NYT: US requested $49 million for new facility for 'special detainees' at detention center  - Andrea Germanos, staff writer Death is increasingly looking like the only way out for detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison. The United States Southern Command [SouthCom] has requested $49 million to build a new prison building at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for “special” detainees on top of other renovations it says ar ...

Asif Haroon Raja There is no denying the fact that Pakistan suffered from leadership crisis after the untimely death of Quaid-e-Azam in September 1948. All those who held the reins of power after Quaid and Liaquat Ali Khan were selfish, power hungry, morally weak and pro-American. With feet of clay, they failed to build Pakistan as a modern, progressive Islamic welfare state as envisioned by the founder lea ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although peace and brinksmanship cannot co-exist in the modern era, yet India seeks to destabilise South Asia through its aggressive designs. In this regard, in its report, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) disclosed on March 20, 2012, “India is the world’s largest recipient of arms…India’s imports of major weapons increased by 38 percent between 2002-06 and 2007 ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Jorge Mario Bergoglio 76-year-old Archbishop of Buenos Aires has been choosen Poper and to be called Pope Francis. He became a cardinal in 2001. He was reportedly one of the front runners in 2005 and now appears to have been elected as the first pope from outside of Europe. The election procedutre took  3 days . It's the first time the name has ever been chosen and perhaps there is a symb ...

By Patrick Henningsen The evidence is now in, as list of state actors can now be seen openly conspiring to drive the Middle East into full-blown war. It’s well known by now that NATO and the Gulf States initial plans to overturn the sovereign state of Syria has been running behind schedule since their operation was launched two years ago. They had hoped for the sort of slam dunk which they enjoyed in overtu ...

By Asif Haroon Raja   The US-NATO-CIA-Afghan regime-India have been continually casting aspersions on the ISI that it is ‘intimately involved’ with the insurgency in Afghanistan and is secretly aiding Afghan Taliban. They allege that but for ISI’s support; the Taliban couldn’t have snatched the initiative from them and forced them to withdraw. Although the allegation is baseless and unsubstantiated, for arg ...

A leaked U.S. Army document prepared for the Department of Defense contains shocking plans for “political activists” to be pacified by “PSYOP officers” into developing an “appreciation of U.S. policies” while detained in prison camps inside the United States.   The document, entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations (PDF) was originally released on a restricted basis to the DoD in February ...

Some say Kargil was Pakistan army’s-biggest-strategic-blunder!     by Sethi Mushtaq The Kargil war, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place in between May and July 1999, in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC). The conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (Victory in Hindi) which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil ...