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 ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Supreme Court of India maintained Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt’s punishment and ordered to send him jail. Sanjay Dutt is a famous and well known name of Bollywood and he is in the list of superstars of Bollywood.   Actor has charge that he has some dealings with the criminal who was involved in Mumbai bomb blast on 12 March 1993. There were 12 bomb blasts from 1:33 PM to 2:40 PM which kill ...

By Pierre N. Leval In late 1945, the Allied victors of World War II established a military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, which convicted Nazi leaders for their wartime atrocities. The animating principle of the trials was that conduct of extreme inhumanity violated the part of international law that protects fundamental human rights, which applies everywhere, even though the conduct was authorized by Germ ...

MODERATOR:  Zaheerul Hassan  It is evident from the reprots that Pakistan has taken a stern action against the culprits those burnt Christians' houses  in Lahore. But on the other side state terrorism has been done against Muslims, Siks and Christians. Following the presentations of the Dalit and Christian speakers, there was still about 80-min left for the session to go. The moderator, Dr Graves, had told ...

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 RT Will launching a catastrophic military offensive against the Islamic Republic of Iran be the defining moment of US President Obama’s two-term presidency? Against all common sense and uncommon wisdom, it looks increasingly possible that Barack Obama, the Democratic leader who once-upon-a-campaign seduced the world by pledging to “sit down and talk with America’s enemies,” will resort to armed conflict ...

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 73% Americans have shown distrust on federal government due to contradictories policies over various national and international issues. In this connection, irc.com has prepared a report that is being published here as it is for the consumption of the readers. According to a new poll shows that 73 percent of Americans distrust the decisions made by the federal government – a number that ha ...