Calling America’s bluff
By Kurt Jacobsen and Sayeed Hassan Khan
HAS Obama unwittingly called his own bluff? The spooky so-called mastermind Osama Bin Laden is rubbed out, courtesy a Hollywood-style hit squad operation. What more is there to say?
Everything, actually. But nervous...
By TAJ M. KHATTAK
ISLAMABAD, PakistanIn 1961, US vice president Lyndon B Johnson shook hands with camel-cart driver Bashir Ahmed during a state visit to Pakistan, patted his camel and said: You come to Washington and see us sometime.
Bashirs subsequent twelve-day visit to the US...
I Had Ray Daviss Job, in Laos 30 Years Ago. Same Cover, Same Lies.
By ROBERT ANDERSON
The story of Raymond Allen Davis is one familiar to me and I wish our government would quit doing these things they cost us credibility.
Davis is the American being held as a spy working under...
Americas Mala Fide Intent?
By Shireen M Mazari
It seems there are some in the Pakistani media who will buy into the official US line on Davis and get irked, by the likes of this columnist, enough to name her in their rather histrionic defence of the murderer (regardless of his rather...
Davis a Gun-For-Hire and Not Diplomat
by H D S Greenway
There were lots of things to be afraid of in Baghdad in the bad old days kidnapping, beheading, truck bombs but nothing scared me more than trigger-happy Americans who careened out of the Green Zone, ready to shoot anybody and...
Its not radical Islam that worries the US its independence
Noam Chomsky | The Guardian, UK
The nature of any regime it backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. Subjects are ignored until they break their chains
The Arab world is on fire, al-Jazeera reported last week...
Accused US diplomat holds no special privileges
LAHORE: Deputy Prosecutor General of Punjab, Rana Bakhtiar said on Sunday that Raymond Davis had fired the bullets from the back thus it was not a case of self defense as he had stated earlier.
Referring to Article 49-2 of the Vienna...
Lahore Shootings: As The Case Unfolds, The Mystery Deepens
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: As the US diplomatic machinery moved to calm a brewing storm over Thursdays shooting incident in Lahore involving an official attached to its consulate, peculiar details are trickling in regarding the exact identity...
A Skeptics View: Why Wiki Leaks Embarrass Pakistan And Not Israel
WASHINGTON, DCFor the last four days, newspaper headlines around the globe have covered a cornucopia of diplomatic scandals, resulting from the leaking of some 250,000 cables of the US State Department to the New York Times...
For the record, reactors do not use highly enriched uranium (HEU) but natural uranium and heavy water. I cannot comprehend what US (or you for that matter) means by saying "removing HEU from reactor."
Remember the brand launch of Osama Bin Laden & Al-Qaeda by the American Govt. under President Bush? Looks like a new brand launch is on its way. This time its of Juliann Assange & WikiLeaks. Similar media reporting, a ghost being painted out of a nobody. He’s being branded as a threat to...
The Dangerous Great Game: A Global Economic System Erected on Inhuman and Predatory Values
by Prof. Mujahid Kamran
The control of the US by the wealthiest families of the planet is exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine manner. The elite owns the media, banks, defence and oil...
Most Pakistanis missed a newspaper advertisement over the weekend that indicates that Pakistans elected rulers have no qualms conducting deals away from public scrutiny worth billionseven when there are public complaints about it.
AHMED QURAISHI & BILAL KHAN UMERZAI
ISLAMABAD...