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Controversial contractor eligible for lucrative new Pentagon bids By Suzanne Simons and Mike Mount, CNN February 26, 2010 4:47 p.m. Washington (CNN) -- Despite revelations in a congressional investigation of a subsidiary's mismanagement and questionable vetting of employees, the company...

Blackwater: Company Non Grata in Pakistan For months, the Pakistani media has been flooded with stories about Blackwater's alleged growing presence in the country. For the most part, these stories have been ignored by the US press and denounced as lies or propaganda by US officials in...

The Counterterrorism Tag Team in Karachi The covert JSOC program with Blackwater in Pakistan dates back to at least 2007, according to the military intelligence source. The current head of JSOC is Vice Adm. William McRaven, who took over the post from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who headed JSOC...

The Secret US War in Pakistan By Jeremy Scahill At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted...

History of Blackwater In the late 1990s, Erik Prince spent part of his inherited wealth to purchase about 6,000 acres (24 km2) of the Great Dismal Swamp, a vast swamp on the North Carolina/Virginia border, now mostly a National Wildlife Refuge. Here he created his state-of-the-art private...

THE Supreme Court the other day had a word of praise for the parliamentary committee on constitutional reforms’ keen eye in detecting that the word ‘freely’ had been deleted from the text of the Objectives Resolution. In its original form, the resolution required the state to make adequate...

QUETTA: Chief Minister of Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani dismissed the Minister for minority affairs Jaffer George from his office, Geo News reported Sunday. According to government sources, the Balochistan CM sacked the minority affairs minister on receipt of report from the...

Iran is not a piece of cake like afghanistan and iraq.

THE announcement of Sindh’s Rs442bn budget for 2010-11 has been met with a mix of hope and trepidation. Though there has been a significant increase in the development outlay, there is also a Rs25bn deficit. Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah assured the assembly on Friday that “additional...

PUBLIC land like parks should be run by public entities. This was the gist of the 62-page Supreme Court verdict on private development/commercial activities in a major Islamabad park. The verdict on Fatima Jinnah Park reinforces a 2006 SC ruling directing the Capital Development Authority to...

We expected better from a popularly elected government that had promised to ease the misery of the people. Its predecessor was the product of a military dictator’s ‘tailored’ democracy in which government officials were answerable only to one man. The current administration, in sharp...

Try as they might — though some may argue they aren’t trying at all — the Supreme Court and the executive just cannot seem to get along. Friday brought more unhappy tidings on two fronts. First, the Supreme Court bench looking into the matter of the implementation of the NRO judgment...

The recent spate of acquittals of alleged terrorists has brought into question the authorities’ capacity to investigate and try terrorism-related crimes. Since April, at least 33 alleged terrorists have been released by anti-terrorism courts, mostly because of lack of evidence. They had been...

The beautiful game has come to Africa. With South Africa hosting the month-long 2010 football World Cup, the nation has shown it has come a long way since the dark days of apartheid. South Africa has hosted various international sporting events since the end of apartheid in 1994, including the...

hows mine? in world's history only one pilot have completed 6000 flying hrs on f-16 mrf

my suggestion is regarding award of army ranks to members. 1.there should be one general being the chief of the site 2.then like corps commanders there should be limited number of Lt Gens 3. Maj Gen also limited and others 4. promotion upto the rank of major should be on number of posts...

Save me from my friends and I'll look after my enemies! In other words, the first duty of a friend who cannot be helpful is at least to do no harm. Has Pakistan been a good friend of Kashmir? It is often said we cannot sacrifice Pakistan for the sake of Kashmir. But no Kashmiri asks Pakistan to...

we are facing a cultural attack in result of that we are suffering with identity crisis. a star plus genration is created who r not pakstani nor indian who r not westren nor eastren . we need to fight this situation coz i really think this is creating disruption n frustration among our genration...

The law of the land is not applicable to the select few and they openly ignore even court orders. In the olden days a Qazi would hear and decide cases quickly and fairly. Our history and traditions have many golden chapters. There were not merely a dozen or so honest, efficient rulers, but...

The fourth round of sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council on Iran on Wednesday is bound to trigger a new Tehran-centred nuclear crisis. UNSC resolution 1929 slaps new punitive measures on Tehran that include financial curbs, an expanded arms embargo and permission to seize cargo related...