Pakistan is crumbling, Is India Prepared?
Reports from Pakistan indicate that institutions of the state are heading for collapse. The Indian leadership represented by the inept troika of Sonia-Manmohan-Rahul seems indifferent, concerned about protecting More...
Sydney Wignall and the Chinese built Aksai Chin road
The story of how Jawaharlal Nehru and Krishna Menon kept the country in the dark about the Chinese incursion in Aksai Chin even though they had been fully informed. Later reports were kept sealed to protect Nehru’s More...
Washington’s revenge
Column by M.J. Akbar When Abraham Lincoln was told at the height of the devastating civil war that his most successful general, Ulysses Grant, was drinking too much he wanted to know the brand of Grant’s favourite More...
Nervous Libyans ready for first taste of democracy
Libyans will vote in their first free national poll in more than half a century on Saturday amid fears that violence could taint an election meant to usher in a temporary national assembly and draw a line under More...
Long road ahead in U.S.-Pakistan ties after NATO deal
Pakistan and the United States are set to resume broader talks on security cooperation, militant threats, aid and other issues in the wake of an agreement to reopen supply routes into Afghanistan, Pakistan’s More...
33 years jail sentence for helping CIA track Osama Bin Laden
Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi was convicted of high treason by a four-member tribal court in the semi autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD – The United States has threatened More...
US drone strikes kill 14 suspected militants inside Pakistan territory
Undated handout image courtesy of the U.S. Air Force shows a MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft. Image by: HO / Reuters Peshawar, PAKISTAN – Two US drone attacks, conducted on Thursday, has killed – at More...
US does it again: Drones kill key commander of al-Qaida inside Pakistan
Islamabad, PAKISTAN – A US drone attack targeting a house in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region near Afghan border on Thursday is said to have killed at least four suspected militants including a key More...
United States to cut 100,000 ground troops to accommodate $487 billion defense cuts
Washington – Forced with budget cuts by over $500 billion over 10 years, the United States government has decided to trim its ground troops. However, it will create a “cutting-edge force” for tactical More...
US talking to insurgent groups in Afghanistan
Khost (Afghanistan) – Senior US military and Afghan civilian officials have opened talks with an insurgent group led by a notorious Afghan warlord, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, according to media reports. Ghairat More...
