Pakistan school massacre and the evils of Islamic extremism
The latest Islamic attack on a school in Pakistan is a reminder that these terrorists have no limits when it comes to inflicting violence on the innocent and the vulnerable. They must be met with force, whether in Pakistan, Iraq or Britain.
- 16 December 2014
New nexus of state failure and terrorism floods Pakistan
Amid disastrous flooding, militants are increasingly taking control in several new parts of Pakistan by capitalizing on residents' hostility towards an arrogant, incompetent and corrupt government. Welcome to the failed-state/terrorism nexus
- 22 September 2014
Pakistani Islamists shooting polio vaccine medics as CIA and Jewish stooges
Plainly news that you have read many times in mainsream media... OK, back to reality. Pakistani kids dying of Polio as vaccinators get shot as CIA and Jewish stooges
- 10 February 2014
Leading Pakistani academic says "Cabal" controlled US and UK put microchips in "our brains"
The Pakistani intelligentsia has a few surprises for the country's Western allies. The vice-chancellor of Punjab University, and former Fulbright Fellow, is not hesitant about "Cabals"
- 22 September 2013
So much for the apartheid Israel that Arab nations won't deal with...
Israel has exported security equipment over the past five years to Pakistan and four Arab countries, Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted a British government report as saying
- 13 June 2013
Fighter jets escort Pakistani plane in British airspace
An RAF Typhoon jet has been scrambled to investigate an incident involving a Pakistani International Airlines plane in UK airspace.
- 24 May 2013
Pakistan: Real change or plus ça change?
Good news is rarely reported from Pakistan - but, over this past weekend, the country did reach a milestone
- 14 May 2013
Election season in Pakistan
That Pakistan is having successive elections is a good a thing. But, regardless of the outcome of the forthcoming election, not much will change there as far as the key issues go
- 30 April 2013
Pakistani elite must pay more in tax to justify UK aid spending, say British MPs
Members of the Britain's International Development Select Committee have said UK aid should be linked to Pakistani tax rises
- 4 April 2013
Nearly 40 percent of Pakistani youths want Shariah law
A survey carried out by the British Council has revealed that nearly 40 percent of Pakistani youths think Shariah law is the best system for the country
- 3 April 2013
Pakistan's human rights problem
Raheel Raza writes from the UNHRC in Geneva, where the country on most people's lips is Pakistan
- 13 March 2013
Muslim mob burns Christian homes in Pakistan
Until Pakistan's politicians are prepared to speak out against the country's outmoded blasphemy laws, it will continue its slow descent back to the middle ages
- 11 March 2013
Exposing the UN's dirty little secrets
A gathering of the tortured in Geneva shames the UN Human Rights Council by giving victims not perpetrators a platform to tell their story
- 24 February 2013
Lessons from the recent Birmingham terrorist plot
Britain, with it's culture of free-speech and anti-establishment activism, is a fertile breeding ground for extremism. It will remain so until we develop a sense of national cohesion
- 22 February 2013
The war against Valentine's Day in South Asia
The fact that people prioritise campaigning against Valentine's Day in a part of the world with so many problems is absurd and disturbing
- 14 February 2013
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