Jan 9 2006
Sri Lanka, the island country in the Bay of Bengal is on the brink of recurrence of civil war though the 2002 ceasefire, brokered by Norway, is still technically holding, violence in the Tamil-dominated Jaffna peninsula in the north Sri Lanka has risen...
Jan 7 2006
The Shia-Sunni animosity in the strife-torn Iraq is on the rise. For Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda man, considered number two in the dreaded organisation hierarchy, there are three enemies: ‘Crusaders’, Jews and rawafidh (literally...
Jan 7 2006
Bangladesh, which came into existence only four decades ago as an independent country following the partition of Pakistan, is a predominantly Muslim country but has always remained steeped into liberal and rich traditions of communal amity, leaving...
Jan 7 2006
The Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, sandwitched between two Asian giants, India and China is ruled by a king, the only Hindu King in the world. In its chequered history during the last six decades, the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) -Maoists has established...
Jan 1 2006
Asia: (1) Pakistan will continue to operate as a rogue country. Taliban’s propensity to flee into Pakistan, then to rest and re-arm, seemingly at will, will remain unbridlled. The monster cannot be caged. (2) Afghanistan will continue to march...
Dec 28 2005
The suspected terrorists opened fire in a congregation of scientists at the high tech city of Bangalore on Wednesday night. Bangalore, an IT success story in Asia, was on the radar of terrorists. One professor was killed and at least five persons were...
Dec 28 2005
(1.) Peru- On the New Year Day Antauo Humalo, a retired Peruvian army major seized a police station in a small town taking 17 hostages. He called on Alejandro Toledo, Peru’s democratic president to resign; The president dismissed the incident as...
Dec 27 2005
A debate is in vogue that whether Osma bin Laden is alive or dead. It is of no use as terrorism is like a hydra. If Osama no longer exists, someone else will assume his mantle and carry on to advance nefarious activities. Till a rational approach is not...
Dec 26 2005
Samar Dahmash Jarrahan, an Arab-American Muslim writer who lives in Florida says many Muslims do condemn terrorism — we just don`t hear about it in the American news media. It is inaudibility syndrome for which Muslims themselves are responsible....
Dec 26 2005
A book on ‘Religious Demography’ , a meticulous research work, by a Chennai(India-based socio-economic research body, the center for policy studies (CPS)disclosed that the share of Indian Religions- Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism -...