By Anwaar Hussain
Chilcot Inquiry was set up by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to inquire into Iraq war covering a period from 2001–2009. The hearings are being held in public unless there are “compelling reasons” for witnesses to be heard in private. The inquiry started at the end of July 2009, after the return of most [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
Having observed international politics in general, and Pakistani politics in particular, over a long period of time, the scribe feels constrained to surmise that the phenomenon, weird as it may seem, works according to certain laws. Let us call these as the general Laws of Politics (Pakistani Politics in Particular) or LOP(PPP) in [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
Strange title, eh? Wait a bit please.
Hoh is the surname of a former Marine who fought in Iraq and became a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan and who on September 10 this year resigned in a high-profile protest of the Afghan war. In so doing, Matthew Hoh became the first ever [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
Listen up Government of Pakistan. If I were a Taliban advisor, this is what I would advise them;
First and foremost I would tell Hakimullah Mehsud, the Shadow of God, to raise the golden whip of religion a little higher and continue wielding it at that height flogging all and sundry every once in [...]

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 Bill Noxid
I wish I could say I was disappointed, but none of this is a surprise.  While the President continues his efforts to reach some kind of farcical “bipartisan” agreement with people who continue to call and pray for his death, the people who actually risked their lives to get him elected are [...]

By Bill Noxid
It’s a full time occupation trying to unravel the reasons Americans remain in the dark.  What seems ( to any intelligent outside observer ) like sheer stupidity and arrogance is in reality an almost inescapable indoctrination process that begins before you are born, and ends some time after your dead.  It is a [...]