Assange says ready for life in Ecuador
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks at a news conference in London (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday that he was ready for a life in Ecuador and said the country had been “quite More...
Children of Mao’s wrath vie for power in China
By Chris Buckley (Reuters) – Forty five years before ambitious Chinese politician Bo Xilai fell from power accused of flirting with Cultural Revolution extremism, he stood as a teenager in front of a baying More...
Kashmir 1947– what really happened?
Guest column by Sandhya Jain - Kashmir interlocutors: perpetuating Nehru’s blunder By suddenly inviting debate on the interlocutors report on Jammu and Kashmir, especially its startling suggestion to restore More...
Death Sentence for former Tunisian President?
Former Tunisian President Zine El Abedine Ben Ali TUNIS, Tunisia: Former Tunisian President Zine El Abedine Ben Ali, who has been charged in absentia with ordering the killings of anti-government demonstrators and 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...
Fatwa: Islam’s Murder by Fiat
Column by Amil Imani - Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most celebrated person with an Islamic bounty on his head and has been for decades. The man was condemned to death by Ayatollah Khomeini, without the least due More...
Looking beyond the Indus Script: Story of Vedic Harappans
A decade since Jha and Rajaram presented their findings, there have been significant developments that show that the script was one piece of a larger picture that connects Harappan archaeology to the Vedic literature, More...
Gilani escapes again as Pakistan lurches on to the next crisis
For those looking at Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, as he stood with his head bowed in the country’s Supreme Court for all of 32 seconds on Friday morning, it seemed as if once again More...
How Powerful is Hafiz Saeed?
Column by Stephen Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi - Is Pakistani radical Islamist Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, at 61 years of age, the most powerful man in the world? Observing events of the past month, one might be justified More...
Nazareth imam convicted of inciting terror
Preacher established Salafist group with ‘global Jihad’ al-Qaida ideology. The Nazareth Magistrate’s Court on Sunday convicted the imam of a mosque in the city on charges of incitement to violence More...
