Vladimir Putin “Anyone who does not regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart...”
Barack Obama “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition...”
Following is a list of United Nations Security Council resolutions directly critical of Israel for violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.N. Charter, the Geneva Conventions, international terrorism, or other violations of international law. Res. 57 (Sep. 18, 1948) – Expresses deep shock at the assassination of the U.N. Mediator in Palestine, Count Folke [...]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said judiciary is there to strengthen democracy in Pakistan. We will not allow confrontations among state’s institutions, he maintained. This CJ remarked during hearing of case regarding the promotions of bureaucracy brass here in Supreme Court (SC). I had ruled in black and white on July [...]
Israel has a long history in the creation and promotion of terrorism. That history was prominent in the role of the Zionist gangs, the Irgun Zwei Leumi, the Stern and the Haganah, before the creation of the state of Israel, as in the well-known stories of the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, amongst others, and [...]
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. – Plato, ancient Greek philosopher …The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against [...]
Why does social change seem so difficult? What can we do about it? With the array of needs unmet, it’s fair to say that our collective efforts fall short. Worse, urgent outcomes may appear foreclosed to us: You can’t get there from here. With our lingering faith in human effort, however, we arise in the [...]
2010 is Election Year for America. On Nov 2, voters will elect 440 members of the United States House of Representatives. The same day, elections will be held for at least 36 of the 100 seats in the Untied States Senate. The same day, gubernatorial elections will be held in 36 states. In 2010, the [...]
WASHINGTON: A series of U.S. predator drone strikes just after dawn yesterday morning killed at least 220 suspected terrorists, many presumed to have ties with al-Qaeda, at the naval detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to two senior White House officials. “We hit the jackpot,” said one official who requested anonymity because of the [...]
It was a year that started badly and just kept getting worse. Deepening global economic difficulties combined with a familiar mix of political failure, military conflict and societal dysfunction to induce a pervasive sense of gloom about the course of world events. The year opened with unconscionable bloodshed in Gaza and ended in bitter anti-climax [...]
On the eve of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, historian Chalmers Johnson observed in The Sorrows of Empire: “At this late date … it is difficult to imagine how Congress, much like the Roman senate in the last days of the republic, could be brought back to life and cleansed of its endemic corruption.” [...]
Prior to the establishment of Israel, Palestine had been a multi-religious and multi-cultural country. Christians, Muslims and Jews, Armenians, Greek Orthodox, to name a few, all had a place there; and all lived in relative harmony. Other nations fought wars and waged epic struggles to attain the kind of coexistence that was already a reality [...]
On the first anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip – in my view it was a demonstration of Israeli state terrorism at its most naked – it’s not enough to say that the governments of the Western powers (and others) are complicit in Israel’s on-going collective punishment of 1.5 million [...]
Firstly, as far as the PPP’s deal with the Government is concerned, I personally think that both parties may be in touch, but the Government is intentionally creating confusion and playing double game on this issue through media because they think that this way they might succeed in defaming the PPP by propagating the deal [...]
The long-awaited Charter of Democracy (CoD) was approved and signed by former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Mian Nawaz Sharif late on Sunday night after several hours of clause-by-clause discussions on the document by the enlarged negotiating teams of the PPP and the PML-N in London. – Text of the Charter of Democracy The following [...]
According to anti-globalization activists, current world economic order is only serving the elite minority and making the majority poorer just because the corporate globalization or free-market capitalist system is simply unable to allow the results of economic growth to trickle down to the general masses causing social as well as economic disparities universally uglier with [...]
Dr Susan George of Greenpeace says: “Acting globally has become a practical necessity in a world where we are acted upon globally, where decisions affecting our lives are taken at levels, far remote from ordinary democratic practices that no citizen has a hope of influencing them”. Since the early 70s, major changes have taken place [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
