By Junaid Tahir A family of tortoise went on a picnic. They packed food and set out to a place they had selected… behind the hills. When they reached the spot, they unpacked their picnic basket. They realized they had forgotten to bring salt. Food without salt is tasteless. They had a conference to decide who should go back and get salt. After a lot of discussion, the youngest tortoise was chosen, as he was ...

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 ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan TEHRAN (FNA)- Most Americans believe that Washington should discourage Israel from attacking Iran's nuclear facilities, a recent survey said. The poll of 737 respondents, conducted by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) between Sep 27 and Oct 2, 2012, showed that 63 percent of respondents believe that the US should discourage Israel from at ...

By Tony Lee Former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus may have told his alleged mistress Paula Broadwell what really happened in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 when terrorists murdered U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Broadwell, whose alleged affair with Petraeus forced him to resign last Friday, revealed during an October 26 speech at the University of Denver that Libyan terror ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent months, more than 50 ethnic Tibetans died through self-immolation in China, which included many Buddhist monks and nuns, calling for Tibetan freedom and the return of their spiritual leader, Dalai Lama who has lived in exile in India since a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. Many Buddhist Tibetans accuse the Chinese government of religious repression, while erodin ...

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 ...

        By Sajjad Shaukat Since the speeches of November 5 by Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, a new debate has started in our media which have been leaving no stone unturned by exploiting their statements. Although there is some difference in nature of their statements, yet in their addresses, central point of both army chief and c ...

 by Zaheerul Hassan Former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, retired four stars General and CIA Director David Petraeus has resigned after proven of his extramarital relations with a married lady researcher Paul Broadwell.  Petraeus’s 14-month tenure as CIA director is one of the shortest in agency history.  Michael J. Morell, who served as Petraeus’s deputy at the CIA, will serve as interim director ...