Pakistan: The path of isolation: Asma Jehangir
Dawn: by Asma Jehangir: PAKISTAN remains in the dog house of the international community mainly because its rulers refuse to accept that violence and conflict within the country are escalating […]
An Indian Muslim’s response to Pakistan
Pakistan is full of people who still think that they will someday launch a ‘holy war’ or let’s say “Gajwa–e-Hind” on India. They aspire of imposing their colonial rule on India, quite same as America has done in Afghanistan and Iraq. The subjects as it aspires will have a unbreakable […]
China confirms no casualties during attacks in Afghanistan
BEIJING, April 16 (Xinhua) — China on Monday confirmed the safety of Chinese citizens during attacks in Afghanistan on Sunday. Read More…
3 dead, 16 hurt in bus bombing
Source: Standard Today (Manila) SUSPECTED extortionists bombed a bus in North Cotabato in Mindanao on Wednesday, killing three passengers and wounding 16 others, the Armed Forces of the Philippines said. The military initially reported 10 dead but regional commander Lt. Col. Benjie Hao later revised the death toll. Muslim rebels […]
Sanctions against Iran: ‘Hara-kiri’ by the Europeans?
Russian TV: Iran has halted oil sales to Greece in response to the EU sanctions coming into force in July. The country’s Press-TV reports Tehran also cut supplies to Spain […]
Conflicting Assessments – New Report Finds Breivik Sane Ahead of Trial
Source: Spiegel International By Gerald Traufetter in Oslo Contrary to an initial assessment, right-wing extremist Anders Breivik is not criminally insane, a new report found on Tuesday. Now both reports will […]
Pakistan: Saeed vs Qudoos | Our varying levels of constitutional equality —Yasser Latif Hamdani
The Daily Times: Yasser Latif Hamdani: In the current atmosphere, standing up to the US and citing due process in defence of Saeed seems like a very attractive idea. A […]
Two decades from war, a new fight to save Bosnia
(Reuters) – The shooting began over the course of weeks, but if Bosnia’s war needs a beginning to mark, then it’s April 6, 1992, twenty years ago this Friday. That’s […]
EDITORIAL: Ahmedis under threat
Dailytimes.com: It seems that state officials are taking advantage of the discriminatory status of Ahmedis to freely brutalise members of the community. Police officials continuously persecute these people because of […]
Five possible scenarios for Syria, and their impact on Iraq
By Safa A. Hussein The Daily Star, Lebanon Iraqis celebrated the Arab Spring that changed the regimes of Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen. But they are divided about the protests and uprisings in Bahrain and Syria. On the surface, it seems that this is merely a reflection of the sectarian divide […]
$10 million mystery-Joke? – or Just Politics: a bounty on Hafiz Saeed?
Global Post: Officially, India welcomed the US decision to offer a $10 million bounty for information leading to the capture of alleged Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed, whom both the US […]
U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Pakistani Militant
NY Times: …………..Wendy Sherman, the United States under secretary of state for political affairs, announced the reward for Mr. Saeed, described as the leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba, during a visit to India on Monday. […]
Mullah or Pakistan: Ludhianvi vs. Police and the Winner is?
Dawn.com: When in 2009 the Taliban had taken over the districts of Buner, Shangla and Lower Dir, they had been some 60 miles away from Islamabad. But that had been […]
Boy and girl killed in Afghanistan acid attack ‘over friendship’
Source: Al-Arabiya News A 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy have been killed in an acid attack in Afghanistan, an official said Saturday, with witnesses claiming it was because of their friendship in what is an ultra-conservative country. The bodies were discovered on Friday in wasteland in the Esfandi area […]
Muslim woman beaten to death in California with note on body that says go home
A woman from Iraq who was found beaten, lying in a pool of blood in her in El Cajon, Calif., home next to a note saying “go back to your […]
Militia Member Drugs and Kills Afghan Colleagues
Source: New York Times Author: Farooq Jan Mangal and Matthew Rosenberg KHOST, Afghanistan — A member of a militia promoted by the American military to protect rural villages drugged his Afghan colleagues and killed at least nine of them as they slept on Friday, a police official said, in the […]
Symmetry of slaughter
By GWYNNE DYER ARABNEWS After Mohamed Merah died in a hail of French police bullets last week, people who had known him talked about “a polite and courteous boy” who liked “cars, bikes, sports and girls.” His friends had trouble believing that he had murdered seven people, including three children, […]
USA/NATO route not likely to open soon.
Credit: Asia Times: By Amir Mir ISLAMABAD – Pakistan opposition parties are moving to block the reopening of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) supply routes into neighboring Afghanistan ahead of crucial deliberations to set new terms of engagement with the United States. The country’s major right-wing opposition party, led by […]
Using Internet Tools, Terrorist Group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Incites Violence against Shi’ite Muslims and Ahmdis
Using Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Other Internet Tools, Pakistani Terrorist Group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Incites Violence against Shi’ite Muslims and Engenders Antisemitism Introduction This paper examines the role of Pakistani terrorist group […]
Toulouse gunman was informant of French intelligence?
Russian TV: Mohamed Merah, the notorious killer shot in a stand-off with police a week ago in Toulouse, is still stirring controversy in France. An ex-chief of the French spy […]