Indian politicians’ intimate dealings with the American embassy in New Delhi has created a political storm following the publication ofpublishing of recent WikiLeaks revelations. The “Pundits” and important section of media in India is likely to defend America and defame Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, a standard tactics of those who stand to gain by the [...]
If Pakistan and the US were a married couple, instead of being strategic players, counselors would recommend at least a long trial separation, if not a total divorce. This conclusion appeared after a marathon brain-storming session organised at Washington DC on Pakistan’s future and the US role that lasted for nearly five hours.
One wishes that [...]
Yes, that’s exactly what the British celebrity woman Jemima Khan, former wife of the world’s legendary cricketer Imran Khan, has to say. All governments lie at some time or the other. But when the web of lies becomes untenable and threaten world peace and financial security, then the alarm bells are set off. Jemima Khan [...]
The United States demanded today that the U.N. expert on Palestinian human rights be fired for suggesting that 9/11 was carried out by the U.S. government and then covered up by the American media.
“In my view, Mr. [Richard] Falk’s latest commentary is so noxious that it should finally be plain to all that he should [...]
In Pakistan, a battle has been joined by those who want a tolerant Islamic state against those who want a fundamentalist religious regime.
The killing in Pakistan earlier this month of Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer has cheered the religious right while chilling secular Pakistanis and exposing deep fissures in the society.
The governor was gunned down in [...]
“This is a moving story published in The Telegraph (http://bit.ly/hk2PXB) about Aatish Taseer, the son of my dear friend and a journalist colleague Tavleen Singh (we were young reporters with The Statesman, New Delhi, in the 1970s)… She is still a daring journalist (once she told me with pride that she [...]
Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret “kill team” that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.
Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. Seven others are accused of covering up the [...]
For the moment, Pastor Terry Jones and the Islamic world appear to have reached a truce. The Florida pastor on Thursday called off plans to burn 200 Korans, saying he would instead travel to New York Saturday to talk with the imam of the mosque near ground zero about moving the Islamic center elsewhere.
But as [...]
Imam Muhammad Musri of Orlando had never met the Reverend Terry Jones of Gainesville when he drove up to the Dove World Outreach Centre and decided to talk to the Islam-hating pastor who planned to burn 200 Korans, Musri’s religion’s sacred text.
First, he had to walk past signs that said “Islam is of the devil” [...]
Ariel Merari, a retired professor of psychology at Tel Aviv University in Israel, adds yet another interesting dimension to the plethora of research work that exists to study the minds of suicide bombers. Professor Merari says in his latest book that among the suicide bombers he interviewed “none were any more militant than the average [...]
