We hear about nuclear programm of Iran and how much danger it posses to the world. How much is the truth in it and is Iran producing any nuclear weapons?  Eric Magnolis has an interesting analysis of the situation.  The article was published in Toronto Sun.
By ERIC MARGOLIS
As the U.S. economy sank ever lower, a huge brouhaha erupted this week over claims that Iran might have nuclear weapons.
The new CIA director, Leon Panetta, said “there is no question, they (Iran) are seeking that capability.” The Pentagon chief, Admiral Mike Mullen, …

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist, who allegedly ‘sold’ nuclear secerets to Iran, Libya and North Korea was released from house arrest in February. US has been asking for access to A. Q Khan for investigating his alleged involvement in nuclear trading to ‘axes of evil’. 
Now US lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation aiming to cut off military aid to Pakistan unless US officials are able to question alleged nuclear proliferator Abdul Qadeer Khan.
Member Democratic Party Jane Harman who prepared the bill said Dr. AQ Khan can proliferate nuclear warheads to …

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Government of Pakistan is claiming that police is not beating or misstreating political activists. However, the pictures show something different. For example see the picture above or in other post “Political freedom in Pakistan”.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pakistan police is arresting a political activist to stop the nationwide protest against the government. It is evident that politicians have not learnt any lesson from past and heading towards a disaster once again.

According the American Religious Identification Survey 2008 released by Trinity College reveals that the U. S. population continues to show signs of becoming less religious, with one out of every five Americans failing to indicate a religious identity in 2008.
The main highlights of the study are:

Baptists, who constitute the largest non-Catholic Christian tradition, have increased their numbers by two million since 2001, but continue to decline as a proportion of the population.

Mormons have increased in numbers enough to hold their own proportionally, at 1.4 percent of the population.
The Muslim proportion …

Major Sebastian Morley, former commander of Special Air Service troops in Afghanistan spoke for the first time after he resigned in protest in late 2008 over the use of lightly armoured Land Rovers in war zones. He said:
The operations that we are conducting are so worthless. We hold tiny areas of ground in Helmand and we are kidding ourselves if we think our influence goes beyond 500 metres (yards) of our security bases.  It’s just crazy to think we hold that ground or have any influence on what goes on beyond the …

More than 100,000 young women were killed in fires in India in a single year, and many of those deaths were tied to domestic abuse. Young Indian women are more than three times as likely to be killed by fire as their male compatriots, according to an article published on the Web site of the British medical journal, The Lancet. The victims largely fell within a 15 to 34-year age group.
Domestic abuse is a serious problem in India. Women are sometimes killed in disputes over dowries; often in such disputes …

Intelligence and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officers have arrested Touhidul Alam following a raid in the capital. He is the prime accused in the events at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters last week according to RAB spokesman M. Kamruzzaman.
The government of Bangladesh  deployed soldiers across the country to hunt for border guards who fled after a bloody mutiny left at least 148 people dead or missing.  Home Minister Shahara Khatun said the soldiers will remain in the field “as long as necessary’’ as they help police and local authorities search for …

The Pakistan government has signed a deal with the pro taliban Maulana Sufi Mohammad to enforce Islamic laws in a northwestern region. The deal followed talks between ministers in the troubled North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and a local militant leader, Sufi Mohammad, on formalising the implementation of Islamic law. The deal will cover Pakistan’s Malakand area, one of the districts of NWFP, which includes the Swat valley, and home to around three million of the estimated 20 million people who live in the northwest province.
Swat was a jewel in the …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Friday declared nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan a free man, five years after he was effectively put under house arrest for allegedly operating a proliferation network. The chief justice of the IHC, Sardar Mohammad Aslam, made the decision after a closed session with lawyers for the government and Dr Khan — revered by many Pakistanis as the father of the country’s atomic bomb. ‘The petitioner is declared a free citizen and writ petition is disposed of,’ said a written order issued by the court.
Dr …