Turkey bans YouTube after Syria security talk leaked: ANKARA: Turkey on Thursday banned YouTube after the video-sharing website was used to spread damaging leaked audio files from a state security meeting that discussed possible military action in Syria. The recordings purport to show senior Turkish government, military and
This is not our war (Syria edition) – by Ahsan Butt: Editor’s Note: Otherwise a well written and perhaps well intentioned article, the author falls into the naive trap of the false Shia Sunni binary. Here are some guidelines for young writers who are willfully misled by their seniors in
پاکستان کا شامی جہاد – از ندیم سعید: تین سال سے جاری شامی خانہ جنگی میں سعودی عرب کے مؤقف کی تائید کر کے وزیراعظم نواز شریف نے پاکستان کو تنگ نظرسلفی اسلام کے اور بھی قریب کرلیا ہے۔سعودی عرب کے اٹھہتر سالہ ولی عہدشہزادہ سلمان بن
Chips of The Same Block – by Agha Shaukat Jafri: First it was the wicked Wahhabi government of Saudi Arabia, that decided quite recently, to furnish Antiaircraft Missiles to the so-called Syrian rebels so that a few more hundred or thousand innocent lives will be lost, and most likely
شام میں تکفیری وہابیوں کے انسانیت سوز مظالم: القاعدہ سے منسلک تکفیری خارجی گروہ شام میں کلمہ گو مسلمانوں کو ذبح کر رہا ہے. یہ درندے اور ان کے ہمدرد کسی رحم کے مستحق نہیں. بشار الاسد کو چاہیۓ کہ ان درندوں کو جڑ سے ختم کر
Whose sarin? – by Seymour M. Hersh: Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence,
Turkey Says Pakistan-trained Militants Fighting In Syria: Report says some 500 Turks are battling Damascus alongside terrorist groups. As many as 500 Turks, some of them trained at terrorist camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, have crossed over into Syria to fight the Bashar al-Assad regime
Why is Saudi Arabia Angry With The UN? – by Ali Hashim: The New York Times reports that “Saudi Arabia stunned the United Nations and even some of its own diplomats on Friday by rejecting a highly coveted seat on the Security Council, a decision that underscored the depth of Saudi