The fiendish claws of terrorism are gripping the whole world with rampant pace and the Philippine is not an exception where more than 1700 civilians are killed or injured due to the lethal Islamic violence since 2000, wherein 400 deaths are the...
Archive - July 2007
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The countdown - of killing the Korean hostages - has begun and the Taliban has a bag full of atrocities and evils to be tossed up in the days to come. The Taliban are proving to be a tough negotiator this time around and as a testimony of the fact that...
East Timor, the newest member of the comity of nations is yet to see political stability. Deeply divided on ideological lines and strictly antagonistic to each other, the political parties of East Timor are yet to arrive at the agreement to make a...
Australian government is close to making a decision on selling uranium to India with Canberra dismissing fears that the South Asian nation might use it for nuclear weapons.
There are no moments of joy left for incumbent president Musharraf as he is facing the most crucial period of his presidential career for some whimsical decisions (sacking chief justice and putting restrictions on media) in the past and mainly due to...
It is typical ploy used by the police everywhere. One cop threatens the person interrogated while the second one then acts sympathetic. The aim of all this is to soften the victim to make him more pliant. The first policeman is the US; the second one is...
Taiwan's application to join the UN was turned down once again. The world body said it was turned down because of the 'one-china' resolution of 1971. Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian did this to shore up electoral support what with elections coming...
New US horizons in its 'war on terror' are generating the striking developments in Pakistan nowadays and forcing Musharraf to take decisive action against insurgency. US intentions to strike al-Qaeda in Waziristan has further unnerved the country...
As if Lal Masjid carnage and the growing resentment amongst masses against President Musharraf weren't enough, a devastating storm has further agonized Pakistan's pain. The storm created havoc on July 20, in which lightning and heavy rain engulfed...
It's to be believed that Bush administration is planning to help North Korea which is going to shut down its nuclear-weapons facilities.
In the recent past, military government of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has been under severe pressure. Never before has he been under so great a siege since he took the charge of Pakistan about eight years back in a military coup in 1999. ...
Pakistan's Lal Masjid, whose radical clerics and students were involved in a bloody stand-off with the government, is all set to wear a brand new look.
It will now have a new name, a moderate cleric heading it and its colour refurbished in green...
US's war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan is a saga of desperation and the reports that al-Qaeda is strongest since 2001 added salt to its injury. Now US eyes a new hunting sphere in Western Pakistan (Waziristan) to give its 'war on terror' a final...
Blunting all international efforts to curb it, the cultivation of Afghanistan's heroin-producing poppy crop that contributes to more than half of total narcotic trade in Europe, is spreading menacingly. With a bumper poppy crop this season and...
The area wears a dilapidated look with most of the schools, hospitals and homes deserted by their inhabitants. A place where being a woman is a crime. Yes, I am talking about Pakistan's tribal Wajiristan, often dubbed as a stronghold of the Taliban...
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