The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against US President Barack Obama, demanding legal basis for America’s deadly drone attacks overseas.
The lawsuit requests essential information on the fatalities of drone strikes and other information essential for judging the legality of using armed drones to carry out targeted killings, the United Press International [...]
President Obama’s inaugural pledge to defeat Al Qaeda and Taliban appears in stark contrast to the ground realities in Afghanistan. Obama’s much hyped AF PAK policy is believed to have been practically castigated to history after multiple reviews. The US military’s assessment of the war in Afghanistan too paints a bleak picture. The Taliban today [...]
“The stages of history are replete with chants and choruses of the conquerors of old who came killing in pursuit of peace”. Martin Luther King
The attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas day and the “revelation” that al-Qaeda has regrouped and is planning more attacks from Yemen is generating renewed attention to [...]
President Barack Obama has finally announced his long-awaited new US strategy on Afghanistan after extensive consultations with his advisers: some wanted to increase 30,000 additional troops so that they could concentrate their effort in the south and southeast, in the provinces that border Pakistan, while others advocated at concentrating on the strongholds from where the [...]
It could not have been a mere coincidence that both George Bush Jr and President Obama chose the military setting of West Point to proclaim their new militarist strategic doctrines - one, an extensive global doctrine of pre-emption and rejection of deterrence, the other relating to Afghanistan. The scope of the two statements reflects the [...]
Al Qaeda spokesperson has claimed in a recently released video message that the recent flurry of suicide attacks in Pakistan is being managed by the United States’s intelligence agencies.
If the Al Qaeda is so concerned about the Pakistanis then why don’t in the hell they just lay off terrorism and start negotiations with the world? [...]
Any political analysis on Indo-Pakistan relations is like zodiac horoscope, most o which is prediction and the rest is prejudice. Within these limits, we can learn enough from the chain of events, to respect or share one another’s delusions. On the other hand, when Europeans study Indo-Pakistan reviews, they smile at our follies, for our [...]
Trying to discern in Obama’s address at Oslo the contours of a coherent foreign policy is likely to prove futile. For the elucidation of a strategic design was not the purpose. The aim was political – in two senses. The first, primary consideration was to create favorable impressions among the American public - especially the [...]
Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama administration.
Citing former employees of the firm and US intelligence agents, the New York Times reported Friday that Blackwater gunmen, [...]
