Asia

Asia Accounts for World’s Five Largest Arms Buyers By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19, 2012 (IPS) – China, India and South Korea – three of the most vibrant economies in Asia – are also beefing up their military arsenals with new weapons systems from the United States, Russia, Germany, France and UK. According to the latest figures released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the world's five largest arms …

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The Kandahar Massacre By M A Niazi

Washington’s dirty little secret is out!  Pakistanis were not very surprised when an American soldier ran amuck in Kandahar and shot up 16 Afghan civilians, which came hot on the heels of another incident of American callousness in Afghanistan, i.e. the burning of copies of Holy Quran at the Bagram Airbase. Just as Pakistan had experienced the Raymond Davis affair, …

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Burning Babies Afghanistan’s Haditha: An Atrocity to End the War By Robert Dreyfuss

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, …

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India preaching what it does not practise By Latheef Farook

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 …

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Syria and Iran: The Great Game By Alastair Crooke

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 …

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