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Posts Tagged ‘Cambodia’

Protection of Peacekeepers

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Aug 25th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Pakistan has an enviable record of contribution towards global security, peace and stability under the auspices of United Nations. Since 1960, Pakistan has been actively involved in most of the UN peacekeeping missions and today stands at the top with 10,175 troops and observers serving the ongoing missions. So far Pakistan has participated in 41 [...]



Pentagon’s Role in Global Catastrophe

By Guest Blogger • Dec 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets — it is important to ask: How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other toxic emissions on [...]



Pakistan: a New Cambodia?

By Isha Khan • Feb 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Twenty-two people – 8 to 10 alleged Al-Qaeda and Taliban members, the rest civilians, including children - were killed on January 23, 2009, when Predator drones operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency fired missiles at houses in Pakistan’s ‘Federally Administered Tribal Areas.’ About 30 such missile attacks are on record since the summer of [...]