Asif Haroon Raja When George W Bush decided to invade Afghanistan, outwardly he pretended that the purpose was to avenge 9/11 attacks allegedly perpetrated by Osama bin Laden led al-Qaeda based in Afghanistan and to free the world from the menace of terrorism and to prevent 9/11 like attacks to recur. The US hidden motives were however altogether different. After regime change, [caption id="attachment_2357" ...

By Frank Jack Daniel TAWANG, India (Reuters) - It has all the appearance of an arms race on the roof of the world. [caption id="attachment_2327" align="alignright" width="198"] Art of Construction[/caption] Asia's two great powers are facing off here in the eastern Himalayan mountains. China has vastly improved roads and is building or extending airports on its side of the border in Tibet. It has placed nuc ...

By Philip Giraldi The Passionate Attachment Why I don’t like Mondays?-------Sometimes it’s better to sleep in on Monday morning. I had carefully avoided two [caption id="attachment_2317" align="alignright" width="216"] U.S.-Israel Flags[/caption] appearances on FOX and CBS by Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday morning talk shows but should have expected that the wisdom imparted by the great Israeli statesman woul ...

[caption id="attachment_2302" align="alignright" width="128"] Obama Worries. How to save Israel ?[/caption] By Laura Rozen July 28, 2012 "Al-Monitor" -- A US group that supports the Free Syrian Army has received a waiver from the US Treasury Department authorizing it to provide logistical and financial support to the armed Syrian resistance. The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office of For ...

[caption id="attachment_2282" align="alignright" width="113"] Saudi Arabia[/caption] Posted by  Zaheerul Hassan According to reliable sources , the  recent spate of news floating around the Internet which claim a blast at the Mukhabarat al-Aa'mmah or General Intelligence Directorate of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh are absolutely fake and concocted, said a senior Saudi security official when contacted by this scri ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan BEIRUT — With warplanes circling overhead, Syrian attack helicopters pounded rebel-held neighborhoods in Aleppo on Tuesday in an escalation of the battle for the country's commercial capital and largest city, residents and activists said. Following a pair of rebel assaults on the country's two main cities and a bombing that wiped out some of his top security last week advisors, Pre ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With the full backing of the civil and military leadership in melting further ice between Pak-US ties, the Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt-Gen Zaheerul Islam will visit America and will meet Director CIA General David Petraeus on August 2. [caption id="attachment_2227" align="alignright" width="316"] Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam , DGI[/caption] Notably, the scheduled ...

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER According to media reports, the new ISI chief, General Zaheer-ul-Islam would be there in Washington on 2nd of this August to hold talks with CIA Director David Petraeus on counter-terror cooperation and intelligence sharing. Since after the ‘uncivilized and unethical’ raid of the US marines in search of Osama Bin Laden in Abbotabad, the relationship between the two countries is conti ...