[caption id="" align="alignright" width="179"] Faiz Ghazal[/caption] Letter to Editor By FZ Khan Ever since the Fall of Dhaka, a great tragedy of our times, there has, on one side, always been “ehsas-e-ziyan jata raha”-attitude on part of our governments, civil society, intelligentsia and media, and on the other side of the border, the enemy celebrates the ‘big’ victory with heightened vigour and renewed pl ...

Asif Haroon Raja America and its allies are persecuting and bleeding the Muslims for over a decade. Notwithstanding its imperialistic designs and penchant to harm Muslims interests, the Muslim states themselves are also responsible for the sorry state of affairs within the Muslim world. Notwithstanding all out support of the US and the west to Israel in its creation and build up, Arab states are also respon ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Coming into the Mumbai Test, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was sitting in his hotel room and thinking: What did he want from the authorities to win the Test?   The answer he came up with was simple: A turning pitch, batsmen who know the conditions, three spinners and as an afterthought, he wanted to win the toss too. In the minds of many, it was a fail-safe approach. And he g ...

By Adam Shatz The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its assault on the Strip, and Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at southern Israel, but it leaves Gaza as miserable as eve ...

By Harold Brown Xi Jinping, China's newly anointed president, made his first visit to the United States in May 1980. He was a 27-year-old junior officer accompanying Geng Biao, then a vice premier and China's leading military official. Geng had been my host the previous January, when I was the first U.S. defense secretary to visit China, acting as an interlocutor for President Jimmy Carter's administration. ...

 By Hindustan Times Buzz is that actor and her estranged husband, Delhi-based businessman Sunjay Kapur, are finally headed for divorce. And, they’re in talks over custody issues of their children.   While the couple remains mum, a close source reveals, “Looks like it’s time for them to make it official. They’ve been through discussions about this (a divorce) of late. They’re now trying to come upon an agree ...

By Sam Webb dailymail This is the dramatic moment a bow-tie wearing bridegroom was arrested by police as he was about to say ‘I do’ in a sham marriage. The grey-suited man was about to marry his bride, dressed in white and carrying a bouquet of red blooms, when stab-vest wearing police and border officials stormed into the register office in Slough, Berkshire. The officers from the UK Border Agency dramatic ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan 'Spider-Man' stars Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield are taking their relationship to the next level by buying a USD 2.5 million home together. Once owned by late actor and comedian Dudley Moore, the property boasts four bedrooms and three-and-a-half bedrooms, Although it is not clear whose name is on the title deeds for the luxury home, the privately gated community in which it stand ...