The notorious border areas on Afghan border in Pakistan have again earned further notoriety by providing haven to the fugitive Al-Qaeda's leadership. These areas are known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan. Even the Britishers during...
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Jacques Derrida points out in Rogues, that in the name of protecting democracy a popular election was suspended in Algeria so as to protect it against the democratic election of a fundamentalist regime. It means a suspension of democracy in the name of...
An unnecessary controversy has been raged on the reported statement of the U.S. Ambassador to India David C. Mulford. India's foreign office, in a panic reaction, summoned the Ambassador and gave a dressing down to him. Under the heading ' Reject the...
Latin America, considered by the United States of America as its backyard, is fast becoming a growing movement against the neo-liberal economics of the Washington Consensus and against the Washington domination. We are watching the survival of Cuba,...
The U.S. striked in the Pakistan's territory in search of Talibans without taking the Pakistani rulers in confidence. The Talibans were goomed by Pakistan in connivance with the U.S. CIA. Indeed it was an attack on the sovereignty of a nation. But...
The United States of America continues to be big market for godmen of all shades, Buddhist and Hindu. It has been indeed the India's cutting-edge exports since Rajneesh of Osho fame landed in the U.S. in 1990s, followed by the Karmapa cult of the...
India has become one of the hottest child sex tourism destinations. A report, 'Trafficking in Women and Children in India', sponsored by a statutory body, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), highlights this, mentionining not just Goa, which since...
When US President Bush visits India in March 2006, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in league with other Left parties in India has planned to greet him with slogans such as "hands off Cuba" and "stop the hostile activities against Cuba". The...
Mukhtar Mai, the Pakistani woman whose defiant response to being gang-raped by order of a tribal court brought her worldwide attention, was denied a chance to speak at the United Nations on Friday after Pakistan protested that it was the same day the...
Bin Laden is the man who defied America, who gored the only superpower and got away with it. He is now a symbol --Abu Jihad, the father of the holy struggle -- and a spiritual leader, an inspiration and a role model to millions. Much as Che Guevara was...
Al Qaeda's No. 2 Follows bin Laden's Lead and Resurfaces
Just a day after Osama bin Laden resurfaced in a lengthy audiotape, a new recording by his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appeared on January 20, praising the "martyrs of holy war" in...
The United States said that comments by Iran's top nuclear negotiator that New Delhi received preferential international treatment on nuclear proliferation issues were "outrageous".
"We have seen the comments. They are outrageous," US...
Jim Carroll, father of the kidnapped US journalist Jill Carroll,28, a freelancer, working for the Christian Science Monitor, has talked an Al Arabiya TV reporter on Thursday to appeal for her release. Her captors want the United States to release all...
The recent reported offer by the dreaded terrorists kingpin Osama bin Laden for a conditional truce with the USA gives credence to the rumours during the past that the most wanted man on the list of the U.S.A. is no more alive and seemed to be dead in...
Dismayed by recent election setbacks, the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS)is learning the hard way that sewage systems matter as much as faith when it comes to winning votes an an election in democracy.
This is not a new development. In India where...
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