Apr 14 2006
Pakistani forces claim to have killed an Egyptian al Qaeda terrorist wanted by the United States over the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. Mohsin Musa Matawalli Atwah, 45, was killed late Wednesday in a Pakistani military raid led...
Apr 14 2006
Strange happenings are taking place in ‘Nizam-e-Ilahi’ (countries where the religion of the state is Islam). Till a few weeks ago, such opinion would attract the allegation of being apostate. It is a heartening and positive development since it was...
Apr 13 2006
It is hardly surprising that the Communist North Korea and obscurantist Iran, led by hawks continue to be threat to the peace in the world by sticking to their ambitious nuclear programmes to develop atom bomb. They have scant regard to the countries...
Apr 13 2006
Nepal, the tiny Himalayan country, sandwiched between two mighty Asian Tigers, India and China, continue to be rocked by violent unrest, entering into eight days. While the international opinion is fast turning against the despotic ruler of Nepal, King...
Mar 4 2006
The United States of America seems to have put an end to its honeymoon with the Asian dragon People’s Republic of China and prefered to adopt Asian tiger India. The recently concluded Indo-US nuclear deal in India is a pointer towards that...
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Mar 1 2006
The energy chapter of the economic report makes the following statement, almost casually: “Although oil prices have risen to more than $60 a barrel in recent months, they have averaged as low as $25 per barrel within the last five years. Having...
Feb 27 2006
It again seems the masterstroke of the U.S. and its allies to strangulate the al Jazeera, the Arabic TV channel, based at Doha and owned by the Amir of Qatar, a Middle East country. The channel which now has added a 24 hours English language service...
Feb 22 2006
Muslims for Secular Democracy, a group of eminent Muslim scholars and intellectuals in India, the country with Muslim population second to Indonesia, have mustered courage to demand prosecution of a provincial minister who announced a US $ 12 million...
Feb 21 2006
Never before bigotry in the world on such a large scale had it so pervading as it is today in the wake of ongoing ‘clash of civilizations’following the cartoon wars, described by The Economist as the’battle for...
Feb 16 2006
Successive Pakistan’s rulers have successfully played the ‘threat from Islamist terrorists’ card’ to blackmail successive U.S. governments during the last five decades plus of the existence of the Islamic Republic but the present...