Pakistan-US plan falls into place
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KARACHI - The seamless friendship between the chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, and Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General...
Detainee claims to have lied under CIA torture
ABC News Tue Jun 16, 10:03 am ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an accused top Al-Qaeda operative and self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, claimed to have lied under torture by the CIA, according to...
Russia, China should dump dollar in trade - Medvedev
Fri Jun 5, 2009 3:07pm IST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and China should consider switching to domestic currencies in bilateral trade without going to the dollar, Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Kommersant...
Why Zulfiqar Ali should not die
ZULFIQAR Ali, a prisoner on death row in Adiala jail since April 1998, is to be hanged. There is confusion about the date.
Since September 2008 when President Asif Zardari rejected Zulfiqars final mercy petition, the condemned prisoner has been...
Pakistans neo-Taliban
By I.A. Rehman
Thursday, 30 Apr, 2009 | 06:58 AM PST The neo-Taliban have lost all claim to leniency. They must be made to face the full might of the state, except for those who can be trusted with mending their ways.
THE militants tactical retreat...
Congrats to India for good performance.
India win Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
IPOH: India clinched their fourth Sultan Azlan Shah Cup when they defeated hosts Malaysia 3-1 in the final here on Sunday, giving them a huge boost ahead of the Asia Cup next month, AFP reports.
The Indians...
IB Chief reveals classified info in Supreme Court hearing
Saturday, 11 Apr, 2009 | 09:17 PM PST |
ISLAMABAD: In a news exclusive, Dawn News has learned that civilian intelligence chief Shoaib Suddle has revealed classified information during a Supreme Court hearing.
According to court...
Woman claims being mother of Ajmal Kasab
Updated at: 2103 PST, Friday, April 10, 2009
MUMBAI: Ahead of the trial of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone
surviving 26/11 terrorist, a woman claiming to be his mother came to the Mumbai Police headquarters last week seeking a meeting with...
Muslims sidelined in Indian politics: cleric
NEW DELHI: The chief cleric at India's largest mosque delivered a stinging attack against the country's major parties Friday, less then a week before the country's general elections.
Syed Ahmed Bukhari of New Delhi's Jama mosque said...
Nehru-Edwina affair responsible for Partition
Mumbai:
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has claimed that the love affair between Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten was responsible for compromising on the sovereignity of the country.
In an interview to Sena mouthpiece...
Pak agencies involved in interfering in Afghanistan: Minister
Fri, 2009-04-03 04:14
By Farzana Shah-Asian Tribune Correspondent in Pakistan
Peshawar, 03 April, (Asiantribune.com): Information Minister of North West Frontier Province Iftikhar Hussain on Thursday termed Pakistan's...
India using Afghan soil to destabilise Pakistan
Afghan MPs for immediate pullout of foreign troops
Tanvir Siddiqi
IslamabadThe visiting Afghan Parliamentarians have called for immediate pull out of foreign troops and involvement of genuine stakeholders in the peace process to establish...
No beard, Indian court tells Muslim student
NEW DELHI, April 1 Indias Supreme Court has rejected the plea of a Muslim student in a Christian missionary school that he be allowed to sport a beard to conform with his religious beliefs.
Justice Markandeya Katju, in delivering the judgment on...
The truth about Abu Zubaydah
The Bush administrations false claim that Zayn was a top al-Qaeda official has led to his imprisonment and torture
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
By Brent Mickum
Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, more commonly known as Abu Zubaydah, is my client. After...
Experts wonder why secret info is being given to TV
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
By Rauf Klasra
ISLAMABAD: Security officials and experts are at a loss to understand why Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik rejected the desperate pleas of some secret agencies, particularly the Military...
Bangladesh lacks access to trans-boundary waters
Bangladesh has long been deprived of due shares of waters of trans-boundary rivers in the absence of effective water-sharing formulas and agreements with upper riparian countries, especially India.
This is the state in matters...
Afghanistan:Harsh reality, tough love
By Philip Smucker
LETI KANDAL PASS, Kunar province - Stone by stone, the new United States military outposts are being built along this lawless frontier that has proven a bane to Alexander the Great, the 14th-century conqueror Tamerlane and - most...
Taseers son writes shocking memoirs about his father
Friday, March 13, 2009
By Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: Aatish Taseer, the 29-year old son of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, who is a journalist and lives in London, has written a book, a personal memoir, about his life story...
TNSM flexing muscles: Sufi Muhammad warns Swat judges to stay away from courts
Wed, 2009-03-18 06:24
By Farzana Shah-Asian Tribune correspondent in Pakistan
16 judges left Swat, fear for life
Peshawar, 18 March, (Asiantribune.com): Atleast sixteen Sufi Muhammadjudges including...