Biogas potential in Pakistan
For the last five years, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources (MPNR) has been trying to implement a LNG project of a rather small capacity of 400 Billion Cubic Feet…
No ray of hope
In less than 20 months all coalition forces are due to withdraw from Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai’s outburst against the Americans had raised the question of whether Karzai wanted a…
A flawed narrative
THE excerpt from Mark Mazzetti’s new book, The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth, published last week by…
Seven decades on, Japan looks for WWII remains
Tears roll down Heitaro Matsumoto's face as the 72-year-old businessman talks of an uncle who died on Guam as a Japanese soldier in the hopeless final weeks of World War…
US conservatives adopted Thatcher as one of their own
Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher may have governed across the pond, but US conservatives mourned Monday as if they had lost one of their own. While Thatcher's legacy at…
G8 war on sexual violence highlights complex crime
Ever since records began, rape has accompanied warfare the world over - often regarded simply as an unfortunate by-product of conflict. Even the United Nations only classified it as a…
Judge-proof system?
We continue to hear that terrorists roam free in this country and play havoc with innocent lives because courts set them free. The argument essentially is that the judicial system…
Spotlight: Like music to sore ears!: …. but Afghanistan will not quit Uncle Sam!
I may sound out of tune with times in talking about anything other than our own looming General Elections but I ran across a piece of news about America (in…
Everything’s almost free in Spain’s parallel barter economy
It can be argued that extra-judicial interventions first by Ghulam Mohammad as Governor General in 1951 and later by military regimes and disregard of the Constitution - facilitated by either…
Latin America goes quiet without Chavez, Castro, Lula
With the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Latin America has lost the last of its high-profile charismatic leaders of recent years, and it remains to be seen whether it…
