Posted on 31 January 2011.
The panic-stricken family of President Mubarak has reportedly fled Egypt for the luxurious refuge of their £8.5 million London townhouse. There are reports in the mainstream US media that the Obama Administration is preparing for an Egypt without US protégé Mr. Hosni Mubarak. The White today faces the same dilemma as it faced in Iran [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Politics, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 31 January 2011.
US mercenary with fake name and fake identity The plot thickens. US Embassy claims have been identified as false. It is now being revealed that both Pakistani men who were supposedly attacking Mr. ‘Raymond Davis’ were actually shot from behind, which makes the US Embassy’s the self-defense story untenable. ” The PPP government should not [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, Uncategorized, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 31 January 2011.
Rached Ghannouchi The Muslim world is shaking off its post-colonial slavery in three prominent places on the planet. After a long time Lebanon has finally asserted itself. The newly-formed, Hezbollah-supported government in Lebanon; there is a ever popular revolution in Tunisia; and there is a revolt in Egypt. Aljazeera called it the “The Tunisia effect” [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Politics
Posted on 30 January 2011.
Cotton prices sustained their upward trajectory this week–with predictions that exports will cross $22 billion in fiscal year 2011 on the back of increases in cotton and rice prices in the international market. There has been a 20% rise in cotton exports and the farmers have been getting asking prices. Thursday, cotton prices rose to [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics
Posted on 30 January 2011.
Egypt’s map 1922-1958 As the US frets if the next Egyptian government will be led by the Islamic Brotherhood or Ikhwan ul Muslimeen (IUM), there is no doubt that the Brotherhood will take over Cairo within weeks. Those who think Mr. Mubarak will survive this storm, and wish that the IUM will not take over [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Politics, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 30 January 2011.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui an MIT graduate, now a prisoner in America Dr. Aafia Siddiqui a graduate of MIT allegedly fired at US marines in Afghanistan, trying to escape her captors after several years of rape and abuse. Her three children faced a similar fate in Baghram prison run by the Americans. During the trial the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Politics, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 30 January 2011.
Israel’s American foothold in South Sudan The US sees the emergence of Southern Sudan as a “victory” and a coup against its global rival, China. The Israelis spread depredation and nurtured and fed the civil war since 1955 when Southern soldiers mutinied against Northern officers. The proxy War continued at different levels of intensity for [...]
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Posted in China, China CA, Current Affairs, Politics, Uncategorized, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 30 January 2011.
Dr. Tajammal Hussain talking about Pakistan says that “India as a Mahabharata entity never existed–IVC is a separate thing, you must also keep in mind our language and ethnic aspect is distinct from rest of old British India, here we are not talking of who came first but as through evolution a state and empire [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, History, Pak CA, S. Asia History
Posted on 30 January 2011.
Dead Sea Scrolls in Amman Jordan New authors and intellectuals have only now begus to challenge the versions of history that were doled out by the colonial powers. Millions of pages of Muslim history are still stored in Topkapi and other vaults of knowledge. Thousands of historical secrets about science and technology remain locked up [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, History, S. Asia History, Uncategorized
Posted on 30 January 2011.
Dead Sea Scrolls in Amman Jordan New authors and intellectuals have only now begus to challenge the versions of history that were doled out by the colonial powers. Millions of pages of Muslim history are still stored in Topkapi and other vaults of knowledge. Thousands of historical secrets about science and technology remain locked up [...]
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Posted in History, Pak CA, S. Asia History