A New Tack in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India -- Lashkar-e-Taiba, the presumed perpetrator of last month's Mumbai attacks, sprang up from the bloody insurgency against Indian rule in predominantly Muslim Kashmir. While the plight of Kashmir has galvanized Islamic radicalism across South Asia, the...

The Monster In The Mirror

We've forfeited the rights to our own tragedies. As the carnage in Mumbai raged on, day after horrible day, our 24-hour news channels informed us that we were watching "India's 9/11." And like actors in a Bollywood rip-off of an old Hollywood film, we're expected to play our...

Tackling terrorism: a new approach

What comes to light in the wake of the Mumbai attacks is that like the sundry other criminal mafias operating in nearly every corner of the world, the organizations sponsoring terror are structured -- and dangerously on the verge of becoming institutionalized. "Tackling...

Sanctifying Terrorists

Raven Gale   Lord Malloch-Brown a minister of the British government has delivered his verdict. The Bajrang Dal and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of India are not terrorist organizations and are therefore ‘kosher’ for travel and interaction in Britain....

Why Kashmir holds the key

Resolving the Kashmir dispute would help Pakistan to end its support for Islamist separatists implicated in the Mumbai attacks Muzamil Jaleel Within hours after the 9/11 attack, Pakistan made a U-turn on its Afghan policy, sided with the United States and became a...

Another quake jolts Pakistan

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale shook various parts of Pakistan early Monday (just 30 minutes ago), awakening people who ran out of houses in panic.There were no immediate reports of damage in the quake which hit at 4.20 a.m. local time. According to...

Outpost Afghanistan

Fatima Rizvi In the wake of the Mumbai attacks and India’s finger pointing at Pakistan on the basis of old information without any new evidence whatsoever Pakistan is facing a resurgence of militant activity in its western border area with Afghanistan. The so-called...

The World’s Most Dangerous Collaboration

By Zaheerul HassanSource: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/the-world-most-dangerous-collaboration/ CIA, RAW and Mossad cooperation in various pastures under the prevailing security environment might be termed as the world’s most dangerous collaboration of future...