The Americans are now builing a wall around southern parts of Sadr city, the Shia dominated area of Baghdad. The idea is to prevent more Shia fighters of the Mahdi army from entering the area. After the Iraqi governemnt’s recent offensive...

The crisis in Zimbabwe is deepening. The Mugabe governemnt is not allowing the declaration of presidential election results because it is rumoured that he is trailing behind MDC leader, Tsvangirai. What is adding fuel to the fire is that China has...

The US government is trumpeting the fact that violence is going down in Iraq; that Bush’s ’surge’ has worked. The Iraqi government is boasting that the situation in the country has improved so much that those Iraqis who had fled from...

The United States is considered as the center of gravity as far human rights are concerned, but there are many stories that tarnish that sparkling white reputation. One of them is the way it deals with citizens from neighbouring Mexico who try to enter...

The Pakistani military claims it has re-captured a number of towns held by Islamic fighters of cleric Fazlullah, but the job is far from over. The Swat valley rebellion is the first open challenge against Islamabad’s rule in the tribal areas....

The tribal areas of Pakistan (FATA) are turning out to be the biggest headache for both the US and the fledgling Pakistan government. Experts have been pointing out that the area is slipping out of the hands of Islamabad. Musharraf had tried sending in...

Turkey is being pulled in two opposite directions. The ruling AKP wants it go on to become a liberal Islamic country. The powerful army, judiciary and bureaucracy wants that Turkey continues following the path shown by Kemal Ataturk. They distrust the...

Steve Guttenberg might have delighted us with his flicks like Police Academy and Three Men and a Baby, but there is no doubt that he is kinky. He was jogging yesterday through the Upper West Side, when he noticed paparazzi clicking away at him. He...

As far the tribal areas problem in Pakistan is concerned, the arrival of a democratic government at Islamabad seems to have made no difference. The fact is the politicians are so busy arguing over the removal of Musharraf and the re-instatement of...

A west-sponsored UN Security Council resolution against the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe has died pre-maturely after Russia and China vetoed it. Russia said that the resolution would have meant interference in internal matters of Zimbabwe. It has...