By Anwaar Hussain With Pakistan’s Supreme Court striking down the amnesty granted to the hyenas, the hunt for this carnivore in the Indus valley begins. Tracking skills and techniques have suddenly become very important to locate the animal, identify his spoor and follow his filth trail to his hiding place. This requires skill, knowledge and [...]

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 [...]

The Hippasus Blog The Gaza Strip  sits inside a tiny box some 25 miles long and, for the most part, less than five miles wide. At its widest it is well under eight miles wide. It is bounded to the west by the Mediterranean’s most miserable beaches. To the south-west is a seven-mile border with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]