Pakistan & Kashmir

NOVANEWS   The Raymond Davis murders — American empire comes unhinged FOR THE BENEFIT OF MY AMERICAN FRIENDS By Dr. Zaidi About a year ago Gordon Duff and Jeff Gates, both associated with the Veterans Today website, and both well-connected with the Pentagon and the Pakistani military, visited the border area of Afghanistan and Pakistan in the company of top Pakistani army officers.  They heard the complaints and saw the evidence that the US, Israel and India had secretly created and were arming and nurturing the so-called Pakistani Taliban (TTP — Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) insurgency. Duff and Gates noticed that a great many of the supposed aid projects that were claimed to be German were actually manned by Western and Israeli Jews. The Pakistanis couldn’t tell the difference, but these ...

NOVANEWS   HILLARY'S NEW "DIPLOMATS?" DIPLOMAT, DRUG MULE OR TERRORIST? By Gordon Duff Diplomats don’t carry guns. They aren’t supposed to drive around in cars, shooting and running people over. We have seen this behavior a lot recently, part of a pattern of organized banditry, terrorism and mayhem America used to call the Global War on Terror. That war is over, written off as a joke.  The behaviors are there, the killings, the drones, the torture. We now call it diplomacy and the thugs are “diplomats.” We can only imagine what they do.  We have seen their parties, gay sex orgies in Kabul.  We have seen the photos from Abu Ghraib.  We have seen the bodies, children, women, the aged, anyone unable to duck gunfire from the window of a Humvee or black Chevy Tahoe. Now our own State Departmen...

NOVANEWS   "Knowledge is teleportation; it transports a people living in a land of ignorant slumber to the forefront of a revolution." ~ Jonathan Azaziah Israel’s Fission Field Warfare: Pakistan, Iraq and Egypt  By Jonathan Azaziah Fission is defined as ‘the act or process of splitting into parts.’ In a more scientific explanation, fission is defined as ‘division of the atomic nucleus into two lighter fragments releasing energy. In a nuclear power station, fission occurs slowly, while in a nuclear weapon, very rapidly. In both instances, fission must be very carefully controlled.’ When applied to daily shifts on the geopolitical front, the first definition is self explanatory. The second definition however, requires a bit of dissection. The ‘nucleus’ of a stable society is the peaceful, b...

NOVANEWS SHIR HEVER, JNEWS BLOG, FEB 15, 2011  This article was originally published by the JNews Blog and is republished with permission. The ripple effects of the Wikileaks documents are still being felt, but until recently Israeli officials continued to boast that the documents were ‘good for Israel’.  As opposed to the way the Palestinian Authority (PA) was portrayed in leaked cables, leading to scandalous revelations, for a while Israel suffered no such scandal from the documents pertaining to its conduct. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu evencame out in support of the leak of the papers, suggesting that the documents can do no harm to Israel's foreign policy.  He spoke too soon. More recent cables have provided unflattering revelations about Israel's policies in the Gaza St...

NOVANEWS By Saeed Qureshi It does not behove the PPP ministers to castigate and revile their former counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi, holding the prestigious portfolio of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. These foul mouthing ministers retaken in the cabinet are no angels themselves. I wonder if these guys including Babar Awan, Fauzia Wahab, and Ahmad Mukhatar possess an iota of dignity and honorable conduct as to heap indignities and diatribe on Shah Mehmood whose ouster was patently not on the basis of certain pious principles but for ulterior motives that are now well known. A respectable colleague is now being branded as villain and unwanted simply because he did not agree with questionable postures of the prime minister and the president of Pakistan on certain foreign policy issue...

NOVANEWS   FAISALABAD; SHUMALIA, WIFE OF FAHIM, ONE OF TWO MEN KILLED BY RAYMOND DAVIS (SUICIDE) DAVIS FOR AAFIA SWAP DEMANDED “Enclaves of Americans, CIA, Blackwater, “diplomats,” are said to be all over Pakistan.  Webster Tarpley (video below) claims they are recruiting and training terrorists.” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Americans have been told one of their diplomats is being held illegally in Pakistan after killing two terrorists.  The American government has made every imaginable effort to secure his release.  Why would America’s most powerful ally, a nation dependent on American aid to survive, a nation who has lost more troops supporting America’s wars than America herself, suffered more terror attacks and more economic disruption simply, as the news reports, hold s...

NOVANEWS   Enough is enough; Kashmiris want their right to self determination By Ayesha T Villalobos It is sufficient to mention that Kashmir’s protest against India’s atrocities for self-determination  is timely and long  overdue, while it is complex to locate the origins of Kashmir in those events from the time of the Raj and how it came into existence and how Kashmir were transformed by these events of the late 19th century . From that event emanated a series of bloody era, perpetual uncertainty and suffering among the people of Kashmir. India who occupied the centre was in a privilege position vis-a-vis the source of all power and authority, dominated the social and economic life of the inhabitants. They have power over the whole scenario, denying the meaningfulness of the human ex...

NOVANEWS By Air Commodore ® Khalid Iqbal                                                                                          Recently, Indian Home Secretary, G K Pillai floated the test balloon that Indian government was contemplating reduction of the Force level in IHK by 25 per cent, in the next 12 months, as a confidence building measure. The idea has however stirred up an interesting controversy in India. While commenting on Indian government’s intent to cut down the troop’s strength in IHK, BJP’s state president Shamsher Singh said, “It is an open fact that India’s administration over Jammu and Kashmir is based on presence of armed forces here. So if there is troop-cut then neighbours like China Pakistan and Afghanistan won’t sit silent… decision of reducing troops in J&...

NOVANEWS   Sixty three years have lapsed but Kashmir dispute remains unresolved. During this period, besides several military  standoffs, two full fledged Indo-Pak wars and two localised conflictsin April 1965 and in summer of 1999 took place on account of Kashmir issue. India has been defying UN Resolutions on Kashmir and playing monkey tricks all these years to avoid resolving the dispute. Indian security forces have kept the people of Kashmir suppressed through use of brute force and has hid its gross human rights abuses under the cover of blatant lies and deceit. Today Kashmir has turned into a dangerous nuclear flashpoint.  The peace loving and docile Kashmiris patiently waited for 43 long years in the hope that India would fulfil its solemn commitment and hold a fair plebiscite b...

NOVANEWS   Why the world is silent on Indian brutalities, will they ever answer this question? By Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan The Asia Watch and Physician for Human Rights carried a joint investigation of human rights violations by Indian security forces in Indian Occupied Kashmir in 1990s. In the summary of the report, the investigators clearly mentioned that; “In their efforts to crush the insurgency, Indian forces in Indian Kashmir have engaged in massive human rights violations including extra-judicial assaults on health care workers. Indian security forces have systematically violated international human rights and humanitarian law. Among the worst of these violations have been the summary executions of hundreds of detainees in the custody of security forces in Kashmir. Such killings a...