There were more than 700 participants from 36 countries in “Palestine our Route, Humanitarian aid our load” flotilla, which was bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza; they had come together to ensure that the illegal siege to which the people of Gaza were being subjected should come onto the International agenda. This organisation which was completely [...]
Just over a month ago (Oct 14/09) Palestinian geographer and director of the “Center for Global Consciousness” Saed Abu-Hijleh spoke at the University of Toronto. Traveling to the North American continent was no escape: Canadian Border services had put him through the ringer at Pearson airport, the border agent asking him whether he would “say [...]
Britain’s top judge has expressed concern about the use of pilot-less drones as weapons of war. His comments come at a time when there is a growing international concern about the danger these pose to the civilians.
Drones have become an important weapon against the Taliban in the remote mountainous borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports [...]
I have just returned home from office and I am fuming from toe to head. At every signal where I stopped I saw banners upon banners calling names to Israel and proclaiming solidarity with the people of Gaza. Hoardings and roadsides walls are littered with slogans like ‘ Israel ka jo yar hai, ghaddar hai [...]
It was bravo of Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a Muslim country leader to have walked out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 29 January, in retaliation for not allowing him sufficiently by the moderator to answer to the speech of Israeli President Shimon Peres. [...]
Former Mossad intelligence officer Victor John Ostrovsky in his two extraordinary non-fiction books; ‘By Way of Deception’ and ‘The Other Side of Deception’; reveals and goes far deeper into the Mossad’s frightening and often ruthless covert activities. He describes, how Mossad through the use of deception, duped the Americans into bombing Libya. The operation which [...]
Numerous analysts have said that “Israel will not allow a full-blown humanitarian crisis in Gaza”. First of all, I am not sure how they would define a “full-blown” crisis. Can the current crisis reach “half-blown” status at least? The place is rubble. Sanitation, electricity, and drinking water facilities are destroyed. Hospitals are destroyed. The systems [...]
The reaction against Israel brutal bombardments on hapless Palestinian muslims among the masses of western and non muslim world are greater compared to the one in muslim umma ( ironically most of muslim countries are showing less or no disquiet ) Large protest demonstrations have been held across the Europe as well as in several [...]
Even as we in Pakistan are confronted with multiple developments and issues, the slaughter of innocent Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of a murderous Zionist state has focused our emotions of anger, helplessness and frustration alongside similarly displayed emotions across the civil societies of the world. For the Muslims in particular the attempted genocide [...]
