NEW DELHI: Former president General Pervez Musharraf has said he would consider returning to politics again provided he was invited to play a useful role for the country, Press Trust of India said on Saturday, quoting from an interview he gave to an Indian TV channel. ‘If someone offers, I will see whether I can […]
WANA, PAKISTAN: Taliban militants claimed to have shot down a US drone in the Angoor Adda area of South Waziristan on Saturday. Militants loyal to Taliban commander Maulvi Mohammad Nazir said the unmanned aircraft had crashed in a jungle after the attack and soldiers took away the wreckage. But security officials and political authorities disputed […]
Not everyone in America or England knows this, but today is International Women’s Day, an official holiday in Russia. Ironically, while the USSR had long prided itself on its feminist stance and some well-deserved progress in gender equality, Women’s Day often felt more like a mix of Valentines and Mother’s day, an orgy of flowers, […]
In an effort to improve the relationship between Fatah and Hamas through the pursuit of reconcilliation talks, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned yesterday, effective at the end of the month. Hamas demanded his resignation due to his pro-U.S. stances opposed by the radical Islamic group. President Mahmud Abbas, however, requested that Fayyad continue fulfilling […]
A scientist at the Centre for Northern Studies at Laval University in Quebec has reported that the Arctic could be free of summer sea ice by 2013 (Reuters). In 2004, scientists from eight Arctic nations working on the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, a study commissioned by the Arctic Council, found that the sea ice could […]
Kazakhstan has been living it up the last decade, maintaining nearly 10% growth due to high LNG and oil prices. The government built an insane new capital, as seen above, while migrants from the other Central Asian countries came to work in Kazakhstan. Now the economy has been hit hard hard by the worldwide drop […]
Ciudad Juarez is right on the border between the United States and Mexico, and since it was founded in the 17th century it has been a coveted price for guerrilla fighters, catholic congregations, revolutionary armies, as well as drug traffickers and the modern federal armed forces. Although the number of drug cartel members is not […]
in the March/April Foreign Affairs, by Bernard Lewis. The title is “Free at Last?” (You’ll have to pay/go to the library to read it … I’m sorry). Since it’s Bernard Lewis, a desire to avoid that awkward moment at a cocktail party with other politics nerds where this article is referenced and you look blank […]
Speaking yesterday in Brussels, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirmed that climate change will be a major are of investment for the US and that it would be an area of co-operation internationally & with the EU: “We are committed to a cap-and-trade system, but also to a number of other things. We are […]
NEW DELHI: Flames of terrorism from Pakistan are leaping across the borders and, unless checked with a sense of urgency, could engulf the world, more so India, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here on Friday. Inaugurating an international conclave that will be addressed on Saturday by former president Gen Pervez Musharraf, Mr Mukherjee urged international […]
LONDON/LAHORE: Pakistan is facing a “mortal threat” from its internal enemies amid worsening security in the country, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday. It is now vital that rival democratic forces unite to combat the “very grave” security situation, he told BBC radio in the wake of the attack on the Sri Lanka […]
PAKISTANIS have become so accustomed to terrorist attacks that they are almost incapable of shock when fresh horror strikes. But the attempted massacre of the Sri Lankan cricket team penetrated even the thickest skin, and brought home to us yet again what a murderous place Pakistan has become. However, despite the familiar nature of the […]
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