By Anas Abbas
Aafia Siddiqui was finally convicted on 4th February 2010 for trying to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan.  She is now expected to face a maximum of 60 years in prison.
Below is a study that will analyze some important questions that are related to Aafia Siddiqui’s case.  The questions are:
What happened to Aafia and [...]

by Farhat Taj
There is a deep abyss between the perceptions of the people of Waziristan, the most drone-hit area and the wider Pakistani society on the other side of the River Indus. For the latter, the US drone attacks on Waziristan are a violation of Pakistani’s sovereignty. Politicians, religious leaders, media analysts and anchorpersons express [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
Some have romanticized them, others have idolized them, and yet others have abhorred them. All have feared them, however. Over the years, the Taliban have acquired an image of mysterious allure and danger, until the truth about them now hardly matters.
Here is the situation.
A leading religious politician, who is also a sitting partner [...]

A hellhole where torture scandals shook the world’s trust in US justice
By Tim Reid
On January 11, 2002, a giant C141 military transport aircraft landed at the US military base in Guantánamo Bay after an 8,000-mile journey from Kandahar, in Afghanistan – a trip during which the 20 hooded, shackled prisoners inside had not been allowed [...]

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 [...]

The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and Its Fortune by Steve Coll  
By Robert Vitalis*
Steve Coll’s book tells two stories: a big one about how the bin Laden family cashed in on the oil bonanza in Saudi Arabia, and a smaller one about Osama’s role in the family business before he turned [...]

From Pravda. Ru
In a recent article for the Miami Herald, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts discussed two “still-classified” government memos that not only revealed how the United States government, under George W. Bush, authorized and engaged in the use of torture, but also how Bush himself blatantly lied to the American people about this [...]