dawn.com Obama’s revised approach is expected to implicitly repudiate the 2002 “Bush Doctrine” asserting the right to wage pre-emptive war against countries and terrorist groups deemed a threat to the United States. –Photo by AP WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s new national security doctrine will make clear that the United States does not consider itself to be at war with Islam, a top adviser said on Wednesday, reports Reuters. The White House on Thursday plans to roll out Obama’s first formal declaration of national security goals, which are expected to deviate sharply from the go-at-it-alone approach of the Bush era that … Continue reading Obama’s doctrine to make clear no war on Islam

Read and burn by Nadeem F. Paracha A rundown of books we can expect to see on our shelves in coming years… Solved! The BB Assassination By Liver Stone According to this fantastic new book on the enigmatic Benazir Bhutto assassination, famous Hollywood director, ISI spy, and Musharraf fan, Liver Stone, proves that the former Pakistani PM was killed by a 2.2 air rifle pellet that was fired from the third floor of a paan shop in Siberia in the former Soviet Union in 1962. The pellet then traveled for many years across Europe and Central America and hit BB … Continue reading Great Books coming out soon!

Fazlullah reportedly killed in clash: Afghan police dawn.com “Maulvi Fazlullah was killed in direct clash with Afghan border police…last night,” said Mohammad Zaman Mamozai, chief of the Afghan border force for the eastern region. — File Photo by AP ASADABAD: A top leader of Pakistan’s Taliban may have been killed in a clash with Afghan forces near the border, a senior Afghan police officer said on Thursday. Maulvi Fazlullah, the head of a Taliban faction in the Swat Valley, was reportedly killed along with six of his comrades in the Barg Matal district of Afghanistan’s Nuristan province, which lies close … Continue reading Mullah Fazlullah DEAD?

 <!– Posted أبريل 29th, 2010 by saeedhassan –> <!– in page 26 الاولى جريدة المدينة مقالات ليوم –> الجمعة, 30 أبريل 2010 الاميرة بسمة بنت سعود بن عبد العزيز بحثت وبحثت في أروقة صفحات التاريخ، وبين كتب السيرة النبوية وفي سير الصحابة والتابعين، فلم أجد مسمى هيئة الأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر، ولم أجد لها ذكرا إلا في القرآن الكريم عامة للناس أجمعين، «الآمرين بالمعروف والناهين عن المنكر» وهذا مصطلح عام يأمر به الله كافة المسلمين، الأمر بالمعروف وهنا أتوقف عند كلمة المعروف، ما هو تفسير القرآن واللغة العربية للمعروف: هي كلمة تدل على الرقة واللطافة والحوار بشتى أنواع … Continue reading التاريخ والهيئة والمصداقية

Pakistan’s antisocial networking To oppose the Facebook ban in Pakistan is to be accused of blasphemy by the rabble-rousing right Kamila Shamsie guardian.co.uk, Have they not heard the phrase “going viral”? That was my first response to hearing that the Lahore high court had placed a temporary ban on Facebook in response to its Everybody Draw Mohammad Day! page. Sure enough, the ban brought the page to the attention of millions, and – as some found ways around it and others uploaded the offending images on alternative sites – led to a subsequent ban on BlackBerry services, proxy servers, YouTube … Continue reading Are Mullahs on Facebook Haraam?

Female attacks on religious police show shift in Saudi values Recent attacks on Saudi Arabia’s ‘morality police’ suggest public support for intrusive religious law enforcement is waning Nesrine Malik guardian.co.uk Recent attacks suggest Saudi women’s tolerance of religious police is waning. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AFP/Getty Images Something’s afoot in Saudi Arabia. In the past month, there have been two incidents where Saudi women, when questioned or harassed by the notorious “morality police” from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, have lashed out – literally. In the first incident, according to the Saudi Gazette, a young couple … Continue reading Saudi women in hit and run attacks on ‘morality police’ hidden in veils – the police cannot identify the women!

The wrong kind of war Classical military strategy has failed. In Afghanistan and elsewhere we should prioritise human security Mary Kaldor guardian.co.uk Does the war in Afghanistan keep our streets safe? Both the current and the previous government claim that it does, but the real answer is probably not. Every attack directed at the Taliban and al-Qaida, even precise drone attacks, provides a justification for mobilising more recruits. But would withdrawal from Afghanistan be any better? That is what critics of the war propose. And again, the answer is probably not. Many Afghans fear that it could mean a return … Continue reading Classical military strategy has failed in Afghanistan

10 Creative Drug Smuggling Schemes Being innovative and outrageously creative in drug smuggling schemes requires a lot of  desperation and obviously a lot of brains. Conversely, evidently as creative as the list of such schemes is as below, they all still got caught. Nevertheless, they do deserve a cachet for coming up with such ingenious ideas. 1. Cocaine Pringles credits: myninjaplease.com Chopping and slicing thinly sheets of cocaine to make it look just like Pringles and then putting them in a can of Pringles is definitely a pure desperate act of genius. In 2006, Austin, Texas, police found about 168 … Continue reading Creative Drug Smugglers (do not try this – this is illegal)

This is a world of competition and without reasonable doubt; women are in the forefront of absolutely everything under the sky, right alongside men. Nevertheless, the so-called superior specie likes to sometimes think otherwise. Here we have compiled for you a list of some stereotypes that men like to associate us ladies with and how we can justify each and every one of them: 1. Women Can’t Learn to Park A Car Men think that a woman behind the wheel is a pure breed from dumb Ville. They think that perhaps a poor lady behind the wheel of an Escalade … Continue reading Women!!!