Dancing with the devil: Pakistan

How do you conduct sensitive diplomacy in a democracy like the USA? Answer is let it all hang out, apparently. The obvious contradictions in US foreign policy are apparent everywhere. We claimed we were against...

Drone attack flurry appropriate

Pursuing al Qaeda and family of terrorists is an appropriate mission for CIA’s paramilitary and US military. The USA is well equipped with advanced technology and should use everything at its disposal to hit and wipe out terrorist leaders and their forces. The fact that...

Securing the nation and implementing foreign policy

The lines tend to blur these days when you consider securing the nation and implementing foreign policy. It has always been so, though events tend to place more or less emphasis on these different elements along...

400 houses torched as ethnic tension brews up between Mizo & Brus

Ethnic tension has spiraled up in India’s North-Eastern state of Mizoram after a Mizo youth named Zarzokima, aged 18, was murdered by the by militants belonging to the Bru National Army. Since then suspected...

In Colombia, Rape Now Being Prosecuted as Weapon of War

Columbia is taking steps to prosecute those who use rape as a weapon of war.  Rape of women has been used as a tool of military for as long as history has been written and most probably before.  Force...

Militants take 71 Pakistani security personnel hostage in Buner

Militants have taken at least 71 Pakistani police and paramilitary security agency personnel hostage in Buner district of troubled North West Frontier Province (NWFP) after invited them to a mosque for talks, as the Pakistani security forces backed by jetfighters and...

Bangladesh troop mutinies break out beyond Dhaka

The bloody mutiny by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) soldiers in the capital Dhaka has spread outside the city even though they had laid their arms at their headquarters. Police chiefs in six border districts have told...

In Colombia, paramilitary groups still spreading terror

The following article at LA Times, recounts the sad stories known to many Colombians and South America citizens. The paramilitary groups are still spreading violence and causing displacement to neighbouring...

Deadly blasts hit Baghdad

BAGHDAD — Three or more explosions Monday ripped through a busy shopping district in northern Baghdad's Adhamiyah neighborhood, killing at least 28 people and wounding at least 68.North of Baghdad in Baqouba, a...

Suicide car-bomber kills 8 Pakisani soldiers

THERE IS NO RESPITE FOR PAKISTAN..........." WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up at a Pakistani paramilitary checkpost in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Sunday, killing eight soldiers, the military said. The suicide...

3 army colonels fired in Colombia for killings

" BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's army chief fired three colonels on Friday in the case of 11 men who disappeared from a Bogota suburb and were found dead months later in a war zone hundreds of miles away. It...

Troops sent to quell tribal clashes in India's Assam

" India's northeastern Assam state deployed paramilitary troops Monday to quell clashes between Muslim migrants and tribal groups that have left almost 50 people dead. Some 100,000 people have been forced to...

30 militants killed in northwest Pakistan

In an intensified battle against suspected militants American forces have  killed 32 people, including three women.  The Sunday death toll resulted from the latest round of a military offensive in the insurgent-infested Bajur tribal region, which borders...

Some 25,000 people disappear in Colombia over 20 years

Columbia suffers from drug related violence and it causes killing of hundreds of innocent citizens. Deep violence has been brought by drugs trade and it also led to a virtual civil war and widespread...

Venezuela captures politician wanted in Colombia

Colombian Senator Alvaro Araujo Noguera was detaineed in oppostion State of Zulia, Western Venezuela. The Chavez administration is expected to extradite him to Bogotá shortly. Araujo has been running from...

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