By RT   Without hard evidence, American accusations of chemical weapons use in Syria fall short of UN proof standards, says a UN chemical inspector. And in the way proposed, a probe would only result in an Iraqi scenario, the Syrian information minister told RT. The anti-Assad lobby in the UN is using the chemical weapons scare as a new way to exert political and economic pressure on the Syrian government ...

By: Dr. Zafar A. Bokhari  I am a Pakistani American, who does not have any affiliation with any political party in Pakistan. My love for Pakistan in unwavering, who gave me a lot that now I teach at Chicago State University as business professor, serve as Commissioner at ARDC of The Illinois Supreme Court, had lectured in China and many places in the world, and has been Business Delegate for US Department o ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The Supreme Court of Pakistan, armed forces, political and religious parties including media and civil society remain keen to see democracy flourishing in the country by favouring the elections, going to be held in May 11, 2013. Although election campaign is now on peak, yet it is most regrettable that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has accelerated its terror-activities to sabotage t ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The two mainstream parties used to crib that they couldn’t deliver because they were not allowed to complete their five years tenure and were ousted prematurely during the democratic era from 1988 to 1999. This crib was duly addressed when the last PPP led government completed its full tenure, but instead of delivering it bled the nation white. It has left behind such a huge mess that it ...

By Asif Haroon Raja India’s unabated belligerence forced both civil and military regimes to remain India focused and to turn Pakistan into a security state. It in turn retarded economic and democratic growth. National security and unresolved Kashmir dispute being of prime concern enabled the military to maintain a domineering position even when it was not in power. The civil government was restrained from c ...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="266"] Horia Ankour, 30, was taken off an Air France flight after confirming she’s not Jewish[/caption] By Elham Asaad Buaras A French court has found Air France guilty of discrimination for removing a pro-Palestinian activist from a flight to Israel because she was not Jewish. The incident happened during the ‘flytilla’ campaign in April 2012 – when hundreds of pro-P ...

 By Abid Hussain Assistant Library Officer National Defence University Islamabad World book or world book copyright day peoples also known as an international day of the book or world book days. Always celebrated on 23rd April every year. The initiative steps were taken by the bookseller in Spain in regards of an author named Miguel de Cervantes who died on the same date and for the honour of that author fi ...

Asif Haroon Raja Mehrangate scandal which was lingering since 1996 suddenly got reinvigorated in 2012 because of the decision of pro-active Supreme Court (SC) on October 22, 2012. It was indeed distressing to learn that even GHQ and ISI had remained involved in gerrymandering elections to make the political party of choice win the contest. Mehrangate scam in which Rupees 30 million were distributed among ce ...