Pakistani leaders are serious about wiping out militancy in the northwest, especially in the Waziristan; the Taliban took over in the past two years. Washington backs the operation, seeing it as a test of Pakistan’s resolve to beat al-Qaida and Taliban militants implicated in attacks on Western forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
Pakistani authorities have garnered the most sought-after evidence regarding the involvement of India’s notorious intelligence agency RAW in destabilising the country by using Afghan soil, a local newspaper reliably learnt on Sunday.
According to an obscure report in the European Union Times, “Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued an order to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to ‘begin immediately’ increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, [...]
One year has passed since the savage Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, but for the people there time might as well have stood still. Since Palestinians in Gaza buried their loved ones — more than 1,400 people, almost 400 of them children — there has been little healing and virtually no reconstruction. According to [...]
Here is how it works. The Russian mafia and the corrupt Bharati (aka Indian) politicians come up with a hair brined scheme to gyp the poor, the destitute and the caste ridden penury stricken population out of a few billion Dollars.
Is it in Pakistan’s interest to antagonise the Afghan Taliban now, if they will be in power two or three years down the road? This is the question for Pakistani politicians and American analysts. While the “Surkha crowd” (the drawing room Marxist liberals—not the real revolutionaries). Of course they are thinking with the paychecks (they [...]
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.
Arch-rivals India and Pakistan will face off on the opening day of field hockey’s World Cup next year, according to the schedule announced by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) yesterday.
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.
President Asif Ali Zardari’s attack on his unnamed enemies has raised many eyebrows and caused apprehensions about a possible repeat of October 12, 1999 when the then prime minister had sacked the Army chief.
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