The Indian Prime minister Mr Singh who arrived in Washington USA as first state guest of Obama’s administration in an interview with CNN has questioned America’s wisdom in regarding Pakistan as a key ally in the war against extremists. PM Singh said: ‘Pakistan’s objectives in Afghanistan are not necessarily in harmony with American objectives.’ Having said that, who am I to judge whether the Pakistan government and the Pakistan army is moving to remove the Afghan Taliban?’ Yes it is true Pakistan army is not operating to remove the …

Pakistan army has launched offensive against the terrorists in the Waziristan area bordered with Afghanistan. Even before the attack was started, the terrorists started targeting the Pakistan army and other law enforcing agencies in Pakistan. Furthermore, there has been a number of suicidal attacks in different areas of Pakistan killing and injuring hundreds of people.
This is what Dawn’s editor has to say about Rehman Malik’s comment about the involvement of India in Balochistan:
Talking about Indian involvement in terrorists activities in Pakistan, the Interior Minister Rehman Malik has come down …

Former Indian External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh has said that Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a secular man, and that he had initially opposed the division of Bengal and Punjab. I personally don’t believe that Mr. Jinnah was a secular man. He was a religious person who believed in Islam and wanted a place for Muslims where they can live peacefully while practicing their religion freely.
Jaswant Singh said that a prominent magazine India Today got five eminent historians to determine who was responsible for the partition of India. According to …

This video shows the true face of Indians and their intentions about Pakistan. None of the country needs such kind of extremism. If nuclear bombs are ever used in the region, it won’t be just Pakistan, major part of India and neighboring countries will also be wiped off the earth. Is it not extremism?
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Indian Primeminister Monmohan Singh told reporters, “The people of India have spoken, and spoken with great clarity”. The victory over the opposition Hindu-nationalist-led alliance means the left-of-center Congress may find it easier to form a stable coalition with smaller parties and be less vulnerable to pressure on issues like economic reforms.
“Eventually the people of India know what’s good for them and they always make the right choice,” Sonia Gandhi, the head of the Congress party, told reporters. Congress party supporters carrying banners of star campaigners Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, …

“Women to Reclaim Public Space” Women’s Action Forum held a program of defiance and resistance at Karachi-Pakistan Press Club on 8th May 2009. Arundhati Roy was the closing speaker.
Taliban boy’s interview who asked the interviewer that government can ban the plastic shopping bags by making law then why can’t government of Pakistan ban women to not to come out of the houses? The point is that the plastic bag was made in a factory but so was the boy. He was made in a factory that is producing this kind …

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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 …

Indian Prime minister is coming out of his shell accused involvement of Pakistani agencies in the Mumbai attacks last year. The Indian official stated yesterday that there is no evidence of involvement of ISI in the attacks. However,  Mr. Singh has said while speaking at a conference, ”There is enough evidence to show that, given the sophistication and military precision of the attack, it must have had the support of some official agencies in Pakistan”.  If there is enough evidence then why do not provide it and just keep on playing blame …

The Monster in the Mirror
Arundhati Roy
How should those of us whose hearts have been sickened by the knowledge of all of this view the Mumbai attacks, and what are we to do about them?
There are those who point out that U.S. strategy has been successful inasmuch as the United States has not suffered a major attack on its home ground since 9/11. However, some would say that what America is suffering now is far worse.
If the idea behind the 9/11 terror attacks was to goad America into showing its true …