SRINAGAR: Chairman of Kaskmir All parties Hurriat Conference (APHC), Syed Ali Gilani has extended the "Quit Kashmir Movement"for 10 more days. Syed Ali Gilani said that the occupation authorities were trying to suppress the movement by preparing to hold Panchayat and Municipal elections, adding that such tactics would have dangerous consequences.
The calendar includes relaxations on [...]
By FELICITY ARBUTHNOT
… to wade through slaughter … and shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
– Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
THE scale of the disaster caused by the floods in Pakistan, is barely comprehensible. As Juan Cole has written, expressing near disbelief: “The submerged area of the country is as big as the United Kingdom, fourteen million [...]
ASIF HAROON RAJA
GEN MUSHARRAF enjoyed nine-year rule but Pakistan suffered. He was given a royal send off and is still enjoying life abroad but Pakistan continues to bleed because of his unpardonable sins. Had he put some steel in his back and warded off the telephonic pressure from Collin Powel, he could have [...]
UNITED Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said from Pakistan that the flood disaster is the worst he’s ever seen, characterizing the destruction as more dire than that caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2005 Pakistani earthquake. Ban urged the international community to send more relief funds to the area; the country now has [...]
By ASIF HAROON RAJA
INDIA being the sole terrorist state in the region has been playing upon the theme of terrorism since early 1990s but could not make any headway in getting Pakistan declared a terrorist state since USA was not directly affected by terrorism. 9/11 changed the whole scenario and terrorism became the buzzword [...]
By ASIF HAROON RAJA
THE US is deeply concerned that Haqqani network based in North Waziristan (NW) is killing American soldiers in Afghanistan. It complains that the militants have safe havens in FATA which seriously jeopardizes US efforts to defeat militancy. The issue is not whether the militants take off from Pakistan’s [...]
By ASIF HAROON RAJA
WHILE the US leadership is desperate for peaceful resolution of Afghan imbroglio and a face-saving formula guaranteeing safe exit, it doesn’t have any road map. Half-baked plans lacking in sincerity of purpose are bound to boomerang. The US of late has slightly tilted towards Pakistan since no other player in Afghanistan [...]
By STUART LITTLEWOOD
Ever heard of the CMJ (the Church’s Ministry among Jewish People)?
Neither had I until I saw a parish magazine recently announcing a talk by the CMJ’s Director of Advocacy to a local Church of England study group about “God’s purpose for the Jewish people and Great Britain’s involvement in the formation of modern [...]
IANS
As India and Pakistan opened talks Thursday, Jammu and Kashmir separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was detained under a tough law and moderate Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was put under house arrest.
Geelani was booked under the Public Safety Act for making provocative speeches inciting youths to violence, Srinagar District Magistrate Mehraj Ahmad [...]
By KOUROSH ZIABARI
SEEING the footage dispatched from London to TV stations around the world following the massacre of peace activists onboard the Freedom Flotilla embarrassed me for several reasons.
First and foremost, as an Iranian Muslim who ideologically supports and upholds his brothers in religion during crucial times, I found myself incomprehensibly ineffectual as I saw [...]
