ISLAMABAD: Remaining steadfast against the menace of terrorism throughout year 2009, Islamabad Police also emerged successful in countering criminal elements, the murderers, car lifter gangs and robbers.
New clues emerge: Suicide attacks against Pakistani Shias in Karachi and Kashmir are unprecedented. There have been no sectarian or suicide attacks in Kashmir before. The attack in Karachi is the first major sectarian assault in five years.
On the first anniversary of the beginning of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip - in my view it was a demonstration of Israeli state terrorism at its most naked - it's not enough to say that the governments of the Western powers (and others) are complicit in Israel's on-going collect …
Sirens wailed across the Gaza Strip on Sunday as the still-devastated Hamas-ruled enclave marked one year since the start of Israel's deadliest offensive ever launched on the territory.
Listening to President Zardari speaking at the second death anniversary ceremony of his wife Benazir Bhutto one was reminded of Don Quixote—the idealistic blundering knight created by Cervantes.
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Somalia and Yemen have become the hot spots for jihadist activities and recruitment...
US relations with Pakistan are key to success in Afghanistan. Here's how to bolster them.
It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly – in fact to a degree it already has – if the French government doesn't get a grip on reality.
Notwithstanding the fact that Simla Agreement makes no concession to India on the issue of Kashmir nor compromises Pakistan's Kashmir stance based on UN resolutions, the Indian obsessive insistence on 'bilateralism' has become a major stumbling block in achieving a breakthrough i …
The destabilization of Pakistan began with the December 2007 murder of Benazir Bhutto after Mark Siegel, her Ashkenazi biographer and lobbyist, assured U.S.
There are no doubts in the importance and utility of nuclear power but it requires a responsible attitude from the authorities concerned with this sector. Any irresponsibility and lack of attention can create havoc like Chernobyl.
US Administration under President Obama, now in the arena for a good length, seems to suffer as if it can no longer be responsive, decisive and swift.
LAHORE, Dec. 23: The Jamaat e Islami chief, Syed Munawar Hasan, has said that a gang of thieves and plunderers is resisting the implementation of the Supreme Court verdict on the NRO promoting the culture of might is right.
NEW DELHI: If former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore has got away with a six-month sentence for molesting a 14-year-old girl, Ruchika Girhotra, who killed herself three years later while desperately searching for justice, it is mainly due to a glaring lacuna in the 150-year-old …
Banned from American "mainstream" news, the Jerusalem Post reports: The Israeli Palsan company won a tender to supply $350 million in armored personnel carriers to soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, Israel Radio reported on Saturday.
Bhagat Singh finds a place not only among India's but world's greatest revolutionaries. His life, work, struggle and the way he kissed and embraced death bring him in league of world's great revolutionaries such as Socrates, Bruno, Joan of Arc, Che Guevara etc.
From politicians, to celebs, to cops and simpletons here's a country of rapists that won't fail you a chow-time whenever you're out to find a place that is most 'Afghanistanly' when it comes to violence against women.
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Churchill characterized Soviet Russia in terms of riddles and enigmas.
THE VOICE at the other end of the line is weak and tired. It's past 8 pm. "We are on our way to the village," he says. "We walk six hours every day - three hours at daybreak from our village into the forest and three hours at sundown back to the village.
Lemmings periodically self destruct through mass suicide. This phenomenon has defied explanation and remains a case of irrational behavior in the animal kingdom. More difficult to understand is similar behavior among humans. Take the Pakistan Peoples Party.
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The last government in Pakistan was seen as military backed because the President was the Chief of Army Staff! The present elected government is seen as US backed because that is where they seem to be looking for their survival.
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Just when a frail streak of democratic etiquette made it to the placid surface of Hindu dominated and grossly convoluted version of democracy, Bala Thackery had to smear it with vile molasses from the tip of his tongue, reeking of spectacular proportions of hate and intolerance …
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Recent encounters of Pakistan's city police with "American officials" at check posts in sensitive areas in the cities like Lahore and Islamabad have rung alarm bells within the general public and other sensitive institutes of Pakistan.
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says he'll know by the end of 2010 if his Afghan strategy is working, and he pledges to change direction if the U.S. military is not on course "in terms of securing population centers" from Taliban militants.
IF intentions are the criteria for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize then Obama was definitely one of the contenders. If the requirement is actual deeds and actions then perhaps he does not qualify. The President has been long on rhetoric and woefully short on action.
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