Saeed Minhas Islamabad– As Red Mosque continues to haunt Musharraf on the floor of the House, claimants of his legacy continued to hatch another plan in the chambers of the prime minister to keep the President in the line of fire. Plans are afoot to ensure that President gets the nod required to keep him […]
Bangladeshi Ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrested, sent to sub-jail
Over a thousand law enforcers raid her residence at dawn; she is charged with extorting Tk 3 crore.The joint forces yesterday arrested Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina at her Dhanmondi residence in the city at around daybreak and later a court sent her to jail on charges of extortion. Hasina, also a former prime […]
Ghazi Rashid killed in Lal Mosque as operation continues
Saeed Minhas In the final phase of the operation silence, security forces have captured the Lal Mosque and its adjoinging seminary Jamia Hafsa by killing Maulana Ghazi Rashid, his mother, two nephews and lots of his comrades on Tuesday afternoon. More than 85 male students surrendered along with 27 female syudents and 22 minors througout […]
Suu Kyi’s 62nd birthday marked as Burmese Women’s Day
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi turned 62 on Tuesday while being under house arrest. Such a notable day that not only did hundreds of Suu Kyi’s supporters stand at National League for Democracy (NLD) party headquarters demanding her freedom, but this her fifth consecutive birthday spent under house detention also marked as “Burmese […]
Wrong ideology puts innocent Palestinians hostage
The conflict between Hamas and the Fatah Group of President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority seems to be on the brink of scaling back to its worst situation, knowing the mentality and ideology of the Hamas, now considered by western countries as a terrorist organization, whose aim is to erase Israel from the map, […]
Britain behind Gukurahundi massacres
A former Zimbabwean freedom fighter who, himself, was a victim of Gukurahundi says Britain and not South Africa was behind the 1980s massacres that left nearly 30 000 innocent civilians from Matabeleland and the Midlands dead. Douglas Moyo* says South Africa was just a front. Britain was the brains behind the massacres. All it […]