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Calling America’s bluff By Kurt Jacobsen and Sayeed Hassan Khan HAS Obama unwittingly called his own bluff? The spooky so-called mastermind Osama Bin Laden is rubbed out, courtesy a Hollywood-style hit squad operation. What more is there to say? Everything, actually. But nervous...

By TAJ M. KHATTAK ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—In 1961, US vice president Lyndon B Johnson shook hands with camel-cart driver Bashir Ahmed during a state visit to Pakistan, patted his camel and said: “You come to Washington and see us sometime.” Bashir’s subsequent twelve-day visit to the US...

I Had Ray Davis’s Job, in Laos 30 Years Ago. Same Cover, Same Lies. By ROBERT ANDERSON The story of Raymond Allen Davis is one familiar to me and I wish our government would quit doing these things – they cost us credibility. Davis is the American being held as a spy working under...

America’s Mala Fide Intent? By Shireen M Mazari It seems there are some in the Pakistani media who will buy into the official US line on Davis and get irked, by the likes of this columnist, enough to name her in their rather histrionic defence of the murderer (regardless of his rather...

It’s not radical Islam that worries the US – it’s independence Noam Chomsky | The Guardian, UK The nature of any regime it backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. Subjects are ignored until they break their chains ‘The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported last week...

The Dangerous “Great Game”: A Global Economic System Erected on Inhuman and Predatory Values by Prof. Mujahid Kamran The control of the US by the wealthiest families of the planet is exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine manner. The elite owns the media, banks, defence and oil...

F-16s’ Debilitating Conditionalities The PAF and the Americans certainly tried to create the perfect photo op with the US Viceregal ambassador Ms Patterson and the Air Chief Rao Qamar smiling for the cameras at Jacobabad air base – once Pakistan’s sove-reign territory but now controlled...

Terrorism: Made in the U.S.A. Sheldon Richman It’s a perilous world, as our so-called leaders love to remind us. And for a change they’re right. It is a perilous world. But guess who is most responsible for the peril to Americans? Those very same “leaders” and a long line of predecessors...

“The purpose of the Afghan war” is to stop the “return of the Caliphate” – UK General A British general telling us which version of Islam is acceptable? This is an interview with UK General “Sir” Richard Dannatt. Isnt it incredible how he tells us...

Apprehension Of Faisal Shahzad: A False Flag To Extend The War On Terror To Pakistan? Recently, the world saw a Pakistani associated to a failed terror attack in New York. The FBI arrested a man named Faisal Shahzad while he was onboard an Emirates flight to leave the United States. According...

Why West fears theft of our nuclear assets By Shahid R. Siddiqi In August 2007, USAF lost track of six Cruise Missiles armed with 150-kiloton nuclear warheads for 36 hours. These were loaded onto a B-52 Bomber at USAF base in North Dakota, were improperly and illegally flown around the...

Incessant Targeting Of Pakistan Dr. Shireen M. Mazari No sooner did Pakistan arrest leading Afghan Taliban figures, conspiracy theories surfaced in the US media in an attempt to malign Pakistan. Indians and their apologists in US were at the forefront of this campaign. Far from...

Light at the End of Afghan Tunnel? Eric Margolis Is it finally light at the end of the Afghan tunnel, or an oncoming express train? Total confusion erupted last week as the US, NATO, the UN and the Kabul government all issued differing views on new plans to end the nine year Afghan war by...

The Expanding US War In Pakistan Jeremy Scahill Three US special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously acknowledged by the White House and Pentagon (see ” The Secret US...

$500m for ‘Safe Exit’ from Afghanistan’s Unforgiving History “Those who do not learn from history, are condemned to repeat it” -George Santana Dan Qayyum After 9 years of maintaining an expensive presence on Afghan soil, thousands of lives and billions wasted in aid and reconstruction...

A Majestic Nation Wajahat Ahmed Shamsi I, as a student from Pakistan in the US, have seen that the majority of my fellow countrymen regardless of their age or gender are not proud of who they are and this shocks me. They are mostly pulled into the paranoia created by the Indians&#8217...

Aman ke Asha – A Cornerstone of the new Indian Cold Start Strategy? Ahmed Shahid Just one day after the Indian army chief, Deepak Kapoor, gave out a statement promoting going to war with Pakistan and China at the same time (with him painting a picture of New Delhi annihilating Pakistan...

Jinnah: The Man of the Hour Much has been written about our Quaid, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, about the amazing leadership qualities that he possessed and the determination and strength with which he fought for the attainment of an independent State for the Muslims of the subcontinent. His...

Indian Lawyer exposes Police, RAW dramas of creating fake terrorists with fake Pak links Bureau Report NEW DELHI—The Indian police authorities and the officials of india’s notorious intelligence agency RAW are known for creating fake terrorists with their fake links to Pakistan...

A Requiem For Those Who Shall Live For Ever Contributed by Brigadier Raashid Wali Janjua Gallant men who are cut off by the sword Move rather our veneration than our pity (Richard Steele) In blossom today than scattered, life is so like a delicate flower. After all how can you expect...