Posted Zaheerul Hassan YOU HAVE TO LOVE HIM... A MUST READ... [caption id="attachment_2844" align="alignright" width="300"] Robins Williams[/caption]   HE MADE THIS SPEECH IN NEW YORK Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says 'I love New York’ in Arabic. You gotta love Robin Williams........Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Am ...

BY PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER [caption id="attachment_2832" align="alignright" width="300"] Terrorists Commander[/caption] A few media groups, some journalists and so many NGOs belonging to the Indian lobby in Pakistan are now-a-days earnestly working for the approval of free-trade facilities between Pakistan and India. If unluckily approved, such trade policy would prove a catastrophic disaster for Pakistan.  ...

Asif Haroon Raja [caption id="attachment_2798" align="alignright" width="245"] Map; North-Waziristan-Pakistan[/caption] After two years and seven months of sustained pressure, the US seems to have finally succeeded in cornering Pakistan and making it agree to launch an operation in North Waziristan (NW). Pak Army has been reluctant to do so because of its genuine constraints. Notwithstanding the numerous di ...

By Zahir Kazmi [caption id="attachment_2794" align="alignright" width="302"] Protest Against Indian Nuclear Security[/caption] In a September 1967 speech, V.C. Trivedi, the Indian Ambassador to an early UN arms control effort known as the Eighteen Nations Committee on Disarmament, said that developing countries could tolerate nuclear weapons apartheid, but not an atomic apartheid that prevented them from at ...

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 ...

 By James M. Dorsey [caption id="attachment_2714" align="alignright" width="169"] Tarir Square Egypt[/caption] Synopsis The rise of Islamist forces in the complicated post-revolt transition in the Middle East and North Africa may have an impact on post-Soviet states in Central Asia, that are still struggling with transition to democracy or have yet to experience popular revolts. Commentary Two years ago, th ...

PR Chari [caption id="attachment_2710" align="alignright" width="240"] Indian Nuclear Plants[/caption] Visiting Professor, IPCS email: ruhee.neog@ipcs.org Call it unintended irony. But India’s Foreign Minister and National Security Adviser using a forum to discuss the resurrected Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan and the Holy Grail of nuclear disarmament to emphasise India’s devotion to nuclear deterrence is surely ...