The Turkish prime minister yesterday defended a controversial decision to enter talks with China to buy Turkey’s first long-range anti-missile system, but said no deal had yet been finalised. Ankara’s announcement last month that it was launching discussions with the China Precision Machinery Import-Export for the deal – worth US$4 […]
Winnipg, Manitoba, Canada A Winnipeg lawyer and political neophyte will lead the Manitoba Liberal Party into the next general election, expected in the spring of 2016. Rana Bokhari stunned some observers Saturday with a first-ballot victory over businessman and author Dougald Lamont and longtime party insider and consultant Bob Axworthy. […]
Ahead of Bangladesh’s liberation in 1971, the Pakistani Army systematically committed genocide of the Hindu community in the then East Pakistan and the Nixon Administration turned a blind eye to it, a new book says. While the Indian Government was aware of it, it tried to play it down and […]
JEDDAH: SIRAJ WAHAB Published — Sunday 27 October 2013 A visiting Pakistani-American radio journalist has commended Saudi Arabia for the successful organization of this year’s Haj. Qamar Abbas Jafri of […]
The NewYork Times: by Mark Landler – The president’s goal, said Ms. Rice, who discussed the review for the first time in an interview last week, is to avoid having events in the Middle East swallow his foreign policy agenda, as it had those of presidents before him. WASHINGTON — […]
Telegraph: US intelligence has been operating a global network of 80 eavesdropping centres, including 19 European listening posts in cities such as Paris, Berlin, Rome and Madrid, the German magazine Spiegel has reported. The new revelations, which Spiegel said were based on leaked American intelligence documents, are certain to fuel […]
Telegraph: US intelligence has been operating a global network of 80 eavesdropping centres, including 19 European listening posts in cities such as Paris, Berlin, Rome and Madrid, the German magazine Spiegel has reported. The new revelations, which Spiegel said were based on leaked American intelligence documents, are certain to fuel […]
Source: Jakarta Globe: Leaks from Edward Snowden have helped America’s adversaries and represent the most serious breach of classified information in US history, the CIA’s former number-two ranking official said in an interview Friday. Michael Morrell, who served as deputy director and acting director of the CIA, told CBS television’s […]
Source: Dawn.Com FOR decades, Pakistan has had a single-item foreign policy: Kashmir. Of late, drones have been added to this short list. Long gone are the days when Pakistan commanded respect on the global stage, and was seen as a spokesman for the developing world. Now, wracked by two violent […]
The NewYork Times: by Stephanie Strom – Few things are more American than Coca-Cola. But bottled water is washing away the palate trained to drain a bubbly soda. By the end of this decade, if not sooner, sales of bottled water are expected to surpass those of carbonated soft drinks, […]
By SHARON ADARLO Oct. 25, 2013 9:05 p.m. ET At a Muslim wedding in New Jersey more than a year ago, Wajahat Ali recalled, guests were confused when the bride […]
By Audra Schroeder on October 24, 2013 Email Noam Chomsky, noted linguist and activist, took time out recently to eloquently explain how the Internet is making us stupider. He’s the star of a short clip called “Noam Chomsky on Sandwiches and Twitter,” uploaded yesterday to YouTube channel the Chomsky Videos. […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Pakistani officials have for years secretly endorsed the U.S. drone program, even picking out at least one target for such an attack, according to a Washington Post report. Neither the White House, the U.S. State Department nor the Pakistani Foreign Ministry would comment on the story, which said […]
Huff Post: by Brett Gallaher – Now I know what some of you may be thinking (and that’s precisely why I won’t be replying to every comment). How can I, blogger-person, know with certainty who is and isn’t going to Hell? How can a mere mortal know such mysteries of […]
Six members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, including Imam Shamshad A. Nasir of the Baitul Hameed Mosque in Chino, attended the 18th annual Upland Interfaith Prayer Breakfast on Oct. 23rd. The event, as in past years, was held from 7:00 am to 8:00 am at the Upland Fire Station at […]
dawn: WASHINGTON: US spies eavesdropped on the phone conversations of 35 world leaders after White House, Pentagon and State Department officials gave them the numbers, The Guardian reported on Thursday. A classified document provided by fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden said the National Security Agency worked closely with the “customer” […]
STORY SUMMARY James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, is not your sleek, button-down spy chief. Clapper has recently taken steps that forced the NSA to accept greater transparency and […]
washington post: Despite repeatedly denouncing the CIA’s drone campaign, top officials in Pakistan’s government have for years secretly endorsed the program and routinely received classified briefings on strikes and casualty counts, according to top-secret CIA documents and Pakistani diplomatic memos obtained by The Washington Post. The files describe dozens […]
October 23, 2013 – 20:00 BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government has obtained information that the United States may have monitored the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel and she […]
October 23, 2013 12:17 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY In a fascinating juxtaposition, two news stories this week affirmed all that is right and wrong in the system of American justice as it pertains to the killing of civilians around the world. One story reported […]