by Shaiq Hussain With a sense of urgency on their minds, top US officials have begun crucial talks with Pakistani authorities for the withdrawal of thousands of US-led foreign troops and military equipment from Afghanistan through NATO supply lines. While the US authorities are engaged with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Qatar and other facilitators of peace talks with the Taliban, they have started important talks ...

Just Back From The Mideast – And I’m Really Worried By Eric Margolis February 03, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - The Mideast is stumbling into one of its most dangerous crisis in decades. I’m just back from the region – and as an old Mideast hand, I am very worried. This region is always tense, but right now a series of separate conflicts are rapidly beginning to intersect. We see the Mideast, North Af ...

By Al Jazeera Syria has threatened to retaliate for an Israeli air attack while its ally Iran says there will be repercussions for Israel over the attack. Ali Abdul-Karim Ali, Syrian ambassador to Lebanon, said in Damascus on Thursday that Syria "has the option and the capacity to surprise in retaliation". Ali said he could not predict when Syria would retaliate. It was up to the relevant authorities to pre ...

Professor Ali Sukhanver In this world of conspiracies, spreading of depression has proved one of the very successful strategies used as the war tactics and its repercussions are more fatal and lethal than those of a nuclear bomb. Now survival is not the fate of the fittest ones but of those who don’t fall a prey to depression and disappointment. Throughout the world, most of the countries have their own wel ...

By Bruce Riedel Saudi Arabia is the world’s last absolute monarchy. Like Louis XIV, King Abdullah has complete authority to do as he likes. But while a revolution in Saudi Arabia is still not likely, the Arab Awakening has made one possible for the first time, and it could come in President Obama’s second term. Revolutionary change in the kingdom would be a disaster for American interests across the board. ...

M. Umar Farooq Baloch The global energy resources have constantly been depleting. Taking the example of oil, 37% of the world energy need is met through oil and if oil production remains constant until it’s gone, there is only enough oil in the world to last 42 years. The energy crises in Pakistan has aggravated to the extent which has seriously affected the economy and growth besides paralyzing the routine ...

French intervention in Mali will fuel terrorism, but the west's buildup in Africa is also driven by the struggle for resources By Seumas Milne January 24, 2013 "The Guardian" --  To listen to David Cameron's rhetoric this week, it could be 2001 all over again. Eleven years into the war on terror, it might have been Tony Blair speaking after 9/11. As the bloody siege of the part BP-operated In Amenas gas pla ...

Asif Haroon Raja Secret war launched in 2002 by so-called allies of Pakistan was aimed at destabilizing, de-Islamizing, denuclearizing and destroying Pakistan. For eleven years concerted efforts have been made by the US and its allies grouped together in Kabul to achieve their objectives. The first phase of destabilization has progressed fairly well and today Pakistan’s socio-politico-economic-military fabr ...