Pervez Musharraf. (Photo: AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom) Today’s indictment of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for conspiracy to murder former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto demonstrates that the Pakistani judiciary is increasingly willing to challenge the authority of the powerful Pakistani Army. While it is in the U.S. interest that Pakistan’s democratic institutions are strengthened and that […]
General Jack Keane (Retired), the former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, said that Barack Obama knew about Osama Bin Laden’s hideout since the summer of 2010, 10 months before the raid. Obama refused to act for several months, as every month goes by the risk of comprise increased and Obama still did not […]
(CNSNews.com) – Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is planning to hold talks with jihadists, including the umbrella group known as the Pakistani Taliban, despite the failure of numerous similar initiatives over the past seven years. Campaigning ahead of the general election last May, Sharif pledged to negotiate a peace deal with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan […]
The shooting at the gurdwara (temple) in Oak Creek, Wisconsin on 5 August 2012, brought to the fore how vulnerable Sikhs were as a minority in America. Because they do not actively proselytise little is known about them by millions of their fellow Americans. From What’s So Great About America (Penguin Books, 2002), conservative commentator […]
A new film follows the harrowing true ordeal of a Pakistani family who dared to fight for justice after their daughter was gang raped. When a girl was gang raped by four men at the age of 13, her village in Pakistan identified her as a “black virgin” and ordered her killed. In the rural […]
Pakistan formally designates its Infidel population as dhimmis. What this means is Pakistan is openly legalizing discrimination against its minorities as mandated by Islamic law. Islamic law mandates second-class dhimmi (“protected,” and “zimmi”) status for non-Muslims in the Islamic state. Islamic apologists in the U.S. routinely claim that the second-class status for dhimmis is a […]
The Pakistan Taliban’s second-in-command was killed in a drone strike Wednesday in the country’s tribal region, a local tribal official and an intelligence official told CNN. Wali-Ur Rehman Mehsud is second in command to Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the terrorist organization. While the Pakistan Taliban’s spokesman would neither confirm nor deny the report to […]
On 13 May 2013 Nawaz Sharif claimed electoral victory for his Pakistan Muslim League. Described by Sky News as a centre-right part based upon free market economics this obscures the stark reality. Sharif is a steel magnate who is no doubt is likely to pursue privatisation and deregulation to revive growth of a stagnant economy. […]
How many Americans have heard of Extortion 17? Extortion 17 was the call sign for the Chinook helicopter shot down in Afghanistan on the night of August 6, 2011. Killed in that crash were 25 special ops forces, including 15 members of Seal Team 6, 5 national Guard troops and 8 Afghans. Today, the families […]
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry congratulated Pakistan on a weekend election that marks its first-ever transition between two democratically-elected civilian governments, but the outcome promises to bring new challenges to an already troubled relationship. The man now poised to lead the world’s second largest Muslim country, Nawaz Sharif, has […]
