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Pakistan’s Sticky Wicket
Not again! As if there were already not enough troubles in the country, what with the floods and savage lynching of two brothers in Sialkot, we get the cricket too. An investigation by The News of the World paper alleges that it paid £150,000 to a middle man, Mazhar Majeed, for arranging to ‘fix’ a game.

Pakistan on its way to recognize Israel
In a development that could trigger a serious political backlash against the government, Pakistan is said to have opened its camp office in Tel Aviv, while the two sides are engaged in a series of covert talks to find out possibilities to establish direct links.

Divinely Inspired Rains Lead To Man Made Disaster
It is heart breaking to watch. Millions of people wade through muddy waters, most of them desperately poor, clinging on to what little belongings they have. Those who are fortunate enough to be able to reach dry land either sit in stunned shock or scurry around looking for the basics of food and water.

What is wrong with us?
What is wrong with us? How and why are we in such a pathetic condition? These kinds of questions must come across the muslim youth all over the world. When the ‘’ best nation ever risen for mankind’’ is slaughtered in millions on its home soil (Falluja, Gaza, Bosnia), something is drastically wrong somewhere. Many reasons are given for our current state, the most common being that the problem lays within us as we are bad people and this in turn makes our rulers bad. Neither is true. We are not at all bad people nor the 50 odd muslim rulers represent us in any way. The fundamental problem is something else.

A Challenge for the Intelligentsia of Pakistan
It is undisputedly in the mindset. That a creature so large remains enslaved despite its immense power is due to psychology alone and nothing else. If the elephant so wished, with a gentle nudge it could break free from the weak rope binding its leg to the pole.

Lessons from the European Union for the Muslim World
The desire for Unity in the Muslim world is strong and growing. Many surveys and opinion polls have suggested an increasing number of Muslims from countries as far apart as Egypt to Pakistan want to establish laws based on Sharia and desire unification of Muslim countries. Indeed there is a growing trend to attribute this call of unity to Islamic scripture rather than ideas of Pan-Arabism or some sort of socialist union.

Americans believed involved in Pakistan air crash, hijacking
August 29, 2010 Islamabad, Pakistan (Veterans Today exclusive) Informed sources in the Government of Pakistan have told Veterans Today that they are developing “hard evidence” indicating the Air Blue Airbus 320 that crashed July 28th outside Islamabad was a terrorist hijacking tied to rogue American security forces operating inside that country.

Sialkot: Democratic murder of brothers
The brutality and the dehumanized acts witnessed are not uncommon to the keen follower of news in Pakistan, yet somehow this seems different. To begin with it was the month of Ramadhan, when the public is calmer than during any other time of the year.

Who really controls Shahbaz Air Base?
The floods have not only shown the ineptitude of the Pakistan government but also the confusion that prevails within government institutions. On Wednesday the Federal Health Secretary informed a Senate Panel that Jacobabad air base was under the US control so health relief operations could not be provided.

£300m earthquake aid 'misused by Zardari’
More than £300 million in foreign aid for victims of the 2005 Pakistan earthquake has been diverted by President Asif Zardari's government to other causes. They now fear that the alleged diversion of funds will deter donors from giving further aid after the country's devastating floods. According to senior officials, schools, hospitals, houses and roads planned with money given by foreign governments and international aid groups remain unbuilt almost five years after the earthquake which killed 80,000 and left four million people homeless.

America is enemy according to Pakistanis
Despite billions of dollars in economic and military aid received from Washington, the United States’ image in Pakistan was the lowest among the 22 nations included in the 2010 Pew Global Attitudes Survey of 2,000 Pakistanis taken between April 13-28. Fifty-nine per cent of the respondents described the United States as an enemy, with 17 per cent having a favourable view and only 11 per cent considering it a partner, the poll said. Only eight per cent trusted US President Barack Obama to do the right thing in world affairs, the lowest rating of the 22-nation survey, and only 20 per cent had a favourable view of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, down from 64 per cent two years ago.

Oil field discovered in Afghanistan
A preliminary survey found that Afghanistan may have 1.8 billion barrels of oil in the north of the country, an official said.

Saudia planning to attack Iran
The United States is preparing to sell 84 advanced F-15s to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Once upon a time, this might have meant upsetting a crucial ally—Israel. But this time, once the Obama administration told Israel that the F-15s destined for Riyadh were not equipped with certain long-range offensive capabilities, Jerusalem relented. The balance of power in the Middle East has changed and may yet change again before long. If Israel and Saudi Arabia aren’t exactly headed toward rapprochement, the old enmities are not what they used to be.

Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing
There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that's OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We'd still be investigating this extraordinary phenomenon. Now mark you, I'm not comparing Israel and Hamas. Israel is the country that justifiably slaughtered more than 1,300 Palestinians in Gaza 19 months ago – more than 300 of them children – while the vicious, blood-sucking and terrorist Hamas killed 13 Israelis (three of them soldiers who actually shot each other by mistake)

Bangladesh bans religious parties, Imposes Secularism
Islamist parties in Bangladesh face a ban from politics after the controversial 1979 fifth amendment was struck down by the Supreme Court in a landmark ruling that also paved the way for ensuring secularism as the cornerstone of the country's constitution.

Why Are French Women Killing Their Babies?
Finding the answer has become a matter of urgency following the discovery on Wednesday of eight infants allegedly smothered to death and buried by their mother in northern France. And with that case marking at least the fifth instance of multiple infanticide reported in France since 2003, it has become vital for the nation to confront the phenomenon that appears to be behind it all: a mental condition known as pregnancy denial.

Blackwater behind Data Darbar attack?
private US defense contractors want to operate in Punjab to trace militant networks and then make recommendations for penetrating them. Despite intense opposition from the military establishment, a few days before the shrine attack over 50 foreign nationals, including officials of a private American defense contracting firm, arrived in Pakistan - even though they did not have security clearance from Pakistani intelligence agencies. According to the contacts, these nationals had earlier been denied visas by the Pakistani embassies they first approached, including in the US, Britain and India. However, they were apparently subsequently given visas by the embassy in Abu Dhabi and the consulate in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. This was done without the prerequisite clearance from the Pakistani Ministry of Interior, the Defense Ministry and the security agencies.

Blackwater infiltrates Islamabad
Almost each and every street of the Federal Capital is infiltrated with notorious Blackwater, TheNation's investigations reveal. After weeks-long efforts, this newspaper has finally managed to get trails of the exact locations of as many as fifteen houses in the private residential areas of the city that are hired by the notorious spy agency among other 70 residences hired in the sectors of F series, E-7, G-6 and G-8. Of the aforementioned 15 lodgings, the postal records of that are available with TheNation, three each are located in sectors F-7/3, and F-8/3, two each in F-6/2 and E-7, one each in F-6/3, F-7/1, F-7/4, F-11/4 and G-6/4. Similarly, of over 70 (the number may vary) suspected operative venues of Blackwater, 55 are reportedly located in the F Sector and the remaining 15 in other sectors.

The Profile of Blackwater
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Blackwater guards charged with murder
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Blackwater allegations prompt US review
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Why at this crucial time in history of Pakistan, credibility of Pakistani government is in question?
According to UN chief, recent floods in Pakistan are a ‘slow-motion tsunami’. More than 20 million people are effected by this crisis. The death toll rose to 1600, while the number of homeless has reached to 4.5 million. 3 million children are at risk of water-borne diseases.

A Radical Approach to Pakistan’s Economic Crisis
‘Roti, Kapra aur Mukan’ (food, clothing and shelter)! This has been the selfless slogan of the PPP rulers since the party was founded in the 1970s. Yet with the delivery of the new budget Pakistan’s rulers have come bearing gifts of a totally different but not of an unexpected kind; new tax rises, public spending cuts and electricity price increases to name but a few. The consumption based VAT tax has been shelved but only until October 2010. The poor like the rest of many Pakistanis will now actually have to make do with less just as they always have done with every new budget.

Pakistan is in peril of succumbing to an Iranian-style Islamic revolution
Pakistan is in peril of succumbing to an Iranian-style Islamic revolution, an official US study has warned, saying that mushrooming fundamentalism in the nation is finding support from the army and intelligence. Pakistan slipping into an Iranian-style Islamic revolution is described as one of the biggest threat to the world, the Quadrennial Defence Review Independent Panel has told the US Congress in its final report submitted last week.

Politicians enjoy London while the country burns
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Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has certainly left its mark
When you invade someone else's country, there has to be a first soldier – just as there has to be a last.

The flaw of the Euro
The first phase of the global financial crisis was the bailout of the global banking system by governments worldwide. A host of measures including issuing national bonds, quantitative easing (printing money) and nationalising failing banks were deployed by governments across the globe.

Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
Iraqi doctors in Fallujah have complained since 2005 of being overwhelmed by the number of babies with serious birth defects, ranging from a girl born with two heads to paralysis of the lower limbs. They said they were also seeing far more cancers than they did before the battle for Fallujah between US troops and insurgents. Their claims have been supported by a survey showing a four-fold increase in all cancers and a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer in under-14s. Infant mortality in the city is more than four times higher than in neighbouring Jordan and eight times higher than in Kuwait.

Syria bans face veil at universities
Syria has forbidden the country's students and teachers from wearing the niqab — the full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman's eyes — taking aim at a garment many see as political. The ban shows a rare point of agreement between Syria's secular, authoritarian government and the democracies of Europe: Both view the niqab as a potentially destabilizing threat.

Arrival of Imam Mahdi and Rise of Islam
The coming of the Mahdi is one of the major signs of Judgement Day. Unlike the minor signs his appearance will signal that the Final Hour is near and that believers must ensure that they are ready to endure its trials and tribulations (fitan).

It is now Time that Pak armed forces move to wipe out American military bases in Pakistan
There are reports that America has rented hundreds of houses in the capital and bought eighteen acres of Islamabad for a mere one billion Rupees for building a huge embassy, with a staff well in excess of the 350 staff that is allowed for any embassy, including hundreds of armed US soldiers. There are also reports of the launching in Peshawar of the American private military organization Blackwater, which was hired by the US State Department in Iraq and raped and murdered many Muslims alongside the US army. And there are reports that America is supervising construction of facilities in Jacobabad to launch drone attacks from within Pakistan, complete with US military personnel to determine the targets.

The Battle of Ain Jaloot
Towards the end of 656 Hijri the Tatars launched one of their largest assaults on the land of the Islamic Khilafah, resulting in the seizure of the Khilafah capital, Baghdad, the killing of the Khalifah Mu'atasim Billah, and the occupation of three quarters of Islamic land. Heading towards Egypt and Morocco, the last stronghold of the Muslims, the Tartars sent a threatening letter to the Ameer of Egypt, Mahmoud Saifudeen Qutuz, which included the following statement,

The Invisible Hand of Devil
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The Extremists of Pakistan
They have no tolerance. They speak, abusively if necessary, and desire little debate in return. They order and demand to be obeyed. They care not of another’s grievance or state of affairs, nor make any effort towards an understanding of such. They choose to remain ignorant of the world around and its realities that impact them. They wish their every whim to be met and every diktat to be followed by all. They are prepared to use violence - brutal, unrelenting and destructive violence – until they get their way. Bearded, uneducated, warrior tribes from the North West reaches of Pakistan? No. The real extremists of Pakistan are the pseudo-intellectual, liberal elite dining away and making merry in the posh settings of Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad.

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Stranded in Afghanistan
National security adviser Shiv Shankar Menon went to Afghanistan a week after the terror attack on a small hotel housing mainly Indians, ostensibly to beef up security arrangements. While this was clearly one of the main tasks of his visit, it will not be speculation to add that a prime concern here is to re-gain India’s faltering grip in Kabul. More so after its diplomacy received a severe setback at the London Conference on Afghanistan where India was unable to garner support for its position in the region.

Indian army leadership remains at odds with political leadership at Delhi
NEW DELHI—While the Indian government at New Delhi claims to be heading the biggest democracy of the world, it remains a fact that the it has actually been held hostage to the desires and policies of its military leadership that has always been against India’s forging peace with its neighbours, specially Pakistan and this military establishment of India has always been at odds with political and diplomatic establishment at New Delhi, reveal the investigations of The Daily Mail.

China may build Middle East naval base
In a sign of the growing confidence of the Chinese military, Admiral Yin Zhuo said that the country may set up a base in the Gulf of Aden in order to support missions against Somali pirates.

Indian military ready to fight China and Pakistan simultaneously: report
The Indian military is ready to fight Pakistan and China simultaneously, a report in the India Daily said on Wednesday. “India’s 1.13-million strong military is now planning to handle two major war fronts at the same time,” it said.

Killing of Afghan Civilians By All Means
The information leaflets were dropped in boxes from an RAF Hercules aircraft in Helmand province on 23 June. The box failed to break apart in mid-air and landed on top of the girl who died later in hospital.

The Politics of Iran's Nuclear programme
Iran not for the first time is on the receiving end of a barrage of criticism for not being transparent in its nuclear programme. Ever since Barack Obama become US president, Iran has been told to declare all its nuclear sites and halt enrichment activity. Obama under Israeli pressure has reiterated that it will impose crippling sanctions on the Gas rich state by the beginning of October 2008 if it did not comply.

The Same Old Mistake
Almost point for point, this plan repeats the terrible mistake that the British colonial army made in the Pashtun tribal areas in what would become Pakistan, in the late 19th century.

US Drone Attacks Timeline
US Drone Attacks Timeline

India Boosts Defense Spending To About $29 Billion
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Shock report on use of drones in Gaza offensive
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China welcomes Gaza truce proposal
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India together with world community will end terrorism: Manmohan Singh
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India launches new propaganda blitz
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Manmohan points the finger at Pakistan
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Terror: BJP charges Centre with inaction
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Child killed by Israeli tank fire in Gaza: medics
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India: Infant sold by doctor recovered
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Bush closes its eye on Gaza and blames Hamas
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India Steps Up Diplomatic Pressure as Pakistan Redeploys Troops
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The American Vulture has Landed
The British began their domination of the Indian subcontinent via the East India Company. This commercial entity, originally there from the 1600s to trade with the region, slowly began leading to the need to have a private militia there to protect its interests. By the late 1700s, the British had a regular army there to look after their assets and by the mid 1800s these foreign exploitative colonialists had completely replaced the previously resident ruling system and had taken over the running of the entire subcontinent for themselves. In doing so the British had demonstrated how the concept of ‘divide and rule’ can be applied successfully in a country and used to split the population along religious, political and ethnic lines.

Is Pakistan the luckiest nation in the world?
I often think that Pakistan is among the luckiest nation in the world! Surprised? Or thinking that the author must have gone nuts? Lost his senses perhaps I often think that Pakistan is among the luckiest nation in the world! Surprised? Or thinking that the author must have gone nuts? Lost his senses perhaps

We Fear & We Forget
It’s been almost a decade since the war started in neighbouring Afghanistan and the subsequent fighting – both within our borders and across them- has brought Pakistan to its knees, yet we remain quite. The war has seen over 30,000 of our fellow Pakistani brothers killed, yet we remain quite. 2,300 of our soldiers have lost their lives for a cause with which most Pakistanis fail to associate, yet we remain quite.

Democracy has drowned with the floods
The current monsoon rains have brought devastation on a massive scale to Pakistan. In this time of crisis the President, Asif Ali Zardari, is nowhere to be found in the country. He is in Europe, bestriding the great capitals of Paris and London supposedly dealing with Pakistan’s foreign affairs. To say that this visit given the natural disaster striking Pakistan right now and with the comments made by the British Prime Minister David Cameron in India recently is contentious is an understatement.

Secularism – A Universal Value System?
Terrorism, sectarianism, violence against women and abuse of religious minorities amongst other things are blamed upon the influence of Islam upon the state in Muslim countries such as Pakistan. As a result there are some in society who see the only way of dealing with these problems is to confine Islam to the private lives of individuals and to leave the State free to govern, away from the influence of religion. Essentially, this is a call to secularism. The question needs to be asked: is secularism suitable for the people of Pakistan?

Industrial Revolution was powered by child slaves
Research suggests that in the early 19th century there were 1 million child workers in Britain, 15 per cent of the labour force. Child labour was the crucial ingredient which allowed Britain's Industrial Revolution to succeed, new research by a leading economic historian has concluded.

Al Hind and Islam
Contact between the Muslims from Baghdad - the Abbasid Khilafah [800-1300 CE] - took place before the expedition of Muhammed bin Qasim, which has come to be seen as a seminary period in the regions history books. The Arabs used to visit the coast of Southern India, which then provided the link between the ports of South and South East Asia. After the Arab traders became Muslim, they brought Islam to South Asia. A number of local Indians living in the coastal areas embraced Islam through contact with the Muslim traders.

CIA's 20:20 Vision for the future Caliphate is Short Sighted
In December 2004, The National Intelligence Council of the CIA predicted that in the year 2020 a new Caliphate would emerge on the world stage. The findings were published in a 123-page report titled

U.S. Forces Step Up Pakistan Presence
The expansion of U.S. cooperation is significant given Pakistan's deep aversion to allowing foreign military forces on its territory. The Special Operations teams join the aid missions only when commanders determine there is relatively little security risk, a senior U.S. military official said, in an effort to avoid direct engagement that would call attention to U.S. participation.The U.S. troops are allowed to defend themselves and return fire if attacked. But the official emphasized the joint missions aren't supposed to be combat operations, and the Americans often participate in civilian garb.

Cut the NATO supply line
The oppressor rulers committed Pakistan’s Muslim armed forces to rescue America’s cowardly troops, who fall prey to mental illness through fear of the poorly armed groups of Muslims that resist their occupation. Some 2,273 Pakistani soldiers including 78 officers, two Major Generals and five brigadiers besides others, have lost their lives whilst 6,512 sustained injuries, even though the Western crusaders have only sacrificed 1,582 of their own troops. Moreover, as a further service to the enemies of Muslims, the oppressor rulers have divided and stretched Pakistan’s armed forces, the largest armed forces that the Ummah possesses, on three separate fronts. In response to American demands, the oppressor rulers engaged the armed forces in the tribal areas as a primary front.

American army killed many civilians in Korean War
An estimated 855 refugees were killed, including 200 crammed inside a cave and suffocated by fires set off by air attacks; 100 huddled on a beach and shelled by an American ship; and 35 attacked by American aircraft in Kyongju, a town behind the lines in the south.The commission — which had no power to force testimony, indict or offer reparations — said the attacks violated international conventions on war and asked the Korean government to seek compensation from Washington. It also asked the government to enact laws to compensate victims of the killings by South Korean authorities.The government has yet to respond to those requests, and victims fear that it is unlikely to, with a conservative pro-American president in power in Seoul.

The real cost of Pakistan’s war on terror
We had one of the biggest internal displacements in the history of world with nearly 2.3 million migrating to other areas, being taken care of and then finally being repatriated and rehabilitated to their homes. The country received around $0.8 billion for an operation that cost Pakistan approximately $10 billion. We are talking about the Malakand operation that was staged during the summer of 2009.

Islamic Ruling on Military Alliances
From this it becomes clear that military alliances with disbelieving states are haram in the Shar'a and they are not contracted. It is not allowed for the Muslim to shed his blood in the way of defending the belligerent disbeliever. Rather the Muslim only fights people so that they enter into Islam from disbelief (kufr). As for fighting disbelievers to enter from kufr into kufr and to shed his blood for that, this is also haram.

A Failed President
Sixty-two percent of all Americans believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction. For the first time, more Americans disapprove of Obama than approve. Fifty-seven percent would prefer someone else, rather than the member of Congress they now have.

28th Rajab 1342 Hijri: The day Muslims lost Khilafah
Whether it is in Gaza or on the Afghanistan Pakistan border, the Muslim Ummah continues to be mercilessly massacred by the vicious Western powers. This situation begun the day the Muslim Ummah lost her shield, her leader, the Khalifah. It was 89 years ago this month on the 28th Rajab 1342 (3rd March 1924) that the last Islamic Khilafah was destroyed. A meeting of the National Assembly in Ankara passed a resolution that turned the Uthmaniyah Khilafah in Turkey into a secular state. The institution that represented the leadership and unity of the Muslim Ummah from the time of the Prophet (salallahu alaihi wasallam) for 1300 years was finally abolished.

Masses in Pakistan starve as government funds American crusade
Moreover a cut of Rs. 102 billion is proposed by reducing subsidies to finance the bombardment of the Muslims in the Tribal Areas. Even the high level American official has confessed that the hard earned money of the people of Pakistan is being used to finance the American war. The Former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury Paul Craig Roberts confessed in his recent column saying:

A snapshot of Khilafah
For example, Mr. Gomar, one of Napoleon's leaders during France's campaign (1798-1801) to occupy Egypt, described the healthcare services and 600 year-old health facilities that he saw,

The Ummah's resources worth 1 trillion being looted in Afghanistan
The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe. An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys.

Saudi Arabia agrees to give airspace to Israel to bomb Iran
n the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran. To ensure the Israeli bombers pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defence systems not activated. Once the Israelis are through, the kingdom’s air defences will return to full alert.

Can Israel survive without the support of the Muslim Rulers?
Published figures show that the Muslim armies combined outnumber the Israeli forces by a ratio of 68 Muslim soldiers to one Israeli soldier. The Muslim countries spend almost 17 times more on their military budgets than Israel. So it is clear that a united Muslim armed force is the dominant military power in the region. Even with their advanced military technology, the Israelis cannot overcome such a large military force.

Islam's view towards Freedom of Speech
Islam and Freedom of speech has become a contentious issue in recent times. The limits of what is, and what is not, acceptable speech is becoming a new battleground between Islam and the west. The issue came to a head in September 2005 a few days before Ramadan when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten printed insulting and blasphemous cartoons of our noble Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.

Is US. Going to Occupy Pakistan?
U.S. officials have pointed blame at Pakistan for the recent Times Square bomb scare. Examining these accusations in the context of drone attacks, use of Blackwater mercenaries, and increasing U.S. encroachment upon Pakistani sovereignty, we see ominous parallels to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. May Allah سبحانه وتعالى prevent the U.S. from invading Pakistan and may He make us aware of such plots.

Afghan war is war on Islam and against Khilafah: UK PM advisor
The former head of the British armed forces who recently retired and appointed as a defence advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday confirmed that the war in Afghanistan is a war on Islam. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 programme about Britain’s continued occupation of Afghanistan, Gen (r) Sir Richard Dannatt said: “There is an Islamist agenda which if we don’t oppose and face it off in southern Afghanistan, or Afghanistan, or in South Asia, then frankly that influence will grow. We could see it moving from South Asia to the Middle East to North Africa and to the high water mark of the Islamic caliphate in the 14th, 15th Century.”

Europe is falling apart
France threatens to leave the euro. German savers hoard gold. The Bundesbank works on a plan B to restore the Deutsche Mark. It's fair to say even a $1 trillion bailout hasn't been enough to stop the rumour mill dogging the European single currency this week.

U.S sends more military to Pakistan
The scheduled arrival of 50 additional U.S. military personnel to Pakistan in June, accompanying four new F-16 fighter jets, will increase the official number of American boots on the ground there by 25 percent. It is enough to make the Pakistani government shudder with trepidation. Exaggerated tales of U.S. soldiers and spies flooding the country are regular front-page fare in Pakistan, and cause for strident political criticism of Western intervention that sometimes erupts into violence. Pakistan's military and intelligence services remain highly suspicious about the motives and methods of their U.S. counterparts, a wariness mirrored in American attitudes toward Pakistan.

Bring forth the shield
Such is the dismal state of the Muslim Ummah today, more than eighty years after its guardian figure, the Khaleefah, was dismissed and the institution which he presided over, the Islamic state or Khilafat, dissolved in 1924. Thus was the Muslim world torn apart and fragmented. From Palestine to Kashmir and from Somalia to Chechnya, the Ummah was left directionless and at the mercy of outside powers resulting in decades of persecution and pillaging. Prophet Muhammad (saw) said whilst doing tawwaf around the Ka’aba “How sweet are you and how sweet is your scent. How great are you and how great is your sanctity. By the one in Whose Hand is Muhammad’s soul, the sanctity of a believer is greater with Allah than your sanctity.” [Ibn Maja]. With the countless and continuous bloodshed across the Muslim lands – Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen etc - indeed from Allah’s (swt) perspective the Ka’aba’s sanctity is being violated day after day, second after second, again and again, without abate.

Quebec's Niqab Ban: What will be next?
The incidents that began with the expulsion of a Muslim sister from a French language course have now escalated to the Quebec government barring Muslims wearing the niqab from obtaining provincial services. The ban is politically opportunistic, pressures Muslims to abandon some of the Ahkam of Islam, and paints the Muslims as foreigners. In terms of voicing our opposition to this ban, we must do so intellectually and on the basis of Islam even when calling on the wider Canadian society to stop this ban. Last month, the Quebec government tabled Bill-94. According to the Canadian Press, the bill says that

The Reluctant Fundamentalists
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Crying over spilled milk
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Elite US troops ready to hijack Pakistani Nuclear
he US army is training a crack unit to seal off and snatch back Pakistani nuclear weapons in the event that militants, possibly from inside the country’s security apparatus, get their hands on a nuclear device or materials that could make one. The specialised unit would be charged with recovering the nuclear materials and securing them. The move follows growing anti-Americanism in Pakistan’s military, a series of attacks on sensitive installations over the past two years, several of which housed nuclear facilities, and rising tension that has seen a series of official complaints by US authorities to Islamabad in the past fortnight.

Tafsir of Ayat ul Kursi
Allah سبحانه وتعالى is the sovereign King. The Universe is His ranch. He owns the Universe. He controls the forces/causes in this world, He can contravene the laws of nature, He decides what happens or not. This should make us understand that our term has been fixed by Allah and our rizq (sustenance) is fixed (we will get it). We submit to Him on this understanding that when we are enjoined to do a task like carry this call of re-establishing Islam as a way of life through the khilafa, we fear nothing and no-one. Nothing can harm us and nothing can benefit us except if Allah wills.

India and the four day war
The Indian military's readiness is remarkably poor. Ammunition holdings remain well below the necessary levels, much ordnance is defective, the artillery shortage is worse than ever, only a minority of the army is able to move freely around the country, and there is a substantial shortage of the officers necessary to operationalise a plan that relies on initiative. During 1997-2002, Indian government auditors found that the army could make only 10 per cent of its planned acquisitions. During 2002-7, only a third of the necessary tanks could be procured. Nor is the logistical infrastructure of Cold Start in place. Shortages, inefficiencies, and corruption afflict the full range of the armed forces, from the highest level (vide the saga of the delayed aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov) to the lowest. After Mumbai, the army was forced to tell politicians that 'it would take them several weeks before it could prudently commence operations'. Its inertia at that time precluded even a strike from the navy or air force, since there was no guarantee the army could deal with a Pakistani response.

Treatment of Jews in Khilafah
A dispatch has been received at the Department of State from the United States Minister to Turkey giving interesting details concerning the number, status, and persecution of the Israelites in the Ottoman Empire. The total number of Israelites in the Empire is given at 500,000. Of this total, Roumania contains 250,000, Asiatic Turkey 80,000, European Turkey 75,000. Servia 2,000, &c. The United States Minister says that justice to the Turk compels him to admit that the Israelites have been better treated by the Ottomans than by many of the Western powers and that the impression prevails that they are better treated in the Empire than the Christians. They are recognized as independent religious community with the privileges of their own ecclesiastical rule, their chief Rabbi, Chacham Bashi, possessing, in consequence of his functions, great influence.

The British government wants to change Islam
The government initially published a strategy in 2003 called CONTEST, which aimed to reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from international terrorism. Its principles were based around the 4 Ps: Pursue : to stop terrorist attacks Prevent : to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting violent extremism Protect: to strengthen our protection against terrorist attack Prepare: where an attack cannot be stopped, to mitigate its impact As the ‘Protect' and ‘Prepare' principles are fairly self-explanatory, what requires particular attention are the ‘Pursue' and ‘Prevent' agendas

The continued betrayal of Pakistan's rulers
All lethal supplies — weapons, armored trucks, eight-wheeled Stryker troop carriers — come in by air to avoid attacks, but everything else goes by sea and land. The standard route from Iraq to Afghanistan is south from Baghdad and down through Kuwait, by ship through the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to Karachi, Pakistan, then overland once again. The “fob in a box” went on an experimental and potentially less expensive journey through Turkey to link up with a new northern route through Central Asia, which was opened last year for supplies going to Afghanistan from Europe and the United States as an alternative to the risky trip through Pakistan. Both routes circle Iran, by far the most direct way to get from Baghdad to Kabul, but off limits because of the country’s hostile relationship with the United States. “These are the cards that we’re dealt,” said Gen. Duncan J. McNabb, who oversees all military logistics as the leader of the United States Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base, Ill.

India spills more Muslim blood
Hyderabad is being described as sliding back into the Stone Age as a fourth day of riots hits the city. Curfews have been implemented and extended. Reports are emerging of mobs running riot, homes being set alight, looting, with one person stabbed to death. Pedestrians and people in their cars were targeted by the mobs and many of them had their vehicles set alight. India since its creation has been rocked by communal riots, where minority communities have been massacred. The Gujarat massacre in 2002 led to nearly 1000 Muslims being butchered with the help of the local police. This is not the first time events have simmered beyond control in India's Southern city of Hyderabad. Hyderabad saw its worst communal riots in 1989, which were triggered after Marri Chenna Reddy took over as chief minister, frustrating the attempts of another powerful faction in the Congress which wanted to see its leader in power.

America has 716 bases worldwide
The Pentagon's most recent inventory of bases lists a total of 716 overseas sites. These include facilities owned and leased all across the Middle East as well as a significant presence in Europe and Asia, especially Japan and South Korea. Perhaps even more notable than the Pentagon's impressive public foreign property portfolio are the many sites left off the official inventory. While bases in the Persian Gulf countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates are all listed, one conspicuously absent site is al-Udeid air base, a billion-dollar facility in nearby Qatar, where the US Air Force secretly oversees its ongoing unmanned drone wars

Healthcare in Khilafah
Unlike the Capitalist system, the Islamic system views the provision of healthcare to its citizens from a human perspective and not an economic aspect. This means that the leader of the Islamic State looks to provide adequate and good quality healthcare to the people, not for the sake of having a healthy workforce that can contribute to the economy but for the sake of fulfilling his duty of looking after the needs of the people in obedience to Allah سبحانه وتعالى.

Khilafah: A wealth of possibilities
The 3rd March 2010 was the 86th anniversary of the destruction of the Khilafah. After tasting the bitter fruits of socialism in the 1950’s and then the mirage of independence throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s, the situation of the Ummah across the world remains the same if not worse. As a result, the problems the Ummah faces have ballooned into many other issues. The Ummah faces a number of challenges since the destruction of the Khilafah that would need to be overcome for change. Challenges such as poverty, development, healthcare as well as sustainable economic growth, distribution of wealth and industrial development have for long been the centre of debate and discussion between policy makers, intellectuals and government ministers. Unfortunately such a debate has skewed the discussion of change, and whilst many material obstacles need to be overcome by the Ummah, change from some perspectives remains a physiological barrier rather than material i.e. do the Ummah believe change is possible. The birth of any nation would require those who espoused change and those that participated in its emergence to ascertain the nation’s strengths and advantages. Those elements considered necessary but absent would need the development of policies so they can be overcome.

The terrifying world of Pakistan's disappeared
In the first of a series of reports from Pakistan, our correspondent meets the wife of one of 8,000 citizens who have gone 'missing' at the hands of the state If you want to know how brutally Pakistan treats its people, you should meet Amina Janjua. An intelligent painter and interior designer, she sits on the vast sofa of her living room in Rawalpindi – a room that somehow accentuates her loneliness – scarf wound tightly round her head, serving tea and biscuits like the middle-class woman she is. And although neither a soldier nor a policeman has ever laid a hand on her, she is a victim of her country's cruel oppression. Because, five years ago, her husband Masood became one of Pakistan's

Letter to the Oppressive rulers
We convey this open letter to you following the example of RasulAllah صلى الله عليه وسلم who advised several leaders of the Qur'aish, whilst fully aware of the fact that they will neither heed guidance nor follow the true deen. This action of RasulAllah صلى الله عليه وسلم was in accordance with the command of Allah سبحانه وتعالى

The achievements of the Islamic Khilafah
Massive amounts of the wealth of the old Ottoman Empire were now claimed by the victors. But one must remember that the Islamic empire had tried for centuries to conquer Christian Europe and the power brokers deciding the fate of those defeated people were naturally determined that these countries should never be able to organize and threaten Western interests again. With centuries of mercantilist experience, Britain and France created small, unstable states whose rulers needed their support to stay in power. The development and trade of these states were controlled and they were meant never again to be a threat to the West. These external powers then made contracts with their puppets to buy Arab resources cheaply, making the feudal elite enormously wealthy while leaving most citizens in poverty.

Most Dangerous Place on Earth: United States
United State’s crime clock continues to click, one murder every 22 minutes, one rape every 5 minutes, one robbery every 49 seconds, and one burglary every 10 seconds. And the cost of crime continues to mount: $78 billion for the criminal justice system, $64 billion for private protection, $202 billion in loss of life and work, $120 billion in crimes against business, $60 billion in stolen goods and fraud, $40 billion from drug abuse, and $110 billion from drunk driving. When you add up all the costs, crime costs Americans a stunning $675 billion each year. There is no universal definition of terrorism available at the moment but looking at the above figures one can see that US has lost war against crimes (terrorism) in its own country.

Nothing except Brothers
The definition of Brotherhood varies between dictionaries, ranging from blood relationships to associations based on common interests and activities such as unions and professional associations. Islam redefined brotherhood in a new and profound manner by changing the relationship from one based on personal interest or mutual activity to a permanent bond based on belief and acceptance of Islam.

The Constitution of Medina
The Medina Charter, written and promulgated by Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) for the multi-religious ten thousand-strong citizens of the city-state of Medina in 622 A.D is truly a remarkable political-constitutional document. Not only is the Madina Charter important in the sense that it is the first written constitution; it is also modern in the sense that it was promulgated for a plural society, giving equal rights to every citizen as well as giving them a say in governmental matters, as we shall see. Considering all these, it is amazing that current Muslims from various sphere of life(leaders, civil society and politicians seldomly or deliberately ignore this important seminal political document of Islam.

Pakistan should learn from Russia
Russia has taken full advantage of America’s preoccupation with the Islamic world to reverse all the American sponsored colour revolutions. The project to bring all of the former Soviet republics under Russian influence has been a meticulous task led by Vladimir Putin. Any effort to change Russian expansion must be monumental if it is to succeed

Only Khilafah will bring Scientific Advancement to Muslims
In Islam, the issue of science and technology has not been a controversial one. Belief in Islam is based on rational thinking - a Muslim comes to believe in Allah سبحانه وتعالى by examining the world and arriving at the firm conclusion that the world could not exist without the intervention of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Many ayat in the Quran challenges man to think and ponder about the world:

The United Colours of Pakistan?
It’s been sixty three years of differing views. Many people argue that the country was built on the basis of Islam and that is how it should be run; and chants such as ‘Pakistan ka matlab kiya?, La Illaha Illalah’ are a common hearing during protests, even now. Others argue that Quaid-e-Azam wanted it to be secular and hence made it quite clear during his inaugural speech as the Governor General of Pakistan

Islamabad aims to create a Caliphate
Islamabad aims to create a caliphate with the help of the Islamic regimes running from Central Asia to West Asia and Southeast Asia. India stands in the way. Beijing desires to unravel India into multiple parts based on the pre-British model as it cannot digest the challenge to its supremacy offered in Asia by a liberal union of multi-religious and multi-ethnic States.

THE TRUTH ABOUT US JUSTICE
Many of us are still in a state of shock over the guilty verdict returned on Dr Aafia Siddiqui. The response from the people of Pakistan was predictable and overwhelming and I salute their spontaneous actions. From Peshawar to Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and beyond they marched in their thousands demanding the return of Aafia.

U.S troops presence in Pakistan creates public anger and more trouble for the government
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Blackwater-Xe in Somalia?
US agencies are going to launch suicide bombings in public places in Mogadishu. They have tried it in Algeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan”. He added that the target will be the market of Bakara. The source apparently warned a meeting of tribal elders that Xe Services (formerly Blackwater) has entered Somalia and has already started recruiting operationals to carry out its attacks.

Only Khilafah will liberate Kashmir
Fifth February has been a day about the liberation of the long suffering Muslims of Kashmir and their annexation to the Islamic Lands. However, today Zardari is working hard to implement the American plan for Kashmir to permanently bury any chance of ending oppression at the hands of India. According to the road map agreed with the Indians by America's agent Musharraf in 2007 and endorsed by the Obama Administration after its policy review in 2009, the American plan heralds new dangers for the Muslims as it entails the creation of tiny Kashmiri states, with meagre resources and little resistance to Indian influence and mischief

Islam: Justice For All
Earlier this month, UAE's Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahayan was cleared of all charges involving the torture and abuse of a Muslim grain merchant despite there being video footage of the act. The case is only one example of how the judicial system in the world today is biased and corrupt. Under Islam, judges have a heavy responsibility before Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Only the re-establishment of the Khilafah Rashidah will bring humanity true and complete justice.

Who will free Aafia Siddiqui?
In March 2009 two female US Journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling were seized by North Korean border guards while reporting for California-based Current TV. They were subsequently tried and sentenced to 12 years in prison for

Islam First Pakistan Later
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US troops issued with gun sights carrying coded references to Bible passages
Troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan are firing weapons with coded inscriptions including 2COR4:6 and JN8:12, which relate to verses in the Bible. The secret markings do not sit comfortably US government rules forbidding its forces from spreading any religious faith during deployments to the two Islamic-majority countries. Burnley's Wade Elliott has sights on Arsenal after latest giant-killingThe branded equipment was produced by the Michigan-based manufacturer Trijicon, which has a contract to supply more than 800,000 sights to the US marines and other branches of the military.

Demise of The United States of America, An American Tragedy
The 20th century will be remembered as the century when America became a world power. World Wars I and II would decimate the then great powers of the world, e.g. England, Germany, Russia, France, Japan, etc., leaving the US as the last nation standing—the world’s sole superpower.

It’s all about AF-Pak
Once again the stage is being set to restart the so called composite dialog between two arch rivals in South Asia and the meeting of the Premiers of two countries at the sidelines of NAM in Sharm-el-Sheikh was the beginning of the dialog process. However events leading to Sharm-el-Sheikh need scrutinizing so as to avoid illusions and unnecessary hope re the future.

A Forgotten Lesson of the 10th of Muharram (Ashura)
Muharram is a blessed month, of which the 10th is a unique date. Muslims are recommended to fast on the 9th and 10th or the 10th and 11th. There are many events in history which have taken place on this date, but in our time, a very important lesson continues to be overlooked each year. This, we must not allow to continue.

The Collapse of Dubai's Economic Dream
Whilst many have been looking at the prospect of global economic recovery, Dubai sent investors into a tailspin in December 2009 when the government revealed that it planned to ask creditors of Dubai World, the state-owned conglomerate, for a six-month standstill on its debt repayments, stopping short of defaulting. Dubai has $80 billion worth of debt, with the vast majority held by Dubai World, which owns Nakheel, the property developer.

Zardari regime helping America in bombings
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Is it Secular triumph or Liberal subjugation?
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Pakistan's Emancipation: Remainder one formula
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Pakistan and Democracy – Time to be realistic?
Its that time in Pakistani politics again, where after roughly two years of coming to power the ‘elected’ and ‘democratic’ regime is once again under threat of being thrown out on one charge of misdemeanour or another. It would really be a lot simpler in one sense if we all just accepted that Pakistan is going to have elections after two years rather than four; it would make the pretence of transparent and accountable rule a bit easier to swallow. At least the people would feel they have some power whilst the new overlords are installed after receiving their political baptism in Washington. The only drawback with this sort of plan is that the ‘disgraced’ politicians who are regularly recycled in Pakistan would not have had enough time out in the ‘sin-bin’ for their transgressions to make them palatable enough for the people to accept them as rulers again.

10 sins of Democracy
This is a brief review which explains some of the destructive and dangerous effects resulting from plunging into the quagmire of democracy by which many people have been deceived due to putting on their hopes on it even though it is clearly against the methodology of Allah, just as what we are going to explain in this brief study, especially that there have been a lot of bitter experiences encountered by those people who have been deceived by this game and where its diversion and debauchery aspects were shown.

Democracy & Shura?
The slogan ''Islamic democracy'' has been coined and attributed to Umar ibnul Khattab (ra), the second Khaleefah, and even to Muhammad (saw). It is said that consultation, or ''Shura,'' is a fundamental aspect of Islamic governance, and that it is, in reality, democratic. However, those who describe democracy as being Shura, have dressed the proverbial ''wolf in sheep's clothing.'' Once some light has been cast onto the reality of Shura and democracy, the wolf will be unmasked. Firstly, let us look at the similarities.

Unraveling the chaos in Pakistan
In the past two weeks there have been increasingly bold attacks by militants in Pakistan – the attack on army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi, the bombings in Kohat and Peshawar, and the synchronised attacks on police buildings in Lahore are just a few.

What Pakistan Needs to Protect its Sovereignty and the Blood of its People?
Asif Ali Zardari, the current President of Pakistan has made clear what his priorities are in his Presidential career and more importantly, who they are – Western governments and their interests. He has made it clear that the West’s War on Terror that includes the bombing of his own country is also, “His War”. He is the President of a nation whose struggle for the land Kashmir has been denoted as its’ prime heartstring, yet he has labelled the Muslims who resist the occupation in Kashmir as ‘terrorists’ and felt that India had never been ‘a threat’ to Pakistan. Such statements would make anyone wonder at how such an individual could be the ruler of Pakistan and not a representative for Western powers!

Islam in 21st Century
Since the events of 9/11 and 7/7, Islam and Muslims have increasingly been on the receiving end of a barrage of criticism. Many of the Islamic thoughts and practices have come under unprecedented attack under the banner of Freedom. The caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) and the banning of the Hijab in France are just two examples of the attempts of western secular countries to actively malign Islam. This attack on Islam and Muslims is however not restricted to certain Islamic thoughts and practices. Rather the whole concept of Shari'ah, the Islamic legal System, is ferociously attacked. The media portrayal of life under Shari'ah where beating of women, beheadings and lashings are everyday occurrences, are now all too familiar images. Since the demise of Islam at a state level, the Shari'ah has ceased to be the basis of legislation in the Muslim world. What remains of the Shari'ah in the Muslim world is only a few scattered laws that are applied haphazardly. This has erroneously given the impression of the unsuitability of Shar'iah in the 21st century to deal with new issues and to solve modern, day-to-day problems.

Don't Let The Devil Dazzle You
Yankees credibility crisis might be a rattling revelation at home but not for the rest of the world. As America is a famous architect of duplicitous policies and White house is commonly viewed as a ruthless Wizard's House where countless conspiracies have been hatched against other nations in order to consolidate her position in the political arena of the World. The occupiers of the White House have violated almost every International law, abrogated Geneva Convention repeatedly and have not even spared her very own constitution.

The Intellectual Challenge of the Qur’an
Today how many propose that manmade laws and rules should be enacted and then the people shall bow to them with obedience? Is it not demeaning for man to submit to that which is lesser than him?

The U.S. Invades and Occupies Pakistan
We are watching it happen in the streets. The recurring nightmare has become a grim, new reality for the people of Pakistan. After watching the horrors of the U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and neighboring Afghanistan for 8 years, the

Reconstructing the Pakistani Political System
It has become a cliché to say that Pakistan’s rulers are failures. For years Pakistanis have been seeking a saviour, a person to lead the country from whatever crisis it seems to find itself in at that particular time. Unfortunately for Pakistan the number of crises seems to be many yet the number of leaders able to solve the country’s problems has been precisely zero.

Ideas before bullets
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Pakistan's Elite Pay Few Taxes, the beauty of Democracy
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Much of Pakistan's capital city looks like a rich Los Angeles suburb. Shiny sport utility vehicles purr down gated driveways. Elegant multistory homes are tended by servants. Laundry is never hung out to dry. But behind the opulence lurks a troubling fact. Very few of these households pay income tax. That is mostly because the politicians who make the rules are also the country's richest citizens, and are skilled at finding ways to exempt themselves.

U.S military shipments airlifted from Pakistan
It was further learnt that a consortium of private contractors was handling these highly sensitive contracts, led by a firm of a retired CIA officer and run by the son of Afghan Defence Minister Gen Abdul Rahim Wardak, and a Pakistani firm with links to Blackwater. “There is nothing unusual and unlawful as such operations are carried out under the agreement signed by the US and Pakistan governments,” US Embassy Spokesman.

Legislation required to prevent Nato supplies
The source privy to the matter informed TheNation that the Customs authorities were unable to examine the cargo containers having the labels of NATO on them. The source revealed that an independent clearing service namely US Kundi Service, of NATO cargo, was being authorised by the US authorities to clear the cargo without any examination. The local company, Al-Raziq International, is the main clearing company looking after the whole affaires of the NATO supplies.

U.S puts pressure on Pakistan
With United States General David Petraeus taking over command of the war in Afghanistan and refining strategy there, the US is also fine-tuning its approach across the border in Pakistan, where the government is being urged to crack down on extremist groups in an effort to isolate al-Qaeda. United States State Department counter-terrorism coordinator Daniel Benjamin, who holds the rank of ambassador at large, headed a delegation of counter-terrorism and intelligence officials for another round of strategic dialogue in the capital Islamabad on Thursday. The message he conveyed was that Pakistan needed to increase pressure on extremists groups flourishing on its soil with al-Qaeda's assistance to prevent terror attacks both within Pakistan and beyond.

Drones take off from a base inside Pakistani Balochistan known as ''Rhine''
Bumping up against the ISI is a way of life for the CIA in Pakistan, the agency's command centre for recruiting spies in the country's lawless tribal regions. Officers there also coordinate Predator drone airstrikes, the CIA's most successful and lethal counterterrorism program. The armed, unmanned planes take off from a base inside Pakistani Balochistan known as ''Rhine.'' ''Pakistan would be exceptionally uncomfortable and even hostile to American efforts to muck about in their home turf,'' said Graham Fuller, an expert on Islamic fundamentalism who spent 25 years with the CIA, including a stint as Kabul station chief.

Pakistan ranks 10th among ‘failed states’
Pakistan was ranked the 10th most failed state in the world, just three places below Afghanistan, in a US survey released on Monday. Somalia tops the 2010 Failed States Index followed by Zimbabwe, Sudan, and Chad. The index issued by the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace, a Washington-NGO, ranks India 87th in a list of 177 countries.

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U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring in Pakistan and Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — Top military officials have continued to rely on a secret network of private spies who have produced hundreds of reports from deep inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to American officials and businessmen, despite concerns among some in the military about the legality of the operation.

An Unlikely Catalyst For Change
BRANDED A ‘failed state’, Pakistan has become notorious in the global media. Political change is often a result of the notorious 111 Brigade (the Rawalpindi-based army contingent which leads any military coup) moving on the streets of Islamabad and capturing the derelict PTV (Pakistan Television) headquarters. News-worthiness is defined by the number of suicide blasts that take place in a single day within what has been termed as the “most dangerous country” in the world. Pity that such stereotypes have prevented a nuanced understanding of Pakistan, as well as the fact that it is a fast changing country with a strong yearning for the rule of law and constitutionalism.

Pakistan Army’s Extra-Judicial Killings
Human Rights Watch said the Army was targeting civilians who had voiced support for the Taliban when they controlled Swat or were suspected of providing them food or shelter. “People are taken away, and sometimes they turn up a few days or weeks later having been tortured. Sometimes they disappear. Sometimes their body is dumped with a bullet in the head,” Malinowski said. He also described cases of illegal detention.

Civilians killed by Pakistan Army
Up to 71 civilians were killed in a weekend strike by Pakistani jets near the Afghan border, survivors and a government official said Tuesday - a rare confirmation of civilian casualties that risks undercutting public support for the fight against militants. The government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said authorities had already handed out the equivalent of $125,000 in compensation to families of the victims in a remote village in the Khyber tribal area. Also Tuesday, a village elder claimed 13 civilians had been killed in US missile strike on Monday night elsewhere in the northwest, contesting accounts by Pakistani security officials that four militants were killed.

Pakistan weighs changes to revise Constitution
Pakistan’s Parliament opened debate on Tuesday on a set of amendments intended to refurbish the Constitution after decades of distortions inflicted by a series of military autocrats. The changes were widely heralded here as important step toward improving the long-term health of the country’s beleaguered democracy. But they also threatened to open a new chapter of instability for the government of President Asif Ali Zardari, as they strip away his powers and leave him more vulnerable to challenges from the opposition. The changes, which are expected to pass this month, represent a rare moment of consensus in Pakistan’s fractious politics. Representatives from 14 political parties, led by a member of Mr. Zardari’s party, spent 10 months preparing 102 amendments.

U.S designs for Pakistan
PRESIDENT Obama’s secret visit to Afghanistan in the stealth of Saturday night from Washington only reconfirms fears that the US will not only exit Afghanistan soon but is determined to make Pakistan do its mopping up operations. Especially his reference to the US and “its partners” getting the job done - as opposed to the US and NATO - reflects US intentions and should be a warning for the Pakistani nation. Furthermore, if one links this to the recently concluded and rather meaningless strategic dialogue between Pakistan and the US, these fears are further confirmed.

U.S refuses civilian nuclear aid to Pakistan
Pakistan will seek U.S. aid for its civilian nuclear power program next week when its top military and senior civilian leaders visit Washington to restart a

Investigation over US spy network in Pakistan
Washington (CNN) -- The Department of Defense has launched an investigation into whether a $24 million contract to gather information about developments in towns and villages in Afghanistan and Pakistan may have been inappropriately used instead to run an ad hoc spy ring, according to U.S. military officials.

The Breakup of Balochistan
According to an alert today by BRASSTACKS, an Islamabad-based security monitoring center, and I quote: “The US Marine Corps has reportedly been allowed [by the Pakistani government] to land around Makran coast in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The pretext is that the marines are conducting some anti-narcotics exercise in Afghanistan and the supposed landing in Pakistan’s Balochistan is part of that exercise. The timing is not only dangerous but could pose a serious threat to Pakistani national security because the rulers in Islamabad have allowed the US Marine landing at a time when the US has stationed a large number of troops in the Afghan province of Helmand bordering the Balochistan province of Pakistan.”

Former C.I.A and Special forces operatives inside Pakistan
Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. The official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from private security companies that employed former C.I.A. and Special Forces operatives. The contractors, in turn, gathered intelligence on the whereabouts of suspected militants and the location of insurgent camps, and the information was then sent to military units and intelligence officials for possible lethal action in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the officials said.

Defending the indefensible
Conventional wisdom dictates that whereas it might be in the interest of opposition parties to promote conflict and controversy to destabilise incumbent administrations, governments go out of their way to diffuse tensions and conflagration, even in times of great upheaval and turmoil, to present a veneer of calm and stability, if for no other reason then for their own survival. But, under the Zardari administration, where neither convention nor wisdom applies, the situation has been strangely reversed: the PML-N is preaching restraint to preserve the status quo while the government, and particularly Zardari himself, is itching to wage unnecessary foolish battles that are chipping away at the foundations of the system, inching the country towards chaos. If the currency of democracy and rule of law has lost all its value to the extent that the institutions meant to safeguard the system of representative and responsible rule can be undermined with such impunity, then is there no one to explain to Zardari that, regardless of the fate that might befall the nation, he himself is liable to become a victim of his own reckless manoeuvers?

One in three killed by US drones in Pakistan is a civilian, report claims
The report, by the Washington-based New America Foundation, will fuel growing criticism of the use of unmanned drones in the fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, who use Pakistan as a base for attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan.

One in Three killed by Drones is a Civilian
One in three

One More Military Intervention?
On Feb. 10, 2010, Gen. Kayani met a group of Pakistani commentators and security analysts. The briefing was the third since the military began asserting Pakistan's legitimate security and strategic interests in Afghanistan and the region. On January 28 and 29, Gen. Kayani told NATO commanders in Brussels that Pakistan’s legitimate security interests will have to be respected. Earlier, he told Adm. Mike Mullen, Gen. David Petraeus, and Gen. Stanley McChrystal that instead of worrying about appeasing India, Washington better start paying attention to Pakistan.

Inside job suspected in suicide attack on US soldiers in Pakistan
The attack that killed three US soldiers who were traveling in a convoy in northwestern Pakistan was carried out by a suicide bomber, and was not caused by a remotely detonated roadside bomb as first reported. The suicide attack suggests that the Taliban, who took credit for the attack, had inside information on the presence of US troops in the convoy.

The NOT SO ''Secret'' War Inside Pakistan
Yes, there is a secret war going on in Pakistan, and it is one George W Bush should have started nine years ago. After the US abandoned Afghanistan following Soviet withdrawal in 1989, Pakistan supported Islamist groups in a bid to secure a pro-Islamabad government in Kabul. When Bush went into Afghanistan in 2001 with no plan other than to kick out the Taliban, he also threw billions of dollars at Pakistan to help in the

U.S troops on the ground INSIDE Pakistan
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School bombing exposes Obama’s secret war inside Pakistan
THE discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in the northwestern Pakistan town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country. Barack Obama has banned the Bush-era term “war on terror” and dithered about sending extra troops to Afghanistan, but across the border in Pakistan, the US president has dramatically stepped up the covert war against Islamic extremists.

Inspector Bomb Disposal transferred to Sukkur as punishment for exposing the truth
KARACHI: Inspector Bomb Disposal Squad Karachi, Munir Ahmed Sheikh has been transferred to Sukkur for what appears to be the punishment for telling the truth. He was serving as Karachi Incharge for Bomb Disposal Squad which reports directly to IG Police.

Country-wide demonstrations against Dr Aafia judgment
After torturing for five years and depriving her of her children; America has pronounced Dr. Aafia Siddiqui guilty of the act she never committed. Expecting justice from the American administration, who has even left behind the pharaoh and Halaku Khan in its cruelty, is equivalent to deceiving oneself. Despite the contradictory statements of the witnesses, jury pronounced the chaste daughter of Pakistan, Dr. Aafia, guilty as charged. Thus Dr Aafia could be sentenced for 60 years for an attempted murder in which not a single person was even wounded rather it was Dr. Aafia who was shot in the stomach.

Aafia conviction riles religious quarters
THE US court verdict against Pakistani-American neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui convicting her of attempted murder and awarding her life sentence evoked strong condemnation from religious quarters in Pakistan on Thursday.

3,000 bulletproof jackets imported by US Embassy held at Karachi
ISLAMABAD: About 3,000 bulletproof jackets imported by US Embassy have been stopped at the Karachi Port due to fear of slipping these things into wrong hands, sources said on Sunday. Well-placed sources told the NNI that these jackets had been lying in the port for a month due to non-clearance from security agencies. The sources said these jackets were held at the port after growing suspected activities of the US nationals and import of bulletproof vehicles into the country.

Alert: Indian Seminar Now Targets Balochistan
NEW DELHI, India—While a leading media group of Pakistan has signed an agreement with an Indian media group to promote peace between Pakistan and India with the title Aman Ki Aasha [the hope for peace-Aman is Urdu/Arabic for peace and Aasha is Hindi for hope], the Indian intelligence agency Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) is staging a seminar at New Delhi’s India International Centre from January 10 to January 12, 2010, reveal the findings of The Daily Mail.

U.S. Envisions a Continuing Civilian Presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s ambitious civilian push in Pakistan and Afghanistan will keep thousands of Americans in those countries for years — rebuilding Afghan agriculture, rooting out corruption and using the local media to counter anti-American sentiment.

Elite US troops ready to take care of Pakistani nuclear assets
The US army is training a crack unit to seal off and snatch back Pakistani nuclear weapons in the event that militants, possibly from inside the country’s security apparatus, get their hands on a nuclear device or materials that could make one. The specialised unit would be charged with recovering the nuclear materials and securing them.

List of Bagram detainees has majority of Pakistanis
Defence of Human Rights Pakistan Chairperson Amna Masood Janjua has said that the success of a US NGO in getting the names of the Bagram Airbase detainees published has established that the Foreign Ministry is “completely inefficient and insincere” in sorting out the issue of missing persons.

Prisoner 650 - Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui (Urdu: عافيہ صديقی) (born March 2, 1972) is an MIT and Brandeis alumna, originally from Karachi, Pakistan. She is currently facing trial for terrorist related offenses in the USA.

Pakistan external debt to rise by 43pc in five years
ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s total external debt is likely to grow alarmingly by more than 43 per cent over the next five years, to about $73 billion in 2015-16 from about $50.76 billion early this year. According a report released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the debt will increase by about 13 per cent, or $6.4 billion, to $57.1 billion by the end of the current fiscal year and is estimated to increase by $7 billion, or 12.3 per cent, to $64 billion by the end of the next fiscal year.

PR: If it is not now time for Khilafah, then when?
The misery that Muslims of Pakistan face of bombings, assassinations and insecurity has now spread from NWFP to Punjab to Sindh province. On 28 December 2009, a Muharram procession in Karachi, Sindh's capital and Pakistan's financial capital, was attacked by an explosion, resulting in the death of over forty Muslims and injury to over a hundred more. Then, organized, well-trained gangs struck for many hours, uninterrupted by the government forces. They were skilled and able to break steel re-enforced locks on closed shops with single strikes. They caused fires with a special phosphorus-based fuel, which can only be prepared in advance and with great care, such that the fires spread widely and lasted for over two days. They caused over forty billion rupees worth of damaged and bought life to a standstill in Karachi, home to over twenty million people. And this was just one of a series of thoroughly prepared attacks that have shaken Pakistan for several months, causing a huge loss of life and destruction of property.

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CCTV Footage of Karachi Bomb Blast 28 Dec 2009 - Complete
CCTV Footage of Karachi Bomb Blast 28 dec 2009 - Who is behind the violence in Karachi? Taliban? MQM? ANP? Baluochis? PPP? PML-N

US forces mounted secret raids in Pakistan
American special forces have conducted multiple clandestine raids into Pakistan's tribal areas as part of a secret war in the border region where Washington is pressing to expand its drone assassination programme. A former Nato officer said the incursions, only one of which has been previously reported, occurred between 2003 and 2008, involved helicopter-borne elite soldiers stealing across the border at night, and were never declared to the Pakistani government

A Breaking News
If Americans had a News of similar proportions, which Muslims have at this point in time, it would have really sparked hundreds of hours of exclusive coverage on every news channels ... thousands of discussions of different lengths would also have been aired, and around a thousand interviews of experts, politicians, analysts etc would have become a part of memory of viewers … all in a very short period of time. In addition to that, hundreds of documentaries of various lengths would have been made on the subject or been in the process of being produced. Last but not the least; this news would also have pushed Hollywood to start production of five to six mega budget movies.

NRO list out, 34 politicians among 8,000 crooks
Gen (retd) Musharraf promulgated the NRO after striking a deal with PPP leader Benazir Bhutto in order to grant amnesty to all those against whom politically-motivated cases were registered between Jan 1, 1986, and Oct 12, 1999. Mohammad Afzal Sindhu, the Minister of State for Law and Justice, released the list at a news conference soon after a meeting with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Pakistan's Natural gas production to double by december
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Hungarian oil and gas firm MOL (MOLB.BU) on Wednesday said production from the Tal block natural gas field in northwest Pakistan would more than double to 250 million cubic feet per day by December.

Zardari and his democratic alliance lead Pakistan to more corrupt as compared to 2008.
According to the latest Transparency International (TI) corruption report, Pakistan has become more corrupt as compared to 2008. The TI announced its report today in which Pakistan had moved up quite a few positions in the list of the most corrupt countries and ranked at number 42 in the list.

Editors criticise newspaper article against WSJ reporter
Top executives and editors of 21 leading international media organisations have collectively voiced concern over publication of an article in a Pakistani national newspaper, accusing Mathew Rosenberg, a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, of working for foreign intelligence services and even the US military contractor Blackwater.

Zardari may be behind 2002 terror attack in Karachi
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is suspected of having received millions of dollars in kickbacks from the 1994 sale of three French submarines to the Pakistani Navy, a French daily reported.

PR: American influence over nuclear assets is being accepted in the name of safety
Revelation made by New Yorker magazine that the American and Pakistani Governments are negotiating enhanced safety measures over Pakistan’s nuclear assets has strengthened the apprehensions that the present democratic government has gone a number of miles ahead as compared to the dictatorship of Pervaiz Musharraf in order to expand the American hegemony over Pakistan.

Pakistan-China in $1.4 billion fighter jet deal
China has agreed to sell Pakistan at least 36 advanced fighter jets in a landmark deal worth as much as $1.4bn, Pakistani and western officials said on Tuesday. China will supply two squadrons of J-10 fighter planes in a preliminary agreement, which could lead to further sales in future, a Pakistani official said.

202 Blackwater personals, fluent in "Urdu" with no baggage checking enter Pakistan
The foreigners affiliated with the notorious private military contractor Blackwater, whose security company Blackwater was later renamed as Xe Services LLC, arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday through a PIA flight, sources told TheNation. “Of the 274 passengers, who boarded Pakistan’s national flag carrier-PIA, flight PK-786 from Heathrow Airport UK, 202 were foreigners but they were fluently speaking Urdu language,” disclosed the sources.

Thar have a capacity of generating 50,000mw of electricity for the next 800-1,200 years.
Thar have a capacity of generating 50,000 megawatt of electricity every year for the next 800-1,200 years.

PR: In order to keep the civil war going in Pakistan America, Blackwater and the treacherous rulers are conducting bomb blasts all over Pakistan
After the bomb blast in the Islamic University there remains no doubt that America, Blackwater and these treacherous rulers are actually behind these blast. The objective is to keep the fire of civil war burning in the form of Swat and Waziristan operations.

Rehman Malik escapes students' wrath
ISLAMABAD – Interior Minister Rehman Malik narrowly escaped the wrath of angry students of Islamic University who were in a mood to thrash him as they chanted slogans against him besides pelting stones on his bullet proof vehicle.

Kerry knows how to deal with beggars
US’ statement of clarification on the KLB “could not be clearer”. He cautioned that “we should not play to cheap galleries here”. He aslo said, “if you don’t want the money, say so. We’re not forcing you to take it”. Kerry

Baluchistan - Pakistan's biggest but poorest province
Oct 14 (Reuters) - Pakistan's Baluchistan province is rich in energy and mineral reserves but most are unexploited, mainly because of security worries, leaving the province's people behind the rest of the country in wealth.

Press Release: The traitor rulers have reduced Pakistan's Army into the world's cheapest private security firm for America
After Swat and Khyber, America is using Pak Army to break the hell loose on the people of S. Waziristan After a conclusive and clear-cut diktat from America, the government of Pakistan has finalized its preparations for a full-scale military offensive in Waziristan. Food and necessary supplies have already been cut-off for the residents in South Waziristan for the last two months. On his way back from America, Zardari, a president on American payroll, announced this operation in London in May 2009. Same was the case for Swat operation which was started by Zardari while he was in America after the displeasure and intimidation by Hillary Clinton.

U.S.-Pakistan relationship like uneasy marriage
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U.S. Push to Expand in Pakistan Meets 'NO" Resistance
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Steps by the United States to vastly expand its aid to Pakistan, as well as the footprint of its embassy and private security contractors here, are aggravating an already volatile anti-American mood as Washington pushes for greater action by the government against the Taliban.

U.S recruiting retired Pakistani military officers
Washington is invading Pakistan without the need to order the US military in Afghanistan to invade Pakistani territory. Some influential lobbies within the US government, military and intelligence have been advocating a direct invasion of Pakistan for quite some time. It was impossible to achieve because of Washington would not prefer a direct confrontation with a nuclear-armed Pakistan.

Press Release: EXPEL Blackwater & US marines from Pakistan

US threatens airstrikes in Quetta - Pakistan
The United States is threatening to launch airstrikes on Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership in the Pakistani city of Quetta as frustration mounts about the ease with which they find sanctuary across the border from Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s support for America's war is a failure by any standard
The shameful Zardari, took his begging bowl to the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly and implored the nations of the world to give his government more money in its fight against Islam.

Obama Considers Strategy Shift in Afghan War
The options under review are part of what administration officials described as a wholesale reconsideration of a strategy the president announced with fanfare just six months ago. Two new intelligence reports are being conducted to evaluate Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said.

Every Pakistani HATES America
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After Islamabad & Karachi, Its the Peshawar Consulate
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Capitalist economy couldn’t afford further tax relief: Tarin
Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said implementation of Value Added Tax (VAT) is important to increase the revenues and said customs check posts will be establish to curb the smuggling.

Pakistan 'developing' advanced nuclear technology
Pakistan is developing more advanced nuclear technology, according to a new report, while India has in recent days signalled the need for new tests, marking a growing arms race on the Subcontinent.

Attack on minister puts focus on Pakistan security
Authorities are holding six suspects in connection with an attack that wounded Pakistan's religious affairs minister and killed his driver, officials said Thursday. Members of his inner circle were among those being questioned.

Pakistan, India likely to collaborate in glacier studies
Pakistan and India are likely to collaborate in glacier studies of Himalayas that are the source of water to major rivers in Pakistan, India and China but are thinning due to the climate change. “I will visit Pakistan in the first week of September,” Jairam Ramesh, India’s Minister of State, Ministry of Environment and Forests told a South Asia Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change in New Delhi.

US cuts Pak aid to a trickle
The Obama administration has conveyed to Islamabad that it will provide only $174 million for the budgetary support during 2009-10 out of $1.5 billion annual assistance under the Kerry-Lugar bill. But Pakistan is objecting to such preposition because the government will have no direct say in the spending of remaining $1.326 billion, which will be done by the US with the help of its own institutional mechanism.

America Targets Pakistan And Silences The Critics
While US diplomats target their critics in Pakistan with a new ferocity, the US media and politicians target the Pakistan’s nuclear and military capability.

Sugar lobby too powerful to be held liable: Tarin
The sugar lobby in both the treasury and the opposition benches is so powerful that a probe against the swindlers, who created the artificial shortage of the commodity, seems impossible, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin told The News here on Wednesday.

PML-N gives 48-hour ultimatum to PPP
Dismissing the ultimatum, presidency’s spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the PML-N was welcome to do whatever it wished.

Army - the main target in current fiasco
No matter who has authored the script of the ongoing Brig Imtiaz tamasha, engulfing the political arena, the establishment that includes the military-led intelligence agencies and the Pakistan Army have emerged as the main villains, presumably as the authors of the fiasco wanted.

Saudis come to Musharraf’s rescue
The Saudi authorities have formally sent a message to the Pakistani leadership that they want stability in Pakistan, with King Abdullah urging all stakeholders to abide by an agreement that rules out any action against former president Pervez Musharraf, reported a private TV channel on Tuesday.

Vilification a cover-up for shady deals: Nawaz
Pakistan Muslim League-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif has charged the federal government with adopting a policy of confrontation and character assassination of his party leaders. “A 1990s-like political situation is being created in the country, which would benefit the undemocratic forces,” the PML-N Quaid warned.

PM to talk to Sharifs over latest controversy
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani will take up the tirade of criticism launched by Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) leaders especially Party Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal against President Asif Ali Zardari with Sharif brothers after his return from Libya.

MQM shifts blame for 1992 operation from military to Nawaz
The much trumpeted 1992 operation clean-up in Sindh had actually been launched against the backdrop of the infamous ‘Major Kaleem kidnapping case’, when a serving Army major was abducted and tortured, allegedly by a group of activists belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (which was then known as the Muhajir Qaumi Movement).

Eid's moon sightning now by Parliamentarians
The meeting agreed on a proposal of observing the holy month of Ramadan and celebrating Eid with Saudi Arab. The secular government has proved that the moon sightning is no longer to dependent on Sharai evidences but to be decided by Parliamentarians.

Behind the U.S.-Pakistan Missile Spat: The Indian Threat
The spat between Washington and Islamabad over allegations that Pakistan illegally modified U.S.-supplied missiles to improve its ability to target India reveals a deeper schism in the relationship: Pakistan's military establishment remains unmoved by Washington's best efforts to persuade it that the Taliban, rather than India, is the primary threat facing Pakistan — and that's bad news for the U.S. effort in neighboring Afghanistan.

Rising Prostitution in Pakistan: Fruits of Secularism
Although they are legally outlawed, the number of sex workers in the country has increased over the past few years. Growing unemployment and inflation and the resulting rise in poverty have led many down this road.

Why Musharraf’s trial is almost impossible in current setup
Contrary to the popular belief and the party’s own profession, the PPP is no longer an anti-establishment outfit. Like other mainstream political parties, the PPP politics aims at securing or preserving power. It may be Pakistan’s single largest political party. It may have a nationwide appeal. In a proper democratic dispensation, such characteristics are all that a political party needs to get power. However, this hardly applies to a cosmetic democracy like Pakistan. If the past is any guide, the quest for securing or preserving political power in Pakistan is doomed to end up in failure without a nod from the establishment — the power behind the throne. The PPP’s own experience bears out this unpleasant and hard fact. Thus when high treason proceedings are instituted against Mr Musharraf, it is almost certain that those who abetted him, which definitely would be a fairly long list, in his unconstitutional acts would also find themselves in the dock. The trial of one person may turn out to be that of an entire institution.

U.S. Says Pakistan Made Changes to Missiles Sold for Defense
The United States has accused Pakistan of illegally modifying American-made missiles to expand its capability to strike land targets, a potential threat to India, according to senior administration and Congressional officials.

Four US Marines and Afghan national arrested in Islamabad
Islamabad: Four American Marines and an Afghan national were arrested at a check point of sector G-9 Islamabad. They were carrying heavy arms and ammunition. The formal report was registered in the Margalla Police station but were later realesed after interference by the US embassy officials. According to a private television the Us marines were travelling in the embassy car whose number plate was also forged.

"Dadagiri" of US Marines in Islamabad
Islamabad Police is in search of a US Marine who allegedly thrashed a man near the Nasir Apartments, The Nation reports. The complainant, Shams Khan said his son, Ibrahim was repeatedly beaten by the Marine. Khan complained that his car was also damaged by the marine.

President Zardari hopes to earn rewards for what will be seen as ‘good behaviour’ in the eyes of west!
As long as western states continue to back despised rulers like Zardari, the Muslim world will continue to suffer. It is only an Islamic Khilafah state that will offer a system of government where rulers do not rule in the interests of Britain, the United States or their own bank accounts, but in the interests of their people – giving Islamic solutions to the many human problems the people in Pakistan and the wider region face.

Influential people, govt depts stealing electricity: KESC
At a meeting of the committee, CEO of the Karachi Electric Supply Company Naveed Ismail said that powerful individuals, groups and lobbies and even sensitive government departments were stealing electricity.

Pakistan Default Swaps Fall to Year Low on IMF Loans
The cost of protecting against Pakistan defaulting on its bonds fell to the lowest level in more than a year this week as the country’s economic outlook improved and as international financial aid increased.

Khan warns to unveil sensitive issues if maltreatment continues
Atomic scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan (Aka Pakistani hero) said if mischievous attitude continued with him in the name of security protocol, he will unveil sensitive issues.

US Government Supports Terror In Balochistan
The US Department of State refuses to designate the so-called Balochistan Liberation Army [BLA] as a terrorist organization. One of BLA’s terrorists, Harbyar Mari, enjoys a safe haven in London. Another terrorist and Indian agent Brahamdagh Bugti lives in a safe haven in US-controlled Kabul. BLA in Pakistan and Jundullah in Iran have emerged out of nowhere after the US occupation of Afghanistan. What exactly Pakistani politicians and military officials are waiting for before they confront our so-called allies? A full-blown foreign-backed secession?

Concerns over circular debt claim 40 points at Karachi stock market
Choppy trading activity was witnessed at the Karachi stock market on Tuesday as investor concern over the outstanding debt issue affected Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs), refineries and independent power producers (IPPs).

Pakistan to sell $1 bln of bonds to avoid being defaulter
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Expensive Ramazan
Come Ramazan, and the price of food goes through the roof. The holy month has become synonymous with the unholy greed of the bazaar. In many other countries, such occasions are used by traders to offer generous discounts to consumers to make the observance of rituals affordable. But in Pakistan, exploiters have no qualms about fleecing customers at such times.

Previously we were afraid of the Taliban. Now, we're afraid of the army" Mingora resident
Corpses allegedly began appearing several weeks ago. Officials said 18 were found in the region last week. Local residents say the Pakistani security forces have been carrying out extra-judicial killings as part of their offensive against the Taliban.

Rumors of a Pakistan mired in chaos refuted as army defeats Taliban
Pakistani Ambassador to Turkey Sardar Tariq Azizuddin said there are actors, stakeholders and players in the region who are keen to see a destabilized Pakistan embroiled in chaos and instability. “Is it a state or a group of states funding, backing these criminal elements to destabilize both Pakistan and Afghanistan and to deny security to this area?” he asked, underlining that security is the foundation of development and prosperity.

Bangladesh bans Maududi books
The Bangladeshi government has ordered mosques and libraries across the country to remove all books written by a Islamic scholar. The chief of the government-funded Islamic Foundation said that the books by Syed Abul Ala Maududi encouraged

Israeli Air Force landed at Saudi Base
The Israeli Air Force recently unloaded military equipment at a Saudi Arabia base, a semi-official Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday, while a large American force has massed in Azerbaijan, which is on the northwest border of Iran.Both reports follow by less than a week the Pentagon’s confirmation that an unusually large American fleet sailed through the Suez Canal Saturday. Several reports stated that an Israeli ship joined the armada. The Pentagon played down the news, saying the American maneuvers were routine. However, a report by Iran on Wednesday that it has enriched dozens of pounds of 17 per cent enriched uranium serves as a reminder that time is running out to stop Iran from being able to produce a nuclear weapon. Iran’s Fars News Agency said the Israeli military aircraft landed 10 days ago at the Saudi base near the city of Tabuk, located in northwest Saudi Arabia, one of the closest areas in the oil kingdom to Iran.

The ''Security'' at G-20 Summit
Given the severity of these security measures, why is there such discontent amongst the people of the G20 nations with their leaders? Themes of the Summit include,

Zakir Naik banned from UK
Britain let Geert Wilders into the UK, the Dutch member of parliament who wants the Quran banned and rants against Islam all day long but they won't let Dr Zakir Naik in......there is no such thing as 'Freedom of Speech'....it only exists when the West wants to attack Islam. An Indian Muslim preacher has been banned from entering the UK for his

Gaza flotilla raid: Joe Biden asks 'So what's the big deal here?'
US Vice President Joe Biden has offered the Obama administration's strongest defence of Israel's Gaza flotilla raid to date, in a interview on US television this evening, saying:

Press Release: Israeli terror attack on international aid flotilla ‎
It is with great sadness and sorrow that we are again witnessing the slaughter of innocents at the hands of the Israeli terrorist entity. People who were trying to help Gaza have themselves become victims. In reality what is even sadder though is the continued Muslim inaction. As usual we will see the Muslim rulers issue token statements of condemnation and take superficial steps whilst their armies sit in their barracks and they sit in their palaces obeying their masters in Washington and London.

National Guard could be sent on the streets of Chicago
Two state politicians have issued a request for military intervention in the city where Barack Obama lived for 20 years and worked as a community organiser. It comes as crime spirals in the city, with 113 murders so far this year including seven on one night alone last week,John Fritchley and LaShawn Ford, Democrats who represent the north and west sides of the city, said troops were needed to

AUDIO. Eyewitness: A resident of Gaza speaks
AUDIO. Eyewitness: A resident of Gaza speaks:

AUDIO: The Scare of Default & IMF (Urdu)
AUDIO: The Scare of Default & IMF (Urdu)

Khilafah Conference 1994 - Dr. Israr Ahmed's speech
After spending his life as a Da’i of Islam and a Da’i of Khilafah, Dr. Israr Ahmed, passed away in the early hours of 14th April 2010. انا للہ وانا الیہ راجعون O’ Allah! Please forgive his human errs and accept his efforts for raising his voice for the implementation of Islam and the establishment of the Khilafah. O’ Allah! On the day of judgement please grant him the privilege of intercession of Muhammad (saaw). O’ Allah grant patience and steadfastness to the relatives of Dr. Israr Ahmed and accept them as well in this great and honorable work of establishing the Khilafah. Ameen!

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross. Full version
Part 1 of of a monumental documentary on the crusades produced by the History Channel entitled

The American way of Liberation and Freedom!
This is How US is fighting

Live with Talat
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Meray Mutabiq
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SWAT operation Explained
SWAT operation Exlpained

In Pictures - Swat Operation
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In Pictures - Inflation
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In Pictures - Breaking the Habbit Tonight !
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In Pictures - Horror of Flood and our rulers.
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Enemies granted more Visas
In a bid to end a row with the US over diplomatic and official visas, President Asif Ali Zardari has asked Foreign Office to enhance the visa authority of the country’s ambassador to Washington. The move comes a day before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Islamabad for a second round of the Strategic Dialogue. The proposal from the Presidency asked Foreign Office to authorise Ambassador Hussain Haqqani to issue visas for diplomats, officials and military personnel for up to one year.

Looted goods from Nato trucks end up in Peshawar market
The goods looted from US and Nato supply convoys en route to military bases in Afghanistan, often land in a black market in Peshawar, a city that has earned fame for dealing in smuggled items from the West, at cheap prices. Sitara Market, on the outskirts of Peshawar, just at the doorstep to the Khyber tribal region, is known for its smuggled goods. The merchandise, meant for use by US and Nato forces stationed in Afghanistan, ultimately lands in Peshawar’s black market, where local vendors claim that these smuggled items come from Afghanistan, Balochistan and from the Tribal Areas

Over 48 per cent of Pakistani people are food insecure
Almost half of the people in the country face food insecurity which has increased because of the ‘war on terror’ and its fallout on economy and development. According to a report released here on Wednesday, food insecurity has affected 48.6 per cent of the people in varying degrees. The report — The state of food security in Pakistan — sponsored by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation says that almost half of the people are chronically food insecure.

All Kayani's Men
Yet, it has also always been true that without a strong military, Pakistan would probably have long since disintegrated. That is truer than ever today, as the country faces the powerful insurgency of the Pakistani Taliban and their allies. That threat makes the unity and discipline of the army of paramount importance to Pakistan and the world—all the more so because the deep dislike of U.S. strategy among the vast majority of Pakistanis has made even the limited alliance between the Pakistani military and the United States extremely unpopular in general society and among many soldiers. Those soldiers’ superiors fully understand the importance of this alliance to Pakistan and the disastrous consequences for the country if it were to collapse.

Three Points of View: The United States, Pakistan and India
U.S. strategy in Afghanistan has changed dramatically since 2001. The war began in the early morning hours — Pakistan time — after the Sept. 11 attacks. Then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called up then-Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to inform him that he would be assisting the United States against al Qaeda, and if necessary, the Taliban. The key word there is “inform.” The White House had already spoken with — and obtained buy-in from — the leaders of Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, Israel and, most notably, India. Musharraf was not given a choice in the matter. It was made clear that if he refused assistance, the Americans would consider Pakistan part of the problem rather than part of the solution — all with the blessings of the international community.

Flogging video is ''fake and false''
A five-member team investigating the flogging by Taliban militants of a teenage girl in Swat has said in its final report that the video footage of the incident shown on TV channels is ‘fake and false’. This was stated by Interior Secretary Kamal Shah at a press conference at the Commissioner’s House in Saidu Sharif on Friday. The NWFP IG Malak Naveed Khan, Malakand Commissioner Mohammad Javed Khan, Swat DCO Khushal Khan and Acting DIG of Malakand Danishwar Khan were also present

All Change in Pakistan
The move to change the name of restive North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) to Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa - meaning

Intelligence dumps Zaid Hamid
It is in this context that Zaid Hamid was adopted, apparently collectively by IB and ISI, and promoted as a mouthpiece. While what he said was shocking to many thinking people, many have observed that what he said was usually in consonance with official state doctrine as expressed in education policy.

Pakistan's new Afghanistan Outlook
Because Pakistan was not in control of its border, dealing with militarily strong Taliban commanders was not possible. These black holes of the past have increasingly disappeared ever since Pakistan’s forces have advanced to the country’s northwestern borders, hoisting the national flag that previously flew only in name

Where is Pakistan on Afghan chessboard?
Actually for all the talk about winning back leverage in Afghanistan, the chessboard there is changing so fast that Pakistan may not be such a critical player in the months ahead, says Sameer Lalwani, a doctoral student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in an article in The Dawn. He argues that economic shifts are taking place in northern and western Afghanistan which will break its isolation and reduce dependence on Pakistan.

State within a state?
The little that has appeared in the print media indicates that Gen Kayani indeed has the powers to promote senior officers without consulting the government. The development is far too important to be brushed aside as a minor procedural issue. While the decision is a part of the larger picture of AfPak politics, it is symbolic of the true nature of the Pakistani state’s inner power structure. It shows that the present army chief has, by not seeking prior sanction for giving the extension, yet again established his organisation’s autonomous status. He has, in fact, established a precedent which many would be tempted to follow even in the civil bureaucracy.

US has India over the barrel
Even as Pakistan steps up a concerted anti-India offensive on issues ranging from terrorism and Afghanistan to nuclear programme and river waters, the New Delhi establishment appears confused, divided and uncertain. Barely two days after Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir described the evidence provided by India on the 26/11 outrage as mere “literature and not evidence”, the ISI’s Taliban allies struck at Indian nationals living in the heart of Kabul. Mr Bashir was reflecting the triumphalism in Pakistan over what was perceived as their diplomatic success in getting the Americans to force India to return to the dialogue table. A spokesman of the ‘Haqqani Network’, operating from across the Durand Line in North Waziristan, claimed responsibility for the Kabul attack. The ‘Haqqani Network’ had masterminded the attacks on the Indian Embassy in Kabul in 2008 and 2009.

Campaign Against Pak Nukes
Indo-US-Israeli propaganda machinery has been demonizing Pakistan under a well orchestrated program. Think tanks, research institutes, journals, magazines and newspapers together with radio and electronic media are the tools in their hands to promote carefully framed themes to twist facts and spread disinformation

What Robert Gates Didn’t Say – And The US Media Hides – About Blackwater In Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—US Defense Secretary Robert Gates admitted during an interview with a Pakistani TV station that Blackwater now ‘Xe International’ and DynCorp are operating in Pakistan. Immediately after the statement, Pentagon tried to put a spin on his words. But US meddling inside Pakistan –by posting private US defense contractors under diplomatic cover of the US embassy – is a reality for most Pakistanis. Some of these Americans have been caught disguised as Taliban right in the heart of Islamabad. Some Pakistanis were manhandled by some of these American militiamen on the streets of at least two Pakistani cities in recent months.

Pakistan: A friend in need
Pakistan’s political orbit spins around terrorism with a thick fog of skepticism. Acknowledged that current spree of militarism is being unleashed by some well-organized well knitted and state of the art sabotage sponsoring czars. In the guess game those who matter, in terms of beneficiaries, fall our immediate rival India. In the second tier, Israel’s complicity may well be indicated. But, what remains most relevant in the whole scheme is US over-whelming and over-arched capability to combat or identify its real culprits, modus operandi of training and launching network.

US drone war delivers results, but at what price?
ISLAMABAD - The US drone war in Pakistan has made gains in annihilating Taliban and Al-Qaeda commanders, but the reliance on the unmanned, remotely controlled aircraft risks fanning Islamist violence. While tens of thousands of US troops are fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, their presence is unwelcome in ally Pakistan and drone strikes have become the main combat tactic against militants on the ground

Lucky Draw: Selection of Next Pakistan Army Chief
Pakistan army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani is due to retire on November 28, 2010 after completion of his tenure. Military is the dominant institution of the country and army chief is the most powerful person in country’s decision making process. In view of volatile internal situation of the country and Pakistan’s central role in regional and international security in the context of extremism has enhanced the role of army chief. In domestic, regional and international security environment, army chief is a central figure. International players will view selection of next army chief through this security prism both inside Pakistan and beyond.

Pied Pipers of Pakistan
To control a rat infestation in Hamelin, Germany, a man was contracted by the town’s people who proclaimed that he was capable of controlling the menace. This man mesmerized the rats by a magical tune he played with his pipe (or flute) and lured the hypnotized rats into a river where they drowned to death. This man came to be known as the pied piper of Hamelin.

A President and A Prime Minister for Sale (unedited)
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For Pakistani president, goodbye to goodwill
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari, who entered office 14 months ago on a wave of post-dictatorship goodwill and sympathy for his slain wife, Benazir Bhutto, now faces growing public anger and disillusionment over his remote presidency. Some critics are urging him to step down, and others predict he will be forced from office within months.

Defending the Arsenal
In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban attacked what should have been some of the country’s best-guarded targets. In the most brazen strike, ten gunmen penetrated the Army’s main headquarters, in Rawalpindi, instigating a twenty-two-hour standoff that left twenty-three dead and the military thoroughly embarrassed. The terrorists had been dressed in Army uniforms. There were also attacks on police installations in Peshawar and Lahore, and, once the offensive began, an Army general was shot dead by gunmen on motorcycles on the streets of Islamabad, the capital. The assassins clearly had advance knowledge of the general’s route, indicating that they had contacts and allies inside the security forces.

Should I be worried about my Rizq?
At any family gathering, a favourite topic (amongst the men at least) is how best to go about accumulating more wealth. When in attendance at such gatherings, we have often been advised, which stocks and shares to invest in or which riba (interest) based mortgages to enter into. Ironically, those advising us to commit flagrant transgressions against Allah (swt) in an attempt to become more wealthy, were Muslims!

Government hiding US Terrorists while the public burns in anger
In 2005, Iraqi Police arrested and locked up TWO British operatives in Basra who were dressed in local Arab gear, shooting at innocent civilians in a busy market with automatic rifles and driving a vehicle laden with explosives, intended to go off in the middle of the busy market. British tanks tore into the prison and rescued both these men. In Pakistan, it seems all the Americans need to do is make a call to the Interior Ministry and have their terrorists released. There have been several incidents during the last few months of foreigners carrying illegal arms in the federal capital. Some foreigners were found not only carrying illegal weapons, but also threatening, harassing and frightening the public in Islamabad. The law enforcement agencies have been particularly efficient in tightening security measures around the city as a response to citizen complaints.

Black water and other diseases
Now the Blackwater is here in Pakistan as media reports suggest. And its presence is associated with the proposed expansion of the US embassy in Islamabad which is billed to become the largest communication complex in the world. To provide security to the installation, the reports say, the services of 1,000 US marines and Blackwater operatives have been acquired. They have started arriving in Pakistan but the US embassy spokespersons deny presence of Blackwater in Pakistan and equally in denial is Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

The Taliban are going to take over Pakistan – NOT
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Capitalist Bubble Yet to Burst!
Discussion about recovery from financial crisis is on horizon after surge in few stock markets and world economies. Notion that economies are moving towards recovery from the Global Financial Crisis is being pushed so that people are made to believe that capitalism has triumphed once again and the day has been saved. Truth is that capitalists are active in misrepresenting the facts so that trust on Global Financial System can be restored. However, reality is not as good as being presented, multiple reports and analysis are pointing towards the grim reality of severe depression in days to come. A number of crisis bubbles are facing global economies, and they are so huge, so big that sub-prime mortgage bubble is no comparision to them. The immediate bubble facing US and world economies is the bubble of Commercial real estate industry. Other bubbles include

Will Drones Make General Atomics the next Blackwater?
A US drone firing missiles into a village in northern Pakistan killed at least 19 people over the weekend. The targets were militants, said the US military. The victims included six dead children, said a local tribal elder.

The Breakup of Pakistan - The Conspiracy, The Con
It said that by the year 2015 Pakistan would be a failed state, ripe with civil war, bloodshed, inter-provincial rivalries and a struggle for control of its nuclear weapons and its complete Talibanization. It had predicted, 'Pakistan will not recover easily from decades of political and economic mismanagement, divisive policies, lawlessness, corruption and ethnic friction'

Continuity of economic deception from Dictatorship to Democracy
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Drug trafficking & black economy
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Politicization of civil bureaucracy at all-time high
Politicization of civil bureaucracy at all-time high

Pakistan: A Superpower by 2050
Pakistan: A Superpower by 2050

14th August or 28th Rajab
14th August or 28th Rajab

How Pakistan lost it sovereignty over a period of 62 years.
Pakistan lost it:

America Seeks To Destroy Pakistan With A Thousand Cuts
The events of September 11, 2001, have transpired to be a tremendous watershed for Pakistan. Since then Pakistan has followed a trajectory of events that has been almost unprecedented in Pakistan’s history.

Pakistan the next US target
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Who grins while Pakistan burns?
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America's Undeclared War on Pakistan
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Geopolitics of the Mumbai Bombings
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The torture on Muslims
British soldiers forced a boy of 14 to carry out an act of oral sex on a fellow male prisoner in Iraq, according to shocking new allegations made about the behaviour of British troops. British soldiers caught me and started beating me and others using their vehicle's aerials. They were beating us very harshly. We were led inside the hangars while still being beaten all the way. The beating became stronger when we were inside the camp. I was kept in a hangar along with four other Iraqis.

The World Cup & South Africa
As part of the football footage news teams have delved into the reality of life for the majority of poor South Africans. As well as extreme poverty leaving 50% under the poverty line, where a quarter are unemployed, other major problems such as crime, drugs, corruption and HIV are a daily norm for the local people. For those who can afford to, gated residences with private security forces are musts for those who seek to protect their families, but for those who live in shanties or run down suburbs they are left vulnerable. Drugs such as ‘tik' or crystal methamphetamine have had a devastating effect where rape, murder, armed robbery and car-jacking have grown with the soaring addiction rate. Ellen Pakkies, mother of a tik-addict son who turned psychotic and attacked her with scissors, a breadknife and an axe - before she took a rope and strangled him, the problem of inescapable depravation faced by families like the Pakks, leads to a vicious cycle drawing others into this loop of hopelessness and drug addiction.

Obama secretly deploys US special forces to 75 countries across world
President Obama has secretly sanctioned a huge increase in the number of US special forces carrying out search-and-destroy missions against al-Qaeda around the world, with American troops now operating in 75 countries. The dramatic expansion in the use of special forces, which in their global span go far beyond the covert missions authorised by George W. Bush, reflects how aggressively the President is pursuing al-Qaeda behind his public rhetoric of global engagement and diplomacy. When Mr Obama took office US special forces were operating in fewer than 60 countries. In the past 18 months he has ordered a big expansion in Yemen and the Horn of Africa — known areas of strong al-Qaeda activity — and elsewhere in the Middle East, central Asia and Africa.

Synthetic Cell - Man playing God or plagiarising God?
The publication of a paper in the elite US journal Science on May 20th from a team of scientists at the J Craig Venter Institute in the US described experiments claiming to the creation of the world's first synthetic cell. The announcement has been received by the mainstream western media with amazement leading to headlines such as

The European Debt Crisis
Europe's debt crisis is a continuation of the global financial crisis and also the result of how Europe attempted to solve the global financial crisis that brought an end to a decade of prosperity and unrestricted debt. European attempts at defending itself against a deep recession, has now created a new crisis of unsustainable and un-serviceable sovereign debt.

Obama and the curse of moderation
Faisal Shahzad hoped to kill as many people as possible, but in instead he gave the American intelligence community a unique opportunity to understand the current strategies and tactics of the Taliban and its relationship (if any) with al-Qaeda. More importantly, he offered the administration of Barack Obama, the US president, and indeed all Americans, an opportunity to take a hard look at the motivations of the emerging crop of militants who are attempting to bring the war against the US back to US soil.

Europe fears Greek crisis will spread
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Up to 75% of births to be outside marriage in UK
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The financial meltdown wasn't a mistake – it was a con
The global financial crisis, it is now clear, was caused not just by the bankers' colossal mismanagement. No, it was due also to the new financial complexity offering up the opportunity for widespread, systemic fraud. Friday's announcement that the world's most famous investment bank, Goldman Sachs, is to face civil charges for fraud brought by the American regulator is but the latest of a series of investigations that have been launched, arrests made and charges made against financial institutions around the world

Is Mexico a failed state?
The United States consumes vast amounts of narcotics, which, while illegal there, make their way in abundance. Narcotics derive from low-cost agricultural products that become consumable with minimal processing. With its long, shared border with the United States, Mexico has become a major grower, processor and exporter of narcotics. Because the drugs are illegal and thus outside normal market processes, their price is determined by their illegality rather than by the cost of production. This means extraordinary profits can be made by moving narcotics from the Mexican side of the border to markets on the other side.

The death of the 'special relation' between UK & USA
One of them made headlines: the report of the House of Commons' foreign affairs committee which advocated a more cautious approach to the US and proclaimed the death of the special relationship. Scepticism is in order. The coroner has often been called on to deal with that supposed corpse, and a wise coroner would come to two conclusions: that it never existed, and that it will last for the indefinite future. As the Irishman said,

University Education crisis in UK
Three quarters of England's universities are facing real-term budget cuts this year - for the first time since Labour came to power. University funding body Hefce has told institutions how much they will get next year from a fund of £7.3bn - £449m less than the sector was expecting. Unions are warning of job losses and of thousands missing out on places

Millions can remain unemployed in USA for many years to come
Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits. Economists fear that the nascent recovery will leave more people behind than in past recessions, failing to create jobs in sufficient numbers to absorb the record-setting ranks of the long-term unemployed.

America: A charge sheet for the biggest TERRORIST state in the World
People should know that behind the farce of human rights, liberty, freedom and whatever United States of America claims to champion and preaches to the world there is Guantanamo, Bagram, Abu Garaib, water boarding, secret rendition, Over 900 military bases across the globe and etc. Here is a List of Imperialistic adventures by the United States in the last 100 years :

Learning from the Civilization of Giants: Beyond Google's Philosophy
Google's PageRank has revolutionized the world of search engines bringing new dimensions to the problem of finding web pages' importance, but over the years the research community has identified some problems in the famous PageRank algorithm: the problem of Spamming.

Capitalism’s disaster decade
At the start of the millennium it appeared that capitalism was unassailable: western states dominated international politics and global economics while their militaries established global reach deep into the southern hemisphere.

Celebrating New Year
Man has advanced so far and yet knows so little. Many a times we donot realize that the customs we deem normal in our daily lives may have origins that are contradictory to our religious believes. Celebrating the solar new year is one of them.

The Rise of the Far Right in Europe
The BBC Question Time programme on 22nd October 2009 was host to a controversial member of the panel; Nick Griffin, Leader of the British National Party (BNP). Mr Griffin was openly given a platform by the BBC to express and defend BNP views towards Muslims and ethnic minorities etc. This has provoked much debate about the limits of ‘free speech’ and a question mark on whether a plural society should be tolerant of far right and fascist views. Reactions from politicians towards the BBC’s decision to welcome Nick Griffin to Question time have yet again been exploited for party political broadcasts and winning hearts and minds.

What has led to the current crisis in Yemen?
The US-led war against terrorism entered a new phase in December 2009 when military action switched from Afghanistan to Yemen, the US launched Cruise missiles in concert with Yemen government forces, who used tanks, helicopters and artillery to storm mountain villages suspected of harbouring Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. Yemen appears to be facing multiple issues on various fronts, which the weak central government has failed to solve diplomatically and continues to use primarily military means to solve. Yemen faces civil war with it's largely Shi'ah population in the North. It faces secessionist calls in the South who are demanding a reversal of the 1990 unification of North and South Yemen. Yemen also apparently faces al-Qaeda attacks throughout the country. Yemen today is a nation that remains largely underdeveloped and is led by many different tribes, central government has been unable to change this reality.

Women and their 'Modern Rights'
There is a women-rights crisis in Pakistan; from abusive chauvinists and cultural adulterations of religion to slow, outdated, useless judicial process and legal system—the plight is endless. Fortunately, there are people who genuinely care. Unfortunately, there are also people who apparently do but factually don't—and these are the people/NGO's funded by foreign donor agencies having ratified U.N.'s CEDAW. Their operations in Pakistan will only serve to replace one kind of evil with another, and worse. Any person who believes prostitution and abortion is a woman's right, is not a woman's friend. We could disclose their identities, but wont. You can see for yourself who these people are. These are the people who talk about “safe sex” practices in “Red-Light zones” and consider semi-nude parading of their kind in the name of “fashion”, “arts”, and “culture” as “liberating”, “empowering”, and “modernizing”. Our stance is in return simple: shutdown the 500,000 and growing brothels in Pakistan, ban sale of pornography in DVD shops, censor sexual-objectification prevalent in advertising, and make Education easily accessible and viable option for all girls in Pakistan. Then, and they only, the beginning of renaissance can truly begin.

Psychoanalysis of an Extremist

La Demos Kratos
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Status Quo and the Recipe of Exploitation
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The Divide and Rule Doctrine
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150,000 troops to defeat 300 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan & Pakistan?
In 2002 and 2003, there was no Al Qaeda presence in Iraq. George W. Bush's collaborators in the biggest lie in world history that included all the neo-conservatives and their Republican cohorts are now asking the President to pay attention to Afghanistan.

Why are we in Afghanistan? They're called PIPELINES!
What is the mission, what is the objective? Well, we keep hearing the same old, “we're fighting there so that the terrorists can't attack us again”, or, “we are bringing democracy to that nation”. If the American public still buys into that simplistic, faulted view after almost nine years of occupation, then it's time for a huge wake up call. We are there for one overriding reason; to establish a long-term presence in that region of the world to secure and guarantee future supplies of natural gas and petroleum.

Nuclear Weapons: The Ultimate Bargaining Chip
Barack Obama's quest to rid the world of Nuclear weapons appears to be gaining momentum. Years of discussion, especially regarding Iran's nuclear capability may finally be going America's way with the increasing support of Russia. In addition to putting immense pressure on Iran continuously pushing for increasingly heavier measures, the US has also called for both the US and Russia to reduce stockpiles,

The Struggle for Eurasia
Ever since Barack Obama took office Afghanistan has taken centre stage in US foreign policy thinking. Obama in his campaign for US president constantly reiterated that Afghanistan has become the forgotten war, the worlds attention was on Iraq, the otherthrow of Saddam's regime, the deepening crisis of the insurgency and the apparent dark role of Iran. The centre piece of Barack Obama's position was that the Iraq war was a mistake, and that he would end it, he argued that that Iraq was a distraction and that the major effort should be in Afghanistan where the Taliban have made a comeback from safe havens in Pakistan.

Analysing Obama's Honeymoon: The End of the Beginning
When Barrack Hussein Obama was inaugurated on January 20th 2009, he achieved something no other person of his race has ever done in the 232 year history of the United States. Obama become the first black man to take the oath of office and by doing so entered the history books as the 44th President of the United States.

Don’t Visit Us – Liberate Us
Umar Bin Al-Khattab (ra) in the year 636 was the first to do so. Under his command as Khaleefah, the armies of Islam, after their continued expansion outside the Arabian Peninsula, had reached the gates of Jerusalem (Al Quds) and had the city surrounded. Partly because of the city’s immense importance – it is home to Masjid-Al-Aqsa (the third holiest mosque in Islam) and had been the first Qibla for the Muslims – Umar (ra) himself journeyed to the land and oversaw the liberation of this sacred city.

America has lost yet another war
The events in Afghanistan over the passed few days clearly demonstrate that America and her allies are running out of options to extricate themselves from a hazardous quagmire that threatens to end their occupation in disgrace. The situation has rapidly deteriorated and the recent NATO airstrike which killed scores of innocent civilians not only epitomizes the callous attitude of the crusaders, but sets a new benchmark for measuring West’s sacred ideal of human rights when applied to the Muslims of Afghanistan—let alone the Muslim world. The indiscriminate killing of civilians belittles the oft quoted mantra of winning hearts and minds; instead it has diminished West’s credibility, appalled the nations of the world and more significantly emboldened the Afghan resistance.

Panacea for Our ills (Cure for Corruption)
Corruption has been rampant in our country since quit long. Given the fact that none of the governments over the years have been able to curb this menace, necessitates that we the public in general, and our intellectuals in particular contemplate and scrutinize the root cause of this lethal menace, rather than bickering about its symptoms in TV talk shows, seminars, articles etc.

C.I.A. Said to Use Outsiders to Put Bombs on Drones
They said that Blackwater’s direct role in these operations had sometimes led to disputes with the C.I.A. Sometimes when a Predator misses a target, agency employees accuse Blackwater of poor bomb assembly, they said. In one instance last year recounted by the employees, a 500-pound bomb dropped off a Predator before it hit the target, leading to a frantic search for the unexploded bomb in the remote Afghan-Pakistani border region. It was eventually found about 100 yards from the original target.

Geopolitics behind overpopulation
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Modernism unfolded - Trends in the Muslim world
Modernism, as a term with respect to reformation in religion, has had its origins in middle-ages in Europe. The modernist movement began as a result of ever increasing contradictions in the scientific approach and the dogmatic beliefs of the church. This eventually led to a gradual change. Before we begin to dwell into the details of how the Muslims in the contemporary world have responded to modernism, we need to have a picture of modernism as viewed from a number of different angles. One can approach the subject of modernism from three different angles.

Thousands of Ulema from around the globe call for Khilafah!
Thousands of Ulema from around the globe call for Khilafah at International Ulema Conference in Indonesia

Crying out for justice
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Obama creates a deadly power vacuum
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Analysis: Relieved US keeps base key to Afghan war
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Gazans: 'We face a dark destiny'
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Today's Gaza Tragedy Sets Stage For Tomorrow's
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Gazans: 'We are living a nightmare'
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Demonstration calling Muslim Armies to defend Gaza
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Gaza protests extend from Mideast to Europe
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Arab leaders seen as traitors as Gaza burns
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Blackwater Houses in Islamabad
According to a report published in Karachi’s Business Recorder on Nov. 28 sources said that the presence of American military contractors, like Blackwater World-wide, (now known as ‘Xe Service’) and Dyncorp, operating in Islamabad, had been extensively reported in the local media. Foreigners, mainly of US origin, have reportedly rented around 284 houses in different sectors of Islamabad, they said. According to details, 69 houses were rented by foreigners in F-6 sector, 85 houses in F-7, 62 houses in F-8, 15 houses in F-11, 12 houses in E-7, 38 houses in G-6, and three houses in I-8 sector of the capital.

Number of Blackwater personnel exceed Islamabad cops
Blackwater is present in Pakistan and is operating in the NWFP as well as other areas.

Blackwater behind bombings
The former head of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI, Asad Durrani said in an interview with Press TV that Blackwater, a notorious US security firm, is carrying out operations in the country. His comments came after the US Central intelligence Agency (CIA) revealed that Blackwater, which currently works under the name Xe Services, has been involved in drone attacks in Pakistan

DynCorp bribes Interior Ministry
The American defense contractor DynCorp is suspected of having bribed a personal assistant to the country’s interior minister to get a cache of sophisticated weapons into Pakistan without clearance from Pakistani security authorities.

Blackwater pays $1 million to silence Iraqi Officials
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.

Blackwater hires ex-army men on hefty amounts
In order to achieve desired results as early as possible, Blackwater is said to have hired retired officials of Pakistan’s law-enforcement agencies at highest ever salary packages, TheNation has learnt reliably. To the surprise of many, the agency is said to have hired Pakistani officials at the rate of astonishing $60,000 per month salary package.

ALERT: Blackwater Recruiting Agents Fluent In Urdu & Punjabi For Pakistan
Blackwater USA is looking for mercenaries fluent in Urdu, Pakistan’s national language, and Punjabi, the language spoken by natives of Pakistan’s largest populated province. The US military already deploys officers and commando units manned by people fluent in Pashto, spoken in most of western Pakistan and southern Afghanistan. Keeping in view the denials of the US embassy in Islamabad and the expanding American presence on Pakistani soil, these recruitments are obviously not meant for running call centers. Since Washington has unilaterally decided that Pakistan is now a ‘war theater’ after Iraq and Afghanistan, it is only natural that American terrorism will also be unleashed in Pakistan. Blackwater is in Pakistan.

Blackwater’s Aggressive Culture Keeps its Business Growing, Torture and Big Money
As the company grows, so do its headaches: a persistent congressional investigation, several high-profile lawsuits and a federal weapons investigation. Still, Blackwater is thriving because of its aggressive and entrepreneurial business culture and a strong network of Republican connections. The company has hired extensively from the top levels of the CIA, Defense Department and State Department, and named the former No. 2 official at the CIA to its Board of Advisors.

Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.

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