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Posts Tagged ‘Gaza’

Control the geography, control the people

By Justin Podur • Nov 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Just over a month ago (Oct 14/09) Palestinian geographer and director of the “Center for Global Consciousness” Saed Abu-Hijleh spoke at the University of Toronto. Traveling to the North American continent was no escape: Canadian Border services had put him through the ringer at Pearson airport, the border agent asking him whether he would “say [...]



Pilot-less Cruel Drones Under Attack

By Swaraaj Chauhan • Jul 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Britain’s top judge has expressed concern about the use of pilot-less drones as weapons of war. His comments come at a time when there is a growing international concern about the danger these pose to the civilians.
Drones have become an important weapon against the Taliban in the remote mountainous borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports [...]



Torture on Students

By M Mirza • Feb 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Swat or Gaza?

By Mohsin Sehgal • Feb 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I have just returned home from office and I am fuming from toe to head. At every signal where I stopped I saw banners upon banners calling names to Israel and proclaiming solidarity with the people of Gaza. Hoardings and roadsides walls are littered with slogans like ‘ Israel ka jo yar hai, ghaddar hai [...]



Bravo, Tayyib Erdogan

By Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi • Feb 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics

It was bravo of Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a Muslim country leader to have walked out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,  on 29 January, in retaliation for not allowing him sufficiently  by the moderator to answer to the speech of Israeli President Shimon Peres.   [...]



ICDDR,B’s Military Connection with Israel

By Isha Khan • Jan 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics

On 27 December 2008, Israel launched a barbaric attack with highly sophisticated weapons, largely supplied by USA, on the civilian population of Gaza under the pretext of fighting Hamas, an organization democratically elected to the parliament by the majority of the Palestinian people. In densely populated Gaza, an all out war against Hamas is, in [...]



‘By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt do War’

By A Khokar • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)

Former Mossad intelligence officer Victor John Ostrovsky in his two extraordinary non-fiction books; ‘By Way of Deception’ and ‘The Other Side of Deception’; reveals and goes far deeper into the Mossad’s frightening and often ruthless covert activities. He describes, how Mossad through the use of deception, duped the Americans into bombing Libya. The operation which [...]



Let’s not have a false sense of security

By Justin Podur • Jan 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Numerous analysts have said that “Israel will not allow a full-blown humanitarian crisis in Gaza”. First of all, I am not sure how they would define a “full-blown” crisis. Can the current crisis reach “half-blown” status at least? The place is rubble. Sanitation, electricity, and drinking water facilities are destroyed. Hospitals are destroyed. The systems [...]



Israel arrotcities, westren masses and muslim world

By Anwar Jalal • Jan 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

The reaction against Israel  brutal  bombardments on hapless Palestinian muslims among the  masses of western and non muslim world are  greater compared  to the one  in muslim umma  ( ironically most of muslim countries are showing less or no disquiet ) Large  protest demonstrations have been  held  across the Europe as well as in several [...]



Deliberate Acquiescence to Israeli Terrorism

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Even as we in Pakistan are confronted with multiple developments and issues, the slaughter of innocent Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of a murderous Zionist state has focused our emotions of anger, helplessness and frustration alongside similarly displayed emotions across the civil societies of the world. For the Muslims in particular the attempted genocide [...]