On both sides of the border there are men who think that a solitary major crisis, a single lucky break of violence will be sufficient to usurp all the hopes, all the dreams of the subcontinent’s citizenry of ever coming together as one people, even if divided by borders.
By Anwaar Hussain
Let us state the [...]

TS Note: On this day, in 2007, the most momentous political assassination of our time claimed the life of Benazir Bhutto and plunged a nation into mourning. The article below was written in the aftermath of that ominous event. Here it is once again on her first death anniversary.
Whoever killed her, snuffed out the last [...]

By Irfan Hussain
FEW things bring patriotism rushing to the surface as being under attack. For India, the Nov 26 assault on Mumbai was very real.
But for millions of Pakistanis, the accusation that their country was the base for this act of terrorism was an attack as well. For the last three weeks, they have endured [...]

By Hans Vogel from english.pravda.ru
The thruth will set you free, the truth is simple and what is simple tends to be beautiful and attractive. Yet neither individuals nor societies can function without bending the truth. As matter of fact, many conventions and accepted ideas are based on fiction or and expressed as myths, but that [...]

By Beth Fouhy and Sharon Theimer  AP Dec 18
Former President Bill Clinton laid out a list of big-ticket donors to his foundation Thursday that is heavy with foreign governments and business interests sure to have a stake in the policies that Hillary Rodham Clinton carries out as secretary of state.
Saudi Arabia and other foreign [...]

By Jacques Lévesque
Vladimir Putin was the first head of a non-Muslim majority state to speak at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, a gathering of 57 Muslim states, in October 2003. That was a political and diplomatic feat, especially since Russia was waging a long-running war in Chechnya at the time. Putin stressed that [...]

By Irfan Husain
IF you do a Google search with ‘CIA + RAW + Mossad + Mumbai attacks’ as your parameters, you will get about 51,200 results.
So clearly, there are thousands out there who have developed elaborate conspiracy theories to explain who was behind the recent terrorist atrocity in Mumbai. Some of these theories have even [...]