WASHINGTON: The attack on a police academy in Lahore indicates that religious terrorism, once confined to Pakistan’s tribal belt, now threatens political stability nationwide, The Washington Post observed on Tuesday.
‘The precisely orchestrated assault … was also a likely sign that militant groups in Punjab, once tolerated and even supported by …
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif denied in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday that he has had links with religious hardliners.
He said the accusations were propaganda unleashed by General Pervez Musharraf, who deposed him in a coup in 1999.
Although members of the PML-N sometimes characterise the war …
It should be clear by now that we are at war with ourselves as the enemy within grows more audacious by the day. Yet there are educated people in this country who continue to blame American foreign policy and the ever-potent ‘foreign hand’ for the wave of terrorism sweeping the …
“Acopio,” the system that organizes the purchase and distribution of about 90% of Cuba’s agricultural output, will no longer be overseen by Cuba’s agriculture ministry but by the domestic trade ministry. A brief report on state-run television explained that by reassigning this duty, the agriculture ministry will …
The State Department’s blog Dipnote is one of my favorite blogs and this week they highlighted U.S. efforts to combat Somali piracy. The U.S. helped organize and now …
As we discuss growing multilateral alliances, and as we report on Russia’s declining economy and rising geopolitical ambitions, we also can continue to note Moscow’s attempts to forge partnerships to ensure its energy dominance whilst staving off more economic attrition. Today, Russian President Dimitry Medvedev …
“In Pikalevo, something unusual for modern Russia is happening: the people are taking a stand against the government and its economic policies, blaming them as much as the factory-owners for their plight”.
So states today’s BBC report by Richard Galpin, which chronicles recent industrial unrest stemming from the …
The World Bank released a grim report on Russia’s economy. The Bank predicts a contraction of 4.5 percent this year and warns that the financial crisis could push nearly six million Russians into poverty. Despite worries (arguably small) of civil unrest due …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Setton Farms of California, which grows pistachio nuts for Kraft Foods, Inc., has announced a recall of its crop from the previous year after finding salmonella contamination in tested batches. There have been reported cases of illness related to the contamination …
Following UN Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf’s appeal to G-20 leaders to discuss agricultural initiatives for alleviating the global food crisis while meeting in London this week, the Fairtrade Foundation has repeated that call and said a fresh approach to trade was …
Henry Waxman, the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Ed Markey, chair of the Energy and Environment subcommittee, have just released a “discussion draft” of a comprehensive clean energy and climate change bill. The legislation is titled “The American Clean Energy and …
As the world’s leaders – representing over 85 percent of the global economy – gather in London, the international community waits to see if the G20 summit can achieve results and meet high expectations (arguably too high for a one-day event).
Two weeks ago, Brazil, Russia, India and China …
The small African island nation of Seychelles has been forced to make a tough choice to improve its food security. The government announced that it will abandon a planned hotel project in order to preserve the land for growing food. Seychelles imports a large amount of its …
New Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke with The Atlantic on his first day in office, declaring the need for the United States to prevent a nuclear Iran. Netanyahu did not reject President Barack Obama’s attempts to use diplomacy with Iran, instead focusing on the eventual outcome of …
The other night I spent the evening screening two documentaries on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which were focused on the extensive use of rape as a weapon of war in the countries long going conflict. The evening was centered around one of the DRC’s woman’s activists,
