The Crusades begin in Afghanistan! A U.S. church raised money to send Bibles, printed in the Pashtu and Dari languages, to American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, a report on Al Jazeera documented Sunday night. It is against military rules to proselytize — a regulation one of the soldiers filmed by the network readily acknowledged. “You [...]
Read more →Do you have any ideas on what can be done to empower the people of the nation rather than complaining about not having the high-powered tools to fight terrorists after they have launched an attack? I, like many other Pakistanis, have spent a lot of time getting pissed off over the sheer number of terrorist [...]
Read more →Daniel Markey, senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote an interesting piece in Foreign Policy magazine called “Zardari’s War.” Markey sets forth a clear analysis of the current situation in Pakistan and where we could be heading if the political and domestic unrest continues. This time, it [...]
Read more →US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, publicly stated that “As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base.” At a time when Pakistan’s new leadership is facing problems of its own with the economy and terrorism, this revelation could shake the Pakistani nation. Quoting from the Chicago [...]
Read more →I was reminded of a comment made by Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilani that Palestinians risked a “shoah,” the Hebrew word for a big disaster and for the Nazi Holocaust. While his colleagues insisted to the international media that he had not meant “genocide” the events of the past few weeks would lead us [...]
Read more →While many of us in Pakistan have had our doubts about the dossier of the Mumbai attacks, while watching The Pulse with Jasmeen, another investigative report was referenced by India’s own Tehelka.com has done a critical expose on what happened before the Mumbai attacks. The information provided there makes me wonder how much more would [...]
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