barack Obama lifted restrictions on investments by American companies in the country last month, state security forces were still committing killings, rape and mass arrests against Rohingya Muslims in Arakan state. These abuses came after the authorities failed to protect both Rohingya and Arakan Buddhists during sectarian vi ...

By Brendan O'Brien and James B. Kelleher [caption id="attachment_2502" align="alignright" width="137"] Grieved Family of Sikh[/caption] OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (Reuters) - The gunman who killed six worshipers at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was identified as a 40-year-old U.S. Army veteran and authorities said they were investigating possible links to white supremacist groups and his membership in skinhead rock ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_2498" align="alignright" width="207"] Afghanistan[/caption] In the recent years, a series of conferences were held in order to bring stability and peace in Afghanistan before the foreign troops complete withdrawal from that country in 2014. In earlier July, in the Tokyo conference, US-led western nations and institutions pledged $16 billion for the economic deve ...

 Shibani Mahtani European Pressphoto Association Protestors in hold banners and shout slogans during a protest against Myanmar’s treatment of the ethnic minority Rohingyas in Karachi, Pakistan. Myanmar is no stranger to criticism from Western nations and human rights groups, some of whom still approach the once-reclusive nation with caution despite major economic and social reforms there over the past year. ...