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India block Pakistan-born Khawaja's visa SYDNEY (AFP), Tue, Aug 09 2011 Pakistan-born Australian batsman Usman Khawaja on Tuesday said he was being refused a visa into India for next month's Champions League Twenty20 tournament because of his country of birth. Khawaja vented his anger...

`36pc of Pakistanis undernourished` ISLAMABAD: Leading aid and development charity Oxfam said 36 per cent of Pakistanis were undernourished, listing Pakistan among the 21 nations of the world which were found to be undernourished according to an interactive map published on Wednesday...

Pakistan's Human Cockroaches Pakistan, you are a failed state. Not because of Zardari. Not because of America. But because you are a failed people, all of us undeserving of sympathy. We are diseased, rotten to every brain stem, world please make an impenetrable fence around us, keep us all in...

Al Qaeda shifting to Pakistan’s urban areas By Ali K Chishti Al Qaeda is gradually shifting its base from the unsafe and spy-infested tribal belt of Pakistan – which is under the radars of virtually all intelligence agencies – to more secure, urban areas of the country, which according to...

Pakistan is the Afghan war's real aggressor By Rangin Dadfar Spanta Monday, August 23, 2010 After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Afghanistan became a rare example of international consensus. The global community, amid competing regional and international interests, undertook a...

Indian Muslims want 'Ground Zero Mosque' relocated The Washington-based Association of Indian Muslims of America asked the Cordoba Institute and other promoters of the Islamic Center termed as the 'Ground Zero Mosque' to relocate it in the interest of the larger good of the community. A...

Sri Lanka's image is suffering Days after setting up an internal commission to check into alleged human-rights abuses during the armed conflict against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse orchestrated a dishonourable discharge of his former...

Tamil migrants claim they were fleeing mass murders in Sri Lanka OTTAWA — Tamil migrants who arrived in British Columbia last week say they were fleeing mass murders, disappearances and extortion in Sri Lanka. The National Post obtained two letters claiming to be from groups of migrants...

India's visa rule is unfairly persecuting innocent Pakistanis Being born in Pakistan is not a evidence of predisposition to commit terrorist acts. The visa rules are racist, and must change Most people would be shocked if they went to the visa website of a London embassy and read...

China milk powder blamed for 'baby breasts' BEIJING (AFP) – Parents and doctors in central China fear that hormones in milk powder they fed their infant daughters have led the babies to prematurely develop breasts, state media reported Monday. Medical tests indicated the levels of hormones...

“The blasphemy law is damaging Islam” - I. A. Rehman, Secretary-General, HRCP IARehman07-10 Q: You have been directly involved in supporting human rights in Pakistan for decades. It seems as though the rights of religious minorities have diminished over the years. Is this true...

Pakistani flooding could lead to Taliban's resurgence By Griff Witte Sunday, August 8, 2010; 1:44 PM CHARSADDA, PAKISTAN -- The slow-motion disaster underway in Pakistan as floodwaters seep into virtually every corner of the nation has devastated basic infrastructure and could open the...

Pakistan’s military and elite are holding it back: US analyst ‘US is just responding to India as a growing power and Pakistan needs to up its game’ KARACHI: There are two groups in Pakistan that hinder its growth, first the military and second the socio-political elite who have their own...

Everyday intolerance By Rafia Zakaria Wednesday, 04 Aug, 2010 Judging from news accounts, the Pakistani military has been making significant inroads against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the tribal agencies and Swat valley. In a report published by the Critical Threats Project...

Does such barbarism exist in Pakistan?.:disagree:

Just walk away:Time to dump Pakistan WHAT Washington calls "strategy" is usually just inertia: We can't imagine not supporting Pakistan because we've "always" supported Pakistan. No matter how shamelessly Pakistan's leaders looted their own country, protected the Taliban, sponsored...

Pakistan: Struggling to See a Country of Shards By SABRINA TAVERNISE LAHORE, Pakistan — On a spring night in Lahore, I came face to face with all that is puzzling about Pakistan. I had just interviewed Mobarak Haidar, a Pakistani author who was confidently predicting the end of the world...