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The Failed Social Contract

By Dr. Haider Mehdi • Jul 16th, 2011 • Category: Politics

“It is time to stop raising the Islamist threat in the face of those clamoring for change and revolution…even the term ‘fundamentalists’ is a fabrication of the western media, which exploited their existence in ‘several Muslim’ countries for vested interests…The so-called Islamist danger which is talked very much about is in actual fact a nasty [...]



Pakistani Media Inciting Pakistanis to Attack American Embassy

By Gul Raiz • Jul 12th, 2011 • Category: Politics

We are not going to learn anything. We are still living in our confused ideals and instead of understanding the international realities and our position, we are trying to pull out some very dangerous tricks out of our hands. In their quest of ratings and their ambition of leading the nation, the private media channels [...]



Pakistan International School in Damascus Run By Family of Ambassador

By Haris Hashmi • Feb 23rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

The new Pakistani ambassador to Syria, appointed by President Zardari, has summarily sacked the entire staff and faculty of the Pakistan International School in Damascus and appointed almost all his immediate family members for a collective monthly salary of $38,000 (Rs3.2 million).
The sacked teachers and staff members of the school run by the embassy, who [...]



Hazrat Data Gunj Bakhsh!

By Mian Usman • Sep 6th, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh [Shaikh Abul Hasan Ali Bin Usman al-Hujwiri al-Jullabi al-Ghaznawi]
Any one writing on Hazrat Ali bin Usman Al-Hujwiri, in spite of his popularity amongst all classes of people and the deep veneration in which he has been held for nearly 900 years, is faced with considerable difficulty. There is no authentic biography [...]



Like Gaza, Muslim World Won’t Help Pakistan When India Attacks

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Gaza is burning and Gazans are dying, 99% of them Muslims. Egypt keeps its’ blockage of Gaza and supports Israel silently while the Arab world utter some weak squeals from their harems amidst the beauties of world. Who cares for Gaza, when the oil prices are dropping like hell and the sustenance of the luxuries [...]



Hezbollah’s Passion: A New lesson of war

By A Khokar • Jan 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In the recent history of Middle East; Hezbollah’s passion demonstrated in the Lebanon War 0f 2006 has shown a new way to the Arabs in particular and also to all the resilient resistance movements struggling for their freedom around the world that nothing dares standing in the way of their ‘will power’.
A rag-tag Hezbollah; when [...]



Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims

By fzuberi • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:16:21 GMT

Medics tell Press TV they have found traces of depleted uranium in some Gaza residents wounded in Israel’s ground offensive on the strip.
Norwegian medics told Press TV correspondent Akram al-Sattari that some of the victims who have been wounded since Israel began its attacks on the Gaza Strip on [...]



Gaza Crisis & Barack Obama’s Silence

By Swaraaj Chauhan • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Gaza crisis has been described as a recurring Middle Eastern nightmare. I can understand why US president-elect has decided to keep quiet. He has inherited a tragedy/madness whose history dates back to almost 100 years of political skulduggery of the powerful Western nations in that part of the world dividing the Jews and Arabs who [...]



This Kind of War

By Justin Podur • Jan 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The current crisis in Gaza began with Israel’s breaking the ceasefire with Hamas on November 4, 2008. The five-month ceasefire was unsustainable for two reasons. First and most importantly, because it condemned the Palestinians of Gaza to a slow and wasting death: part of the ceasefire was the continuation of Israel’s blockade of Gaza. As [...]



Giving Israel more Time to Weaken Hamas in Gaza

By A Khokar • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Daily Haaretz, Jerusalem (not so conservative) Israeli news paper says in their analysis:
 The international community, headed by the U.S. and Egypt, is giving Israel time to carry out the ground offensive in Gaza, so it will severely damage Hamas’ regime. The rationale behind such a move is that a weakened Hamas would improve the chances [...]