Photos of Mutilated Afghan girl Aisha Before and After.

One is Time Magazine Cover for Thursday, Jul. 29, 2010 while other is from BBC News. I just wonder how many of such abuses are never reported for fear of reprisal. Some minor some as severe or even worse than this....

7 US troops killed in Afghanistan, August death toll reaches 62

The Afghan peace mission is costing heavily to US forces. In latest killing seven brave soldiers lost their lives on Sunday fighting the insurgents in Northern and Eastern province of Afghanistan. Meanwhile forces found the bodies of five campigners on Sunday for the female...

Canadian soldiers help canine refugees

Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan found relief from the horrors of war in the form of puppies destined to a life of misery. "It may be against regs, but sometimes you can’t help falling for a furry...

NEEDED FOR PAKISTANI AND AMERICAN RELATIONS---A MARRIAGE...

Spearhead Analysis"Islamabad: For more than sixty years, the US-Pakistani relationship has veered between despair and euphoria. In a very social sense, the two states could be characterized as an aging married couple occupying very distant parts of a large, deteriorating...

Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois: Canadian soldiers best interest

By Barry O'Regan The ongoing battle between the Conservative government by the opposition leaders of the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois over Afghan detainees rights makes many wonder whose interests are best...

Afghan election shows country moving in right direction: Stockwel

Barry Artiste Op/EdPerhaps this is also attributed to the ceasement of Suicide Bombers taking their own Lives in order to go to Paradise and Enjoy the Fruits of 100 virgins. Apparently a Photo of British Singist...

Private Security Agency Perverts in Afghanistan Kills USA Image!

 The spring of 2006 I was on my third assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Providing professional development training for the Afghan men and women employed by the Department of State, I returned to a large newly built Embassy – one of the largest in the world. Embassy...

Sacrificing innocents to protect their killers: Gitmo

Barry Artiste Op/Ed When those (Terrorists) do not play by international military rules by using women and children as human shields, in order to prey on our humane sensibilities in order to kill us, deserve no quarter from legitimate Military Forces under the Geneva...

Should the left call for Taliban victory?

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Well certainly not a big surprise as I have always maintained all along in my Op.Eds on Now Public, the Left Wing have finally come out and said it, that the Left Wing will forego Afghan women...

Gen Musharraf Trial: Pakistan Parliament Sovereignty in Question

Last week was some how overshadowed by the magnitude of confrontation witnessed in the National Assembly, after nearly a break of one decade. Where Ch Nisar and Haider Abbas were seen holding on to each other by the horns evidently, in reality the 342 member parliament has...

Another shameful move by the evil called Taliban

You know what, today a 5 year old nephew of mine made me silent. I was just checking out my facebook a/c, he came and stood next to me as usual, I as usual started hugging him and then to my amazement he remarked, "I...

2 attacks every week in Pak, threatens Taliban

The Taliban have threatened that they would "carry out two bombings a week within Pakistan" in retaliation to the US drone attacks. Hakimullah Mehsud, a deputy to Baitullah Mehsud who is the leader of the...

Political gain leaves Afghan women behind

Barry Artiste Op/EdBoy, it is pretty scary when the Taliban look to Canada for ideas, such as polygamy, religious freedoms, and Yes, a Liberal Province of Ontario were seriously considering Sharia Law in Canada.  Certainly when Ethnic Votes can ensure either Political...

Teenaged girl flogged by Taliban in Pakistan

A 17-year-old screaming, burqa-clad girl was whipped by Taliban fighters in Pakistan's restive Swat Valley for coming "out of her house with another guy who was not her husband", a two-minute video shot through a...

India’s juggernaut has lost its way

Indians have worked hard in recent years to cultivate their country’s image as a thrusting young Asian superpower on the up and up. But the aspiration to be more millionaire than slumdog appears badly served by an ossified political system that is offering the same old...

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