Japan’s new prime minister on Tuesday offered to consider selling nuclear power technology to India, but called on New Delhi to sign the nuclear test-ban treaty.
Ajmal Kasab came from Pakistani Punjab via the Samjhota Express. He was captured and forced to sing a blank piece of paper, which later turned out be a “confession” written in a language that Kasab is not aware of. The so called confession is written in Marhati—a language unknown to Punjabis or Pakistanis.
Book Review of “Post-Hindu India”: Dr. Kancha Ilaiah on the current Dalit-Brahman Civil war in India and the end of Hinduism Dr. Kancha Ilaiah well written book creates new discussion about the future of the country called “India”. Already wracked by Naxal-Maoist and 89 other insurgencies, Muslim marginalization, Sikh chagrin, Kashmiri secession, and Assamese rebellion–Brhamanic [...]
Fourteen-year-old Nagina Bhat loves Sundays. It’s because she gets to spend the whole day with `Papaji’. And even though she must share his attention with a 100-odd others, she still longs all week for that day. Nagina’s chatter comes to an abrupt halt and her cherubic face clouds as she tells you that her father [...]
Sometimes getting away from the trees and looking at the forest helps you understand the reality more clearly. As we wrote the day after the assassination a murder is investigated on the concept of motive, opportunity and profit from the murder (benefit to the murderer). We first looked at the international arena and investigated the [...]
On 27 December 2008, Israel launched “Operation Cast Lead” on the Gaza Strip with the announced objective of stopping Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, most notably in the town of Sderot close to the northern border between Israel and Gaza, and halting the flow of arms through tunnels from Egypt into Gaza.
Forty-two years of military occupation and sixteen years of the Oslo Process have made Gaza a smaller place. Already one of the most densely-populated strips of land in the world, its population has grown during this period from less than 360,000 in 1967 to 1.5 million today. Meanwhile, its borders have not only become more [...]
The US forces and the Pakistan Army has been playing ping-pong. After 9/11, some of the leadership escaped to the tribal areas. They were picked up in the cities and sequestered away from the cosmopolitan centers. The US made a horrendous mistake by targeting them with drones in FATA. This gave root to the TTP. [...]
The former Prime Minister and “the most popular leader in Pakistan” has demanded that the NRO beneficiaries should quit the government. The people ask him–what about the SRO beneficiaries that took advantage of his rule–those who made off will billions in profit by destroying the largest ship-breaking industry in the world–so that Ittefaq Foundry could [...]
According to Saleem Shehzad, the PPPP government has been given a deadline of December to clip the wings of the president and some of his ministers. What will happen if Mr. Zardari doesn’t accept the dedline and continues to fight the establishment, the parliament, the Supreme Court and Civil Society in Pakistan? That is the [...]
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