-By Malladi Rama Rao In the backdrop of rising tension at sea with China, the Philippines is all set to modernise its military, particularly its aged fleet. Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario was in Washington this week to enlist the US help in his country’s resolve to ‘stand up to any aggressive action’. His...
By Nathan Hughes STRATFOR Special U.S. President Barack Obama announced June 22 that the long process of drawing down forces in Afghanistan would begin on schedule in July. Though the initial phase of the drawdown appears limited, minimizing the tactical and operational impact on the ground in the immediate future, the United States and...
By Barry Grey A report released Friday by the US Labor Department on state and regional employment in May provides new evidence that the slump is accelerating and the jobs crisis in America is worsening. The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 27 of the 50 states recorded a net decline in...
By SADAF ARSHAD* New Delhi (Syndicate Features): No pleasantries to exchange and no truth to be told. One man, Saleem Shahzad is dead today and mysteriously buried under tons of mud leaving behind a wife with three kids and thousands of mourners. Another man, Ilyas Kahmiri, is reported to have been killed by a...
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan`s Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party-AKP) has won a fresh mandate in the 17th general election held on Sunday, June 12. It is third straight victory for another four-year term with 49.95 per cent vote share. Erdogan has thus equalled Adnan Menderes’s record set in the fifties....
By Sadia Dehlvi Sultan Bahu founded the Sarwari Qadri Order, an offshoot of the Qadri Order. From his original name of Sultan Muhammad, he came to be called Bahu (one who is with Him), for his constant remembrance of Hu, He Alone. He wrote, ‘With one dot Bahu Becomes Ya Hu, and Bahu is...
Top Taliban commander Omar Khalid Khorasani says (in this video on The Guardian,UK) death of Osama bin Laden has given his fighters ‘new courage’. He also says their goal is to change Pakistan.
By SAAD SARFRAZ SHEIKH* (Syndicate Features): Pakistan continues to make headlines under the masthead of being the world’s deadliest country for journalists. Statistically, 16 journalists have been killed in Pakistan the past 14 months; some of the worst excesses occurred in the restive Balochistan province. “These journalists work under extremely dangerous circumstances”, says noted...
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