By Tarek Fahmi Israel did it and launched the Operation “Pillar of Defence,” targeting the head of Hamas military wing Ahmad al-Jaabari, the leader in the takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas, who played a role in the capture of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.This operation has many indications at different levels: The first level: within the Israeli government The discussions within the ministers committee of sec ...

          By Sajjad Shaukat In the modern era, various forms of state terrorism continue by the Israeli armed forces on the Palestinians. While with the backing of Burmese military regime and the covert assistance of Hindus, recent bloodshed of the minority Rohingya Muslim community at the hands of the Rakhine extremist Buddhists in Burma (Myanmar) presents another such example. Similarly, during the Bosnia ...

By Manzoor Ali This is not a good year for the generals. In just ten days 3 four-star US generals have found way to infamy: Two generals, Gen Petraeus and Gen John Allen for infidelity and creating risk of security leaks and the third, Gen William 'Kip' Ward for misuse of government funds. Gen Kip has now to return 84 thousand dollars to the government. His shoulder will now carry one star less and he would ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistan desires to have “cordially, friendly, cooperative and good neighbourly relations" with India as there are tremendous opportunities for the two countries to enhance cooperation for their mutual benefit, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Wednesday. In this connection Zardari hosted special Diwali dinner at the presidency for visiting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his dele ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Janeane Garofalo learned this the hard way. The actress-comedian recently discovered that she and Rob Cohen, a Big Bang Theory producer, were married for the past 20 years and didn't even know it. "Rob and I got married, for real, which we had to have a notary dissolve not 30 minutes before we got here tonight," Garofalo said at the New York Comedy Festival reunion for The Ben Stil ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 12 November 2012,  Kolkata police charged an international gold medal-winning so and so called female athlete for raping her former partner.  According to the medical tests, she was   actually a man. Pinki Pramanik, was  retired in 2007 after winning team gold in the 4x400m relay at the 2006 Asian Games, was charged after a report was completed by a medical board set up to determine he ...

By Anatol Lieven U.S. STRATEGY toward Pakistan is focused on trying to get Islamabad to give serious help to Washington’s campaign against the Afghan Taliban. There are two rather large problems with this approach. The first is that it is never going to happen. As U.S. diplomats in Pakistan themselves recognize (and as was made ever so clear by the WikiLeaks dispatches), both Pakistani strategic calculation ...

 Posted By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_3656" align="alignright" width="333"] Khalistan[/caption] Paramjit Kaur Khalra, widow of Sardar Jaswant Singh Khalra, the late chairman of the Human Rights Wing, who exposed the Indian government’s policy of secret cremations with his study of the cremation grounds in Patti, Tarn Taran, and Gurgiana Mandir, recently said that Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale ...