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Anar Gul gestures to the body of her grandchild, who was allegedly killed by a US service member in Panjwai, a Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)  March 122, 2012 " The Nation" —  Iraq had its Haditha. Now, Afghanistan has its Panjwai. Burning babies—yes, it has come to this. Following routine bombings of wedding parties, …

It is time that our big brother India practises with its own minority of around 180 million Muslims especially Kashmiri Muslims, what it preaches to Sri Lanka on minority rights.   Time and again officials of the Indian government from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to other top officials have impressed upon the Sri Lankan government the need to find a …

Regime change in Syria is a strategic prize that outstrips Libya – which is why Saudi Arabia and the west are playing their part This summer a senior Saudi official told John Hannah, Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, that from the outset of the upheaval in Syria, the king has believed that regime change would be highly beneficial to Saudi interests: "The …

While Pakistan is restructuring its foreign policy that had been tailor made to suit American interests only, the US is striving to normalize Pak-US relations but there will be no more business as usual. Process of peace with Pakistani Taliban should be given a push to end the self-destructive war on terror. WHEN the US decided to invade Afghanistan and …

Taking full advantage of limitless freedom of action given by Gen Musharraf, CIA and FBI cultivated militant and criminal groups to fight Pak security forces. As many as 7000 undesirable CIA agents under different guises managed to slip in and they gave rise to drone attacks, suicide bombings and terrorist attacks. WAR on terror initiated by USA was a ruse …

   A group of political, diplomatic and military leaders from the Asia-Pacific region – representing an area with the largest number of nuclear weapons states – is launching a campaign to help abolish the world's most destructive weapons, beginning in their own backyard. The convenor of the group, former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, said Monday, "The quest to eliminate …