Biggest deal IAF may buy 189 jets for $20bn
ahmed sabirRajat Pandit The "mother" could well become the "granny" of all defence deals in the years ahead. India is likely to go in for another 63 fighters after delivery of…
Attacks show Taliban are not as weak as the US claims
Patrick Cockburn The killing of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the most powerful Afghan in the south of the country, will reinforce the feeling among Afghans that the Taliban can strike anywhere…
Kissinger blighted millions as U.S. jockeyed for position
Kevin Rafferty Henry Kissinger has distilled many words of wisdom from four millennia of Chinese civilization, and several centuries of Western diplomacy, including almost half a century of personal experience…
Raped Afghan women have no hope of justice
Most women in Afghanistan are unaware of their own legal rights, and lack judicial support when trying to defend them Noorjahan Akbar In December 2010, in a small house located…
A new nation is born
Ban Ki-Moon This Saturday, July 9, the Republic of South Sudan will join the community of nations. Foreign dignitaries will converge on its capital, Juba, to watch the new country…
Pakistan’s Deteriorating Society!
Bismah Mirza (B.B.A) (I.O.B.M) Pakistani society is on a deteriorating trend! Negativity and disbelief are dominate features of this society. Acceptance is fading away and difference of opinion is taken…
Industry analysis future outlook & Trend
Nashia Mirza In the developing world, the availability and cost of power can play a vital role in economic development and people's well-being. As countries become wealthier and their populations…
Israeli Agents in America
Kim Petersen When a state arises from the dispossession of an Indigenous people and when that state persists in the brutalization, murder, and humiliation of the Indigenous people, some vociferous…
Iran report has something for everyone
This is not a case like South Africa, Libya or North Korea all of which admitted the existence of their respective nuclear programmes before undertaking to scrap them. Whatever its…
Long live people’s resistance in Nandigram
As observed by Jiten Nandi, Shamik Sarkar, Md. Helaluddin, Subhapratim Roychowdhury, Anupam Das Adhikari and Amita Nandi on behalf of Manthan Samayiki, a bi-monthly Bengali little magazine from Kolkata, West…