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Main Stories
Capturing the spy drone foils US war rhetoric on Iran
By Seyfeddin Kara
One of the most striking events in post-Revolutionary Iranian history unfolded in early December 2011 when Iranian state TV showed a captured RQ-170 Sentinel, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by the US for spying. It is one of...
This month question
The lynching of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya opens the way for US penetration and occupation of Africa.
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Editorials
US takes its Afghan war into Pakistan
Like a scorpion, the US has a peculiar way of showing gratitude. This was evident yet again on November 26 when US-NATO troops attacked two clearly marked Pakistani border posts killing 24 soldiers including two officers and wounding 28 others. Since...
News & Analysis
Is Islamophobia now official policy in Canada?
By Khadijah Ali
With his December 12 outburst against niqab, Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney confirmed that the rightwing government he serves is rabidly Islamophobic. This is not the first time Kenney and other members of the Conservative...
Opinion
Are majority Muslim countries truly independent?
Zafar Bangash, Reflections
Given that there are 56 “Muslim” nation-states, all members of the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Conference, the question may raise some eyebrows. Each country also has defined borders, a government headed b...
Special Reports
Pipelinestan re-aligns as US-Pakistan relations unravel
By Zainab Cheema
With the recent US-Pakistan brouhaha, which erupted when a two-hour NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in the northern tribal areas on 11-26-2011, the US audibly wondered if Pakistan had been pushed too far. Mass rallies bro...
Islamic Movement
The emerging Islamic order and Pakistan
General Mirza Aslam Beg — who is the former Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan and currently Chairman of the Islamabad-based NGO, Foundation for Research on International Environment, National Development and Security (FRIENDS) — expresses some of his v...
