The recent strategic security pact between Afghanistan and India has, with immediate effect, defeated Pakistan Army’s past, current and future domestic, regional and international designs. The Pakistan Army has lost its power. To justify its extravagant existence in a poor country, Pakistan Army declared India its enemy. To generate cash through international extortion,...
Spokesmen from the government of Saudi Arabia assured the nation that the recent unrest in the oil-rich eastern province of Qatif has been put down and stability restored. The government also stated that a “foreign country” was behind the unrest, many interpreting this “foreign country” as Iran since the majority of the Shi’ite population...
Ahead of the October 7 anniversary of the day when United States, the United Kingdom and the Afghan United Front military forces started driving out the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan, at least 300 protesters peacefully gathered in the Afghan capital of Kabul chanting anti-NATO and anti-U.S. slogans while holding signs that read “NO OCCUPATION”, “WE DIE,...
After protests were renewed by thousands of people on the streets in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa to again pressure the currently absent President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in office for just over 32 years, negotiations were personally authorized by Saleh who is currently recovering from wounds sustained from an explosion at the presidential palace in Riyadh,...
In various parts of Yemen, thousands of people renewed protests on the streets to again pressure President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down from office and the government to quickly act on reforms concerning the ragged economic state of Yemen. When the Jasmine Revolution, or the Arab Spring, rippled across the North African and Middle Eastern world, civil uprisings in Yemen...
Turkey has fulfilled its promise of “remembering” the Gaza Flotilla Incident in May 2010 and particularly the victims of the actions of the Israeli commandos in the IDF’s (Israeli Defense Force) Operation Sky Winds against the human rights activists’ Gaza Flotilla that was bringing aid and other supplies through the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Turkey’s...
With a unanimous vote, the United Nations Security Council has extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon headed by the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL). 15 member countries of the United Nations Security Council voted to extend the peacekeeping to August 31st, 2012 after the previous mission mandate expired on August 31st, 2011. The U.N. Security...
After Gaddafi’s hold on Tripoli fell after thousands of the internationally-backed Libyan rebels (otherwise known as the National Liberation Army) swarmed into the capital that had been battered constantly by more than 7,000 NATO airstrikes, celebrations have been incessant in various parts of Libya and the world. However now that most of Gaddafi’s political...