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Sunday Editorial: Consider Balochistan

Serious analysts count Balochistan as one of the top most failures of the PPP government.

(KARACHI, Pakistan) - Every few months we are reminded of Balochistan, on one pretext or the other. T

he last time the media approached the issue with some degree of seriousness was when the Republican legislators’ resolution came, demanding right of self-determination for the Baloch.

People Keep Disappearing in Sindh, Pakistan

Where can people of this Pakistani province turn?

(KARACHI) - A Supreme Court judicial commission had recently concluded that a large number of people have been victims of forced disappearances (people arrested unannounced by govt. agencies) in Sindh.

In some cases their tortured dead bodies are found after a few months or years of their abduction/arrest. Such was the case of Muzzafar Bhutto a JSMM leader recently.

Why Are Buddhists Committing Genocide Again?

Before it was Sri Lanka; now bloody Buddhist hands are robbing life on an epic scale in Burma.

(SALEM) - Buddhist militants are committing genocide again; the second time in 3 years.

Rohingya Muslims are being slaughtered in a spate of religious ethnic cleansing.

Media Accused of Biased Coverage of Unrest in Arakan State

The civilian government had announced changes to the legislation governing the media but they have yet to see the light of day.

(WASHINGTON DC) - A threat by Rangoon chief minister Myint Swe to prosecute news media that cover the current sectarian violence in the western state of Arakan in an irresponsible manner has highlighted the fragility of recent improvements in media freedom.

Theft of a Nation

"We must use terror" - Prime Minister Ben-Gurion in 1948

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - A recent story from a small American town in Pennsylvania reported a bank robbery by a 35-year-old who allegedly held up a Citizens Bank branch.

Canada Concedes Sri Lanka Committing War Crimes

Canada publicly and officially says Sri Lankan forces committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during war against Tamil Tigers.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka JDS News) - In an irreversible development that could fix Sri Lanka at any international tribunal, Canada has officially conceded that Sri Lankan Security Forces have committed war crimes.

During the final months of the war that ended in mid May 2009, SL repeatedly rejecting an asylum application filed by a top ranking naval officer.

Death Toll Rises To Eight in Gujrat Camp Attack

The camp was set up a month ago to search for the body of an officer who drowned in the river.

(GUJRAT, Pakistan) - The death toll in Gujrat military camp attack has raised to eight, According to details, one more injured in the attack succumbed to injuries in CMH Gujranwala.

The armed miscreants attacked the camp of security forces near River Chanab, killing six military personnel and a policeman on the spot while three others received bullet wounds.

Pakistan Reopens NATO Supplies Route

Pakistan has been cooperating with the international community on the principles of mutual respect‚ trust and interest. The Prime Minister said we had paid a high price for this cooperation.

(FAISALABAD, Pakistan) - Information Minister Qamar Zaman Karia says that the Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) had made a decision to reopen the NATO supply route.

Kaira said it was in Pakistan’s interest to facilitate US, NATO and ISAF forces in the transition process and in view of the larger interest of peace in Afghanistan and the region.

Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives launched

Torture is the result of a long and systematic process of social control, which uses old tactics of the powerful and unaccountable, without respect for past or present.

(HONG KONG) - The Asian Human Rights Commission has launched its new initiative, Torture: Asian and Global perspectives.

US Drone Strike Kills Six Terrorists in Miranshah

Both sides are at loggerheads over reopening Nato supply lines that Pakistan shut in fury on November 26 when US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

(FAISALABAD, Pakistan) - At least six suspected militants were killed when a US drone fired two missiles at a house of a local tribesman, Abdul Rehman, on Tuesday night in the Shawal area of North Waziristan, near the Pak-Afghan border.

A US drone attack on a terrorist compound in a Tribal Area killed six insurgents on Sunday, security officials said.