By Anwaar Hussain
Way up on the shadowy ladder in the dark world of spooks comes the name of Mossad.
Responsible mainly for intelligence collection and covert operations, including paramilitary activities, it is one of the three institutions in the Israeli Intelligence Community. The other two are known as Aman and Shin Bet  tasked for military intelligence [...]

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 [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
After crawling out of the woodwork where they hibernated for decades, the ex-spooks of Inter Services Intelligence are singing like canaries on the national media. In a blizzard of accusations and counter-accusations, ranging from secret funds used to prop up political alliances to brazen smear campaigns against political leaders, they are revealing mind [...]

By Adil Zareef
PAKISTAN‘S interior adviser has announced a crisp new strategy for Swat, the details of which have not been divulged, although it was mentioned that Al Qaeda, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Tanzeem-i-Islami and the Tora Bora and Qari Mushtaq groups needed to be tackled. Fortunately, it has dawned on the authorities that the militants’ objective is [...]

By David Cole
The story of America’s descent into torture in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has been told now by many writers. Mark Danner, Jane Mayer, and Ron Suskind have written brilliant expositions of the facts, showing how the drive to prevent the next attack led the administration’s highest [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]