Robert Fisk: Peshawar school attack: Massacre of the innocents in Pakistan born of ambivalence towards Taliban. Army and security police have wavered between backing and attacking the group

It was a massacre of the innocents. Every report must admit this – because it’s true. But it is not the whole truth. The historical and all-too-real connections between the Pakistan army, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) security police and the Taliban itself – buoyed by the corruption and self-regard of […]

‘I SAW DEATH’

Newsweek: by A Majeed — A SURVIVOR OF THE TALIBAN ATTACK ON THE ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL IN PESHAWAR RECALLS THE TERRIFYING ORDEAL. A teenage survivor of Tuesday’s Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar has described how he played dead after being shot in both legs by insurgents […]

Canada Apologizes to India for posters

Ottawa quietly apologized to India after Canadian soldiers appeared with posters of Sikh radicals at temple Peter O’Neil, Postmedia News | December 15, 2014 3:13 PM ET More from Postmedia News HandoutLt. Arthur Halpenny (left) accepts a ceremonial sword from Gian Singh Gill of the Dasmesh Darbar temple, during a 2011 […]

In today’s Pakistan, an accusation of blasphemy can be a death sentence

HRW: Pakistan’€™s blasphemy law goes Bollywood Pakistan’s blasphemy law has claimed its first Bollywood victim. DECEMBER 15, 2014 Enlarge Members of the Pakistani Christian community chant slogans during demonstration to condemn the death of a Christian couple on November 6, 2014. © 2014 Reuters Enlarge Employees of Pakistan’s biggest television station, […]