By Murtaza Hussain Friday, March 08, 2013 - In his letters, Guantánamo Bay prisoner Shaker Aamer appeals in desperation to his captors and the outside world: “Please … torture me in the old way. Here they destroy people mentally and physically without leaving marks.” The 44-year-old British resident and father of four has spent over 11 years incarcerated at Guantánamo despite being cleared for release as ea ...

By Rida Zaheer According to ISPR, the 158th Corps Commanders’ Conference was held at General Headquarters on Thursday. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani chaired the meeting. Apart from professional military matters, the meeting under took a comprehensive review of internal and external security environment of the country. The meeting also discussed the law and order situation in Karach ...

Posted By Rida Zaheer Syrian rebels seized 21 U.N. peacekeepers from the Philippines on 6 MARCH 2013 in a bid to convince President Bashar al-Assad pull back from a rebel-held village near the Golan Heights. In a video posted to the Internet, a man claiming to be the spokesman for the rebel Martyrs of Yarmouk Brigades said that his men will hold the peacekeepers until Assad's forces withdraw from Jamlah, wh ...

Huma Rehman Ali Ardashir Larijani, the speaker of Iranian parliament in an interview to TV channel announced that Iran was a nuclear power. Though he qualified the statement by saying that Iran would always use nuclear power for peaceful purposes, Larijani’s statement has raised a number of questions. Does the statement mean that Iran has mastered the nuclear technology but has taken a political decision no ...

Nikolai Vlasov, deputy head of the Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection Service, warned that women grow mustaches if they drink certain types of American-produced milk, according to an interview published Wednesday.   The milk in question comes from the dairy cows that receive bovine growth hormone, also known as bovine somatotropin, which boosts the yield, Vlasov said in an interview with Rossii ...

By Hari Singh India established a dedicated external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Founded mainly to focus on China and Pakistan, over the last forty years the organization has expanded its mandate of breeding terrorist activities all over the world especially in Afghanistan. ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Tuesday, March 05, 2013 - There is no doubt that the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan is not just a conflict of unfinished partition plan approved by the King and the British parliament, but history shows it was all done by design and thus a legacy of British colonial rule; today it has a central place in the troubled relationship of the two neighbors India and Pakistan ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Saturday, March 02, 2013 - Senator Chuck Hagel has sworn in on Wednesday as Secretary of Defence replacing Leon Panetta, who has been a source of pain for Pakistan, first as CIA chief and later as Secretary Defence. Of course, Chuck Hagel is likely to pursue the policies of the government, but it appears that President Obama wants to change his policy with regard to Israel and Iran ...