The special anti-terror unit of the Indonesian police, called Densus 88 [also called Detachment 88], is hurting the Islamic extremists badly in Indonesia. The elite team, financed and trained by the US and Australia, has arrested many militants in the...
For past twenty years, I have been perplexed with the question, why military has become an inalienable part of political and social life in Pakistan? On countless occasions, a democratically elected government was over thrown in bloodless coup and...
Afghanistan hasn't fully been liberated from evil perils of the Taliban and al-Qaeda or Islamic terrorism even after six years of continuous war since it began in 2001, yet another problem in the form of illegal drugs (opium) production and trade with...
Religious extremism and orthodoxy continues unabated in the Pakistan. The notorious Red Mosque brigade of the Islamic seminary students staged another coup, when they captured five Chinese nationals working as masseuses on the pretext of being...
The rebels continue to ravage the possibility of peace in Southern Myanmar. Led by Karen National Union, the belligerents are among the world's longest-running insurgencies. Last week, more innocent blood spattered on the roads, as the dissenters...
As NATO forces have intensified their military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in the volatile Southern region of Afghanistan, close to the border with Pakistan, hundreds of civilians have also been killed on either side of the...
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has defiantly stated that the Taliban no longer pose a threat to long-term stability in his country.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Karzai dismissing threats from the militant group that it is planning to step...
In a bid to enforce new set of reforms, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev dissolved the Central Asian state's Parliament and announced new elections to the dismay of the opposition which calls it a deception to reign supreme in the...
China may have heading towards becoming the super power or largest economy in the entire world, but its exploitation of forced or slave labor, including children and the ill treatment of workers across the nation drags it into the dark ages.
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Today while going through a news, 'Could Pakistan fall to extremists', on Yahoo by Mark Sappenfield and David Montero, I really felt gruesome to know that someone still needs to make out that Pakistan is falling to extremists, ridiculous!...
Amidst uproars that it is exporting unsafe products from toothpaste to pet food, China's regulatory standards chief has guaranteed to review food safety norms in the country.
Of late, Chinese products have been found to be containing toxics...
Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters continue to dominate the tribal agencies and are mounting into the settled districts of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan after NATO forces thrashed them from Afghanistan in 2001 for hosting Bin Laden and his...
One cannot say whether the US is winning the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan but it seems to be loosing the support of the Afghan people. In an air strike on a residential area in Zarghun Shah district in Paktika province seven children were...
There is no respite in the confrontations with international community that sees N.Korean nuclear strife as a threat to their security and these trepidations are increasing with its continuous missile tests and confrontations with IAEA. The latest...
The U.S. official, Christopher Hill, at North Korean nuclear talks made a stern statement on Sunday that complete eradication of the communist regime's atomic program remains far from satisfactory levels. But in the same breathe he also welcomed the...
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