U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will announce on Thursday more aid to help those affected by the devastating floods in Pakistan, the State Department said. Spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters Wednesday that Clinton will announce the new assistance while attending meetings at the United Nations in New York. The United States has provided [...]
It is a matter of fact that “Satta” is big in Mumbia and that the high stake betting is pat of the Bharati culture. It is also a fact that the current scandal plaguing the young Pakistani players involves some prominent Bharati bookies. The fact remains that in all previous scandals the bookies were traced [...]
Sir Richard Branson and singer Imogen Heap have teamed up to host an online benefit to help the millions of Pakistanis affected by the devastating floods. The benefit will raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis caused by the flooding — with experts from several charitable organizations participating in a discussion about the disaster. In addition [...]
The Bharati think tanks have gone bonkers. The nut case Bharat Verma has gone beyond being a crackpot. The sad thing about Delhi policy makers is that they red the Verma claptrap and many actually believe his silly articles. The Manmohan Singh government on Monday said that it was making “independent verification” of reports that [...]
A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets. As the US draws down in Iraq, it is leaving [...]
Every one of us must be in shock to read the recent UNICEF report about fear of dying of 70,000 children owing to numerous diseases as a result of polluting the drinking water by the current devastating floods in the country. I request our elected government to declare ‘health emergency’ in the country and utilise [...]
Mercenaries and private military companies and their suspicious intelligence network in Afghanistan have ultimately challenged the legitimate function of the Afghan state. They are the prime reason behind the distances between the regular soldiers and civil society across the country. Secret and underground arm business between these contractors, the Taliban militia and former warlords has [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he never told the US administration a settlement freeze would be renewed after Middle East peace talks restart this week, an official said on Monday.”We have not presented any proposal to the Americans on an extension of the freeze … the government has not taken any decision on the [...]
US President Barack Obama blamed a “network of misinformation” for keeping alive persistent rumours that he is a Muslim, but he shrugged off the misconception as being out of his control. “There is a mechanism, a network of misinformation, that in a new media era can get churned out there constantly,” Obama said in an [...]
Two years ago, Duane Clarridge sat down to be interviewed by John Pilger for Pilger’s series “The War on Democracy.” Clarridge, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer was indicted in 1991 for his involvement in covering up the Iran-Contra affair, and retired from the agency in 1987. Not only did he back the Contras against [...]
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