In harsh terms, John Kerry needs to not be such a pussy and go over there and cut all aid unless he is freed on the spot and leaves with him,end of story. But the Tsarnaev brothers were A-OK. “Pakistani doctor who helped get Bin Laden was denied asylum in U.S., report reveals,” by Sib … Continue reading »
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FBI Informant Claims Taliban Members Are Living In America
Duh.. MIAMI (CBS4) – “I am an informant and all I can tell you is that Talibans are walking freely right here in the soil of America right now, right now.” That’s the haunting worry of South Floridian David Mahmood Siddiqui. He was the confidential FBI informant who has a rare view of of trying to infiltrate a largely secreted world … Continue reading »
White Muslim convert faces prison after terrorism charge
Thirty-year-old Richard Dart planned to attack the small town of Royal Wootton Bassett. (Reuters) Al Arabiya – A white British male who converted to Islam was sentenced to jail early Thursday after he pleaded guilty to taking part in planning terror attacks on the heads of MI5 and MI6. According to The Times newspaper, … Continue reading »
Revealing India and Pakistan’s Ancient Art and Inventions
by Andrew Howley The three-day “Dialogue of Civilizations” conference in Guatemala is bringing together archaeologists studying five ancient cultures to discuss their similarities and differences and what they can tell us about human society as a whole. You can be a part of the conversation as well, tweeting your questions using #5Civilizations. China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, … Continue reading »
Al-Qaeda Toddlers Filmed Firing Guns At Weapons Training Camp (VIDEO)
Screen shot of child taking target practice. Photo: Youtube. A video making the rounds on the internet shows children as young as five shooting weapons at an Al-Qaeda training camp. The boys stand, sit and lie in rows while taking target practice. The weapons of choice appear to be AK-47s, pistols and, ironically, Israeli-made Negev … Continue reading »
Who rules Pakistan?
By Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi Pakistan is approaching the 10th general elections. It is, therefore, pertinent to ask who rules this country. There is no brief and single answer to this question. If we focus on the elections, we can argue that the people are the ultimate rulers of Pakistan. From another angle, a small … Continue reading »
U.S. may be wittingly funneling millions of dollars to Taliban in Afghanistan
Of course. Why not? What’s to stop this? There is no reliable way to discern jihadists from “allies” in Afghanistan, as the numerous green-on-blue attacks indicate. And even to try to institute some control would be “Islamophobic.” “US May Unwittingly Fund Terrorism in Afghanistan: Report,” by Lee Ferran for ABC News, April 12 (thanks to … Continue reading »
Strong youth support for Shariah in Pakistan
Hundreds of supporters of different religious and political parties take part in an anti-U.S. and Indian rally organized by the Difa-e-Pakistan Council in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (Reuters) FP, Islamabad – More than half of young Pakistanis believe democracy has not been good for their country and nearly 40 percent are in favor of having Islamic … Continue reading »
Pakistani clerics endorse suicide bombings, reject proposed peace conference
Pakistani clerics endorse suicide bombings, reject proposed peace conference By Lisa LundquistMarch 2, 2013 Tahir Ashrafi, the head of the Pakistan Ulema Council. Image from TOLOnews. The tortuous path of the Afghan government’s plan for a regional ulema conference that would issue a fatwa condemning suicide attacks reached a new impasse yesterday when the … Continue reading »
Man beaten up by his two ex-wives for marrying the third sister
Pakistani brides taking part in a mass marriage ceremony for couples. (AFP) By Al Arabiya /A Pakistani man was beaten by his two former ex-wives (sisters) for allegedly kidnapping and forcing their youngest sister into marrying him, local media reported on Thursday. The beating took place outside a courtroom in Gujranwala, north-east of Punjab province … Continue reading »
Pakistan’s secret war in Baluchistan
Certain conflicts are fashionable to follow from the point of view of activists and commentators, others are not. The on-going and increasingly brutal conflict in Baluchistan is an example of one that is not. Baluchistan is the largest yet least populated region of Pakistan. It is also the poorest and least developed yet contains … Continue reading »
New Year, New Problem? Pakistan’s Tactical Nukes
Pakistan is developing a new generation of smaller “tactical” nuclear weapons. The dangers and challenges such arms present are very real. October of last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Many Asian policymakers will read the lessons of that harrowing episode with some self-satisfaction. When India and Pakistan conducted their … Continue reading »
Pakistan: The most dangerous country in the world
The subcontinent of South Asia has inexorably been developing into a cauldron of violence ever since the origins of Islam in Arabia and its steady expansion to the east. Here it clashed with Hinduism a religion that was an antithesis of Islam and over the centuries this unhappy mix has been smoldering and has … Continue reading »
Pakistan: Muslim mob burns alive man accused of desecrating Qur’an
Try not to be so ethnocentric. Be more like Michael Potemra of National Review, who wrote: “The Koran is one of the loveliest books ever written, a distillation of monotheism that is full of spiritual wisdom, and I never fail to profit from my reading of it.” It’s understandable that the pious would want to … Continue reading »
Turkey to help secure Af-Pak border
Some groups, or rather some states, simply do not want the two neighbors, Pakistan and Afghanistan, to mend fences over their disagreements, and they are doing everything in their power to derail the rapprochement efforts between these two countries brokered by Turkey, a trusted ally of both countries. Turkish President Abdullah Gül clearly made a … Continue reading »
Obama Administration: Limits on jizya to Pakistan can hurt terror war in Afghanistan
“The Obama administration has warned Congress that some of the restrictions it has placed on Pakistan can jeopardise the US-led campaign against terrorism in Afghanistan.” And hey, that is going so wonderfully well, we wouldn’t want to do anything to jeopardize it. Just remember how cooperative the Pakistanis were in taking out bin Laden, and … Continue reading »
