Users' groups must go to bat for their users

The traditional users' group has largely been a semi-informal, unstructured gathering of users of some particular technological or electronic development, particularly those developments which are computer-based or oriented. The earliest users' groups, and many current users'...

Pakistan Army: (Professional) Men at their best

It would be an undermining of facts if I start praising Pakistan Army (PA) without accounting for their mistakes that they did make in the last 61 years. It's true that PA's always indulging into the Pakistan's...

Foreign spy agencies backing 15,000 militants: Pakistani official

The governor of Pakistan’s troubled North West Frontier Province, who also looks after affairs of the militancy-plagued Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), disclosed Friday that there are around 15,000 militants in the tribal areas who are persistently being...

New Year gift from US: Drone attack leaves 4 dead in Pakistan

As the people around the world were wishing Happy New Year to their friends, the US administration, which claims to be a friend of Pakistani rulers, gave a bloody New Year gift to people of Pakistan.Two CIA-operated drones Thursday attacked Karikot village in South Waziristan...

Update: 10 perish in Pakistan funeral procession blast

At least 10 persons were killed and 25 others injured when a bomb ripped through a funeral procession in Dera Ismail Khan city of Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on Friday. Initially it was reported that six persons were killed in the blast. NWFP...

2,700 foreigners arrested for militancy in Pakistan so far

"Law enforcing agencies in Pakistan have so far arrested more than 2,700 foreigners for their suspected links with Al-Qaeda or other militant organisations in Pakistan or Afghanistan..In an interview Sunday World Prisoners Relief Commission of Pakistan Chairman Javed Paracha...

Death penalty for cyber terror in Pakistan

"Causing death through “cyber terrorism” will be punishable by death in Pakistan, according to a decree issued by President Asif Ali Zardari yesterday. The Prevention of Electronic Crimes law will be applicable to anyone who commits a crime detrimental to national...

Britain doubles aid to Pakistan

After US, Britain has decided to increase the foregin aid to Pakistan but this time they are going to ask them how to spend it. " Britain is substantially increasing its aid to Pakistan and outlining a new strategy for how it is spent. International Development Minister...

Bhutto under `virtual house arrest` - spokeswoman

"A senior police official said an order placing Bhutto under house arrest had been prepared. Bhutto party spokeswoman, Sherry Rehman, said although Bhutto was not officially under house arrest police were blocking all movement in and out. "It's virtual house arrest," she was...

Bhutto vows "long march" unless Musharraf backs down

Rather than cooling down, things seem to be heating up in Pakistan. Several European countries have suspended aid to the country and others are condeming the suspending of the consitution."Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto threatened on Wednesday to lead a mass...

Lebanese Troops Battle Militants: Analysis

At least 70 people have been killed in two days of raging violence at the Nahr Al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli in Lebanon. The second day of violence has many experts saying that this is the worst...

The Rise of Migrant Worker Militancy

"Testifying before the Senate immigration hearings in early July, Mayor Michael Bloomberg affirmed that undocumented immigrants have become indispensable to the economy of New York City: "Although they broke the...

Lebanon: A Critical Battle for New Middle East

"Using the July 12 capture of two Israeli soldiers -- whose unit had apparently crossed the Israeli border into Lebanon -- as a pretext, the Bush administration quickly sprung into action: imagining yet a new Middle East, where democracy and freedom reigns over militancy and...

Jordan King Urges War Against Militancy (AP)

AP - Jordan's King Abdullah II appointed a new prime minister Thursday and urged him to launch an all-out war against Islamic militancy in the wake of the deadly triple hotel bombings earlier this month.

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