By Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal One of the greatest farces played out during Musharraf’s dictatorship was that of higher education. Soon after his coup, Musharraf endowed the Higher Education Commission with powers which were similar to his own dictatorial powers in another realm. HEC became his darling not because he knew anything about higher education, science [...]
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NATO’s Naked Aggression Against Pakistan And The Hegemonic Israeli-Indo-American Strategy Behind It By Martin Iqbal and Jonathan Azaziah NATO's Bloody Attack On Pakistan: The Motive In the early morning of Saturday 26 November two NATO Apache helicopters, an AC-130 gunship, and a number of fighter jets perpetrated a sustained and deadly attack on two Pakistani [...]
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Desecration of dead bodies by US soldiers in Afghanistan By S. M. Hali Just when it appeared the US was getting a hold over the Afghan conundrum (mostly of its own making), by agreeing to hold a dialogue with the Taliban and permitting them to establish a political office in Doha, the release of an [...]
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Shedding Light on the Shadow Banking System By Ellen Brown The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19th that the Obama Administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state attorneys general to agree to a settlement with five major banks in the “robo-signing” scandal. The scandal involves employees signing names not their own, under [...]
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Emerging piety power paradigm. By Dr Ghayur Ayub The Islamic Revolution in Iran marks it's 33rd anniversary this year. Despite facing strong opposing forces that any such revolution faces in its evolutionary phases it not only survived but thrived. The question emerges as to what constituted the mosaic of the revolution which gave it [...]
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Deceptive, Dubious and Dishonest Origins of Corporate Personhood
Posted on 26. Jan, 2012 by Len Hart.
By Len Hart The origins of 'corporate personhood' are dubious, suspicious! 'Corporate personhood' derived from an informal note from a CLERK: "The defendant Corporations are persons within the intent of the clause in section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which forbids a State to deny to any person [...]
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Mr. Mansoor Ijaz is a US citizen and quite rightly loyal to his country and close friend of Israel. It is these Israeli connections which late Benazir Bhutto, Asif Zardari and Hussain Haqqani have/had used or wanted to use. By Dr Shahid Qureshi One must be wondering who Mansoor Ijaz is and why is he [...]
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Men Who Fell From the Sky
Posted on 25. Jan, 2012 by Dr Haider Mehdi.
NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi “The mad-man committed suicide, the hero offered himself up to martyrdom in the name of a cause, but both would die, and the embittered would spend many nights and days remarking on the absurdity and glory of both.” From a Novelist of an International Bestseller [...]
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The reprehensible drone attacks
Posted on 25. Jan, 2012 by S M Hali.
By S. M. Hali The reprehensible drone attacks in Pakistan commenced in 2004, nearly three years after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan. They have been conducted by the Special Activities Division of CIA. The question of the drone attacks targeting terrorists in Pakistan’s Wild West, the tribal areas is rather complex. To date 285 drone [...]
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NATO attack on Salala posts
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by Asif H Raja.
A Critical appraisal of ignoble NATO attack on Salala posts By Brig Asif Haroon Raja It will be recalled that in order to multiply pressure on Pakistan, western border was deliberately heated up by strategic partners sitting in Kabul. Between May and September 2011, tens of deadly raids had been conducted by Waliur [...]
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