ALI SUKHANVER
After the Mumbai Blasts, the whole life in India began to revolve around this horrible incident. One can find the after shocks of this quake even after so many months. Certainly it was the worst episode in the Indian history of terrorism. The democratic people of India were of the opinion that the matter [...]

CARAM Asia – NGO with Special Consultative Status in the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
As governments from around the world convene for the third annual Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) many in the civil society sector continue to question the credibility of the forum as a valid platform capable of [...]

By Stephen Lendman -02 November, 2009 Countercurrents.org
On October 28, New York Times writer Nick Bunkley wrote the following:
“Federal agents (today) fatally shot a man they described as the leader of a violent Sunni Muslim separatist group in Detroit.” Targeted was Luqman Ameen Abdullah “whom agents were trying to arrest in Dearborn on charges that included [...]

ALI SUKHANVER- The writer is a Pakistan based bilingual analyst on national and international strategic and defense affairs.
Pak-India friendship is the most essential and almost inevitable element for a long lasting and deep rooted peace in South Asia. The present warlike scenario along the Pak-India borders can adopt an altogether different look if the two countries [...]

By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir
King Mohammed VI of Morocco will deliver a highly anticipated speech this November 6th–the anniversary of the Green March of 1975 when 350,000 unarmed Moroccans crossed into the Western Sahara. On this same occasion last year, Morocco’s King presented his “roadmap” to decentralize “all parts of the Kingdom, especially the Moroccan Sahara [...]

Nava Thakuria
The Shwe Gas Movement, an oil and gas watchdog, along with a number of well wisher and supporters are officially going to urge the Chinese government to suspend the Shwe Gas and Oil Pipeline Project in Burma (Myanmar). The Burmese organization has already initiated for gathering endorsements for an open letter to the President [...]

ALI SUKHANVER
Are we heading towards a blind alley?  Is this war in Waziristan going to be a death knell for 170 million Pakistanis? Will the anti-Muslim Allied forces succeed in wiping off Pakistan from the world map? Most of the Pakistanis are going to say ‘No” in response to all these questions; simply because they [...]

By ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN
AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission to pry open closed societies, advocate basic freedoms and support dissenters. [...]

Reflections by comrade Fidel
The festivities associated to the 7th ALBA Summit, held in the historic Bolivian region of Cochabamba, showed the rich culture of the Latin American peoples and the joy elicited in children, young people and adults in general by the singing, the dancing, the costumes and rich expressions of the human beings of [...]

By Abid Bahar,
Lately Burma shows genuine confidence for a possible confrontation with Bangladesh. This could be due to Indian involvement in Burmese politics especially in the disputes over the maritime boundary. In this area India and Burma are working together against Bangladesh.
We also have reports about Indian presence in Arakan gas projects and in the [...]

Nava Thakuria
If someone wants to see revolutionary armed rebels, who donot hesitate to show their supremacy on the unarmed common people, but never dare to fight against the government armed forces, please visit Assam. The Northeastern State has given space for over ten active militant outfits, which have been waging a war against the Union [...]

R. Bandarage, Cottesloe – Western Australia.
As an Australian of Sri Lanka origin I can confidently state that the man and the young girl on the boat detained in Indonesia shown on TV on Thursday are not direct arrivals from Sri Lanka. They do not have a Tamil accent nor do their English and the manner [...]

Reflections by comrade Fidel
If Obama was awarded the Nobel for winning the elections in a racist society despite his being African American, Evo deserves it for winning them in his country despite his being a native and his having delivered on his promises.
For the first time, in both countries a member of their respective ethnic [...]

I A Khanzada
As the much-heralded “AfPak” assessment was bitterly criticized by politically alive civic society as well as congressional Democrats, it is followed by another assessment of Afghanistan’s deteriorating situation by General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan. According to Gen. McChrystal, the present situation of Afghanistan is very grim and without [...]

Ray Alif
On the lines of recent successful talks between Afghan government and representatives of Taliban, US stared series of sectet meetings with elements loyal to Taliban. White House officially announced on October 8, 2009 that the Taliban posed less of a threat to US security than Al-Qaida Moments later, militants carried out attack near the [...]

By: Mashaal Javed
It was the fall of Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001 that paved the way for foreign powers to intervene in Afghanistan to secure their strategic interests. The strategic location of Afghanistan provides a perfect conduit for extracting and channeling vast energy resources of Central Asia to their respective countries. However, the ingress [...]

ALI SUKHANVER-The writer is a Pakistan based bilingual analyst on national and international strategic and defense affairs.
Actions are never without reasons. Hidden motives, concealed intentions and veiled objectives give birth to conspiracies. The coward terrorist attacks on the GHQ , Rawalpindi ,  are also a masterly fabricated conspiracy; salute to the armed forces of Pakistan [...]

Reflections by comrade Fidel
The Empire has ruled the world through economy and deceit rather than force.
At the end of WWII, it had attained the privilege of minting the convertible hard currency, the monopoly over the nuclear weapon and the possession of most of the gold in the world while it was the only large-scale producer [...]

ALI SUKHANVER
10th October, 2009; an unforgettable day in the history of terrorism, would always make the world realize that Pakistan is facing the worst consequences of terrorism. The terrorist attacks on the GHQ in Rawalpindi are the worst example of terrorism. Though the security forces of Pakistan very successfully proved their skill and competence by [...]

Written by: Mamoona Ali Kazmi
The people in India’s mineral heartland are tribals, who are the poorest of the poor, and the government’s war against India’s indigenous people is a frightening and unjust one says writer-activist Arundhati Roy.
Recently, a newspaper advertisement published by the Indian government reads “Naxalites are nothing but cold-blooded criminals”. This advertisement is [...]

Reflections by Comrade Fidel
Last October 1st commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Peoples’ Republic of China.
On that historic day in 1949, Mao Zedong presided over the first parade of the Peoples’ Army and the people of China in Tiananmen Square as leader of the Communist Party of China. The victorious soldiers were carrying the weapons [...]

By: Mashaal Javed
Afghanistan conducted yet another election on 20th August to elect a President for itself with lots of hopes for a better future tomorrow. Despite a lot of Taliban threats to the Afghan populace not to cast their votes or else they would face severe consequences, there were a considerable number of them who [...]

Nava Thakuria
Does a war between China and India become inevitable-this is question hundred thousands Indiana are making whenever they glue to the news channels or read newspapers in the last few days. In fact, everyone in the country is talking about a forthcoming battle, if not a war, against China, as most of the mainstream [...]

by Ernesto Cienfuegos La Voz de Aztlan
In 2007, there were 248,300 victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assaults in USA.There are 525,600 minutes in a non-leap year. That makes 31,536,000 seconds/year. So, 31,536,000 divided by 248,300 comes out to 1 sexual assault every 127 seconds, or about 1 every 2 minutes.
USA rape and sodomization [...]

Reflections by comrade Fidel
Powerful economic powers were contesting for the venue of the Olympic Games of 2016, including the two most industrialized nations of the planet: the United States of America and Japan. However, Rio de Janeiro, a Brazilian city, won the contest.
Let it not be said that the wealthy nations were generous to Brazil, [...]

ALI SUKHANVER
The writer is a Pakistan based bilingual analyst on national and international strategic and defense affairs.
In a recent statement the US Deputy Ambassador to Pakistan Gerald Festine has pointed out the presence of two Al-Qaida leaders Mulla Umar and Usama Bin Laden in Pakistan. According to him the presence of these two leaders was [...]

INFORMATION OFFICE

Mr. President,
I wish to congratulate you on your election and reiterate to you our confidence on your capacity to unerringly conduct our works and deliberations.
Likewise I would like to recognize the excellent work developed by Father Miguel D’ Escoto, President of the recently concluded session. The ethical dimension and the political scope of his [...]

Reflections by Comrade Fidel
The final declaration from the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh on Friday, September 25 seems unreal. Let’s have a look at the main points in its contents:
“We meet in the midst of a critical transition from crisis to recovery to turn the page on an era of irresponsibility and to adopt a set [...]

A.Siddique
Ever since the coming down of the WTC twin towers in New York on September Eleven 2001, terrorism has acquired the status of a regulatory tap that India has compulsively employed to control the ebb and flow of Indo Pak bilateral relations. The strategy has served them well and even after passage of nine years [...]

ALI SUKHANVER 
The writer is a Pakistan based bilingual analyst on national and international strategic and defense affairs.
Obscurity generates fear; disinformation disables best of our abilities; darkness crushes the very inside of us; nights could be pleasing but for a very short chunk of time. That is why most of the people keep on waiting for [...]