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Musharraf troubles may engulf Zardari and Sharifs

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Chief Justice Ifthikhar Chaudry has summoned Mr. Musharraf. This act of judicial activism not only scares Mr. Musharraf, but it also sends chills up the spines of the PPPP government which was absolved of all crimes by the National Reconciliation Ordinance. Mr. Sharif was also implicated in many corruption scandals and was part of General [...]

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Muslim Imams praying at airport exonerated: Can sue airline & police for wrongful arrest

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A few US citizens returning from a conference were waiting for the plane to take off. It was prayer time. So they all got together and began the prayer. A passenger complained and the police was called in, which arrested the patriotic American citizens who also happened to be Muslim. To cover up the deed, [...]

Muslim Imams praying at airport exonerated: Can sue airline & police for wrongful arrest

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"Pakistan cannot conduct a dialogue at the expense of its sovereignty, justice and honor”: Ambassador Haqqani

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 Mr. Husain Haqqani, ostensibly the Pakistan Ambassador to the USA, used to speak “Americanese“, a language understood only to the Americans. Pakistan did not understand what Mr. Haqqani said. Mr. Haqqani was like an echo chamber–simply repeating the talking points from Washington. This is one of the first speeches that Mr. Haqqani has made in [...]

"Pakistan cannot conduct a dialogue at the expense of its sovereignty, justice and honor”: Ambassador Haqqani

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Israeli arms Rep, Anti-EPA Roemer doubles as US Ambassador to Delhi

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Bharat is in the midst of making our planet a very unpleasant place to live. Bharat is the home of  the worst envirnomental debacle in the history of the planet. Bharat is home to the Bhopal disaster. Now the US is sending an Anti-environmental Ambassador to the home of victims of Enron. The message to [...]

Israeli arms Rep, Anti-EPA Roemer doubles as US Ambassador to Delhi

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Karzai agrees to shut down RAW camps training Balauch terrorists

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Bharat has been clamoring about terrorists from the high rooftops. Delhi has supported the terrorists in Nepal, the separatists in Tibet, the insurgents in Sri Lanka, the thugs in Maldives, the malcontents in Bangladesh. Bharat also has created trouble for Mayanmar, Bhutan, Sikkim, and even Thailand. Bharat also is creating problems in Xinjinag. This mentality [...]

Karzai agrees to shut down RAW camps training Balauch terrorists

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Afghanistan's Bravest Woman Malalai Joya: "Taliban are logistically & militarily growing stronger as each day dawns." "Afghan women and men are not 'liberated' at all"

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Taliban are logistically and militarily stabilised in hundreds of other parts of Afghanistan … and growing stronger as each day dawns.” The youngest woman in the Afghan parliament has used International Women’s Day to slam the “disastrous conditions” for women in her country and ask Australians to help bring change. Malalai Joya, 28, told a [...]

Afghanistan's Bravest Woman Malalai Joya: "Taliban are logistically & militarily growing stronger as each day dawns." "Afghan women and men are not 'liberated' at all"

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The US occupation has not brought security to Afghan women

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It is a year since I last saw Malalai Joya. She was at Stansted airport preparing to return to Afghanistan: a tiny figure clutching a large holdall and a gold-coloured trophy. It was the Anna Politkovskaya Award for human rights campaigning and Ms Joya was the second recipient. Some might say the trophy brings with [...]

The US occupation has not brought security to Afghan women

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Afghanistan/Pakistan: Can the US Prevail? No!

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I had a flashback recently when I read a Washington Post news story about how the U.S. commander in Afghanistan thinks he may need many thousands more troops to win the war. Shades of Vietnam. Do we ever learn? It brought back memories of the late Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in Southeast [...]

Afghanistan/Pakistan: Can the US Prevail? No!

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Speed trains for the US. Finally!

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The House is set today to vote on a fiscal 2010 transportation spending bill that would provide $4 billion for high-speed rail and lay the groundwork for the creation of a national infrastructure bank. H.R. 3288 (pdf) would provide a total of $75.8 billion for the Transportation Department, an $8.6 billion jump from fiscal 2009. [...]

Speed trains for the US. Finally!

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Why Pakistan wont move troops from the Eastern border

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Pakistan has assertively asserverted its position on troops movement on the Eastern border. To the chagrin of the Bharati politicians, Islamabad has publicly and privately avouched that it will keep the troops facing Bharat. The Bharatis had hoped that by sending mercenaries across the border and creating problems in FATA and SWAT, they could force [...]

Why Pakistan wont move troops from the Eastern border

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