By Hira Zaheer [caption id="attachment_2836" align="alignright" width="300"] Christians Protesting on Indian Forces Brutality[/caption] Minority Rights….this expression symbolizes the privileges, birthrights and civil liberties to both individual members of a racial, religious and linguistic groups or communal entitlements accorded to concerned group. In the recent couple of days the International electroni ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat                  [caption id="attachment_2828" align="alignright" width="300"] Pakistan Cpatured Town[/caption] The 6th of September holds a significant place in the history of our nation, when Pakistan’s courageous armed forces and the entire nation stood united in 1965 for the defence of the homeland in thwarting the nefarious designs of the enemy which had threatened the territorial i ...

Asif Haroon Raja [caption id="attachment_2798" align="alignright" width="245"] Map; North-Waziristan-Pakistan[/caption] After two years and seven months of sustained pressure, the US seems to have finally succeeded in cornering Pakistan and making it agree to launch an operation in North Waziristan (NW). Pak Army has been reluctant to do so because of its genuine constraints. Notwithstanding the numerous di ...

By Zahir Kazmi [caption id="attachment_2794" align="alignright" width="302"] Protest Against Indian Nuclear Security[/caption] In a September 1967 speech, V.C. Trivedi, the Indian Ambassador to an early UN arms control effort known as the Eighteen Nations Committee on Disarmament, said that developing countries could tolerate nuclear weapons apartheid, but not an atomic apartheid that prevented them from at ...

[caption id="attachment_2790" align="alignright" width="241"] Map of Pak-Afghanistan[/caption] By Brig (R) Sher Shah Mr Zahid Hussain’s, article “Conspiratorial Paranoia” in Dawn of August 28, is a good piece of reflection of our confused hypothesisation of internal threats. Mr Zahid has made three points; firstly, the retired army generals while on talk shows profess more of foreign hands in militant threa ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan  The U.S. military said on Monday it was disciplining U.S. troops over two incidents that provoked outrage in Afghanistan early this year, one involving a video depicting Marines urinating on corpses and another over burned copies of the Koran. The military said the punishments were administrative, which could include actions such as a reprimand, reduction in rank or forfeiture of ...

By Scott Malone and Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac was near hurricane force as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday and was expected to make landfall in the New Orleans area seven years after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Isaac's swirling winds, rain and storm surge could pose a major test of New Orleans' new flood control systems and reinforced levees. Forecasts ...

 By James M. Dorsey [caption id="attachment_2714" align="alignright" width="169"] Tarir Square Egypt[/caption] Synopsis The rise of Islamist forces in the complicated post-revolt transition in the Middle East and North Africa may have an impact on post-Soviet states in Central Asia, that are still struggling with transition to democracy or have yet to experience popular revolts. Commentary Two years ago, th ...