Calling America’s bluff
By Kurt Jacobsen and Sayeed Hassan Khan
HAS Obama unwittingly called his own bluff? The spooky so-called mastermind Osama Bin Laden is rubbed out, courtesy a Hollywood-style hit squad operation. What more is there to say?
Everything, actually. But nervous...
By TAJ M. KHATTAK
ISLAMABAD, PakistanIn 1961, US vice president Lyndon B Johnson shook hands with camel-cart driver Bashir Ahmed during a state visit to Pakistan, patted his camel and said: You come to Washington and see us sometime.
Bashirs subsequent twelve-day visit to the US...
I Had Ray Daviss Job, in Laos 30 Years Ago. Same Cover, Same Lies.
By ROBERT ANDERSON
The story of Raymond Allen Davis is one familiar to me and I wish our government would quit doing these things they cost us credibility.
Davis is the American being held as a spy working under...
Americas Mala Fide Intent?
By Shireen M Mazari
It seems there are some in the Pakistani media who will buy into the official US line on Davis and get irked, by the likes of this columnist, enough to name her in their rather histrionic defence of the murderer (regardless of his rather...
Its not radical Islam that worries the US its independence
Noam Chomsky | The Guardian, UK
The nature of any regime it backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. Subjects are ignored until they break their chains
The Arab world is on fire, al-Jazeera reported last week...
The Dangerous Great Game: A Global Economic System Erected on Inhuman and Predatory Values
by Prof. Mujahid Kamran
The control of the US by the wealthiest families of the planet is exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine manner. The elite owns the media, banks, defence and oil...
F-16s Debilitating Conditionalities
The PAF and the Americans certainly tried to create the perfect photo op with the US Viceregal ambassador Ms Patterson and the Air Chief Rao Qamar smiling for the cameras at Jacobabad air base once Pakistans sove-reign territory but now controlled...
Terrorism: Made in the U.S.A.
Sheldon Richman
Its a perilous world, as our so-called leaders love to remind us. And for a change theyre right. It is a perilous world. But guess who is most responsible for the peril to Americans? Those very same leaders and a long line of predecessors...
“The purpose of the Afghan war” is to stop the “return of the Caliphate” – UK General
A British general telling us which version of Islam is acceptable? This is an interview with UK General “Sir” Richard Dannatt.
Isnt it incredible how he tells us...
Apprehension Of Faisal Shahzad: A False Flag To Extend The War On Terror To Pakistan?
Recently, the world saw a Pakistani associated to a failed terror attack in New York. The FBI arrested a man named Faisal Shahzad while he was onboard an Emirates flight to leave the United States. According...
Why West fears theft of our nuclear assets
By Shahid R. Siddiqi
In August 2007, USAF lost track of six Cruise Missiles armed with 150-kiloton nuclear warheads for 36 hours. These were loaded onto a B-52 Bomber at USAF base in North Dakota, were improperly and illegally flown around the...
Incessant Targeting Of Pakistan
Dr. Shireen M. Mazari
No sooner did Pakistan arrest leading Afghan Taliban figures, conspiracy theories surfaced in the US media in an attempt to malign Pakistan. Indians and their apologists in US were at the forefront of this campaign. Far from...
Light at the End of Afghan Tunnel?
Eric Margolis
Is it finally light at the end of the Afghan tunnel, or an oncoming express train? Total confusion erupted last week as the US, NATO, the UN and the Kabul government all issued differing views on new plans to end the nine year Afghan war by...
The Expanding US War In Pakistan
Jeremy Scahill
Three US special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously acknowledged by the White House and Pentagon (see The Secret US...
$500m for Safe Exit from Afghanistans Unforgiving History
Those who do not learn from history, are condemned to repeat it -George Santana
Dan Qayyum
After 9 years of maintaining an expensive presence on Afghan soil, thousands of lives and billions wasted in aid and reconstruction...
A Majestic Nation
Wajahat Ahmed Shamsi
I, as a student from Pakistan in the US, have seen that the majority of my fellow countrymen regardless of their age or gender are not proud of who they are and this shocks me. They are mostly pulled into the paranoia created by the Indians’...
Aman ke Asha A Cornerstone of the new Indian Cold Start Strategy?
Ahmed Shahid
Just one day after the Indian army chief, Deepak Kapoor, gave out a statement promoting going to war with Pakistan and China at the same time (with him painting a picture of New Delhi annihilating Pakistan...
Jinnah: The Man of the Hour
Much has been written about our Quaid, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, about the amazing leadership qualities that he possessed and the determination and strength with which he fought for the attainment of an independent State for the Muslims of the subcontinent. His...
Indian Lawyer exposes Police, RAW dramas of creating fake terrorists with fake Pak links
Bureau Report
NEW DELHI—The Indian police authorities and the officials of india’s notorious intelligence agency RAW are known for creating fake terrorists with their fake links to Pakistan...
A Requiem For Those Who Shall Live For Ever
Contributed by Brigadier Raashid Wali Janjua
Gallant men who are cut off by the sword
Move rather our veneration than our pity
(Richard Steele)
In blossom today than scattered, life is so like a delicate flower. After all how can you expect...