Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Although the Obama Administration may well not recognize it, Pakistan is turning into the number one problem in fighting worldwide Islamic terrorism. The massacre of 79, many of them children, by an Islamic terrorist group aiming at Christians on a community playground on Eastern Sunday – large numbers […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former president who is facing a litany of charges including high-treason, left the country on March 18 three years after returning from exile and vowing to regain power. Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup and a staunch U.S. ally after the 9/11 attacks, was removed from the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com As trade and investment are set to pour into Iran, and oil pours out, Saudi media are reporting on widespread unease within the Kingdom over the lifting of international sanctions on Teheran. The al-Jazirah daily’s cartoonist drew an incarnation of American capitalism in striped trousers and top hat carrying a bottle marked “sanctions,” from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On May 26, one historic moment was accompanied by another. Yes, India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in as the new leader of the world’s largest democracy. But the most significant guest of honor witnessing the event was Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of bitter, long […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs staff in Islamabad Saudi Arabia’s concern over the growing regional strategic dominance of Iran rose to unprecedented levels when the U.S. Barack Obama Administration abandoned support for the Saudi, Turkish, and Qatari plans to escalate the war against Iranian ally Syria in 2013. Instead the White House began […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI — A bloody ambush on the Indian side of the line of control in the region over which India and Pakistan have been quarreling for decades shows not only the fragility of ceasefires but the inroads of terrorism from the Middle East across South and Southeast […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI — North Korean declarations of “a state of war” on the Korean peninsula tend to make people forget bloodier border confrontations elsewhere in Asia. None is more volatile than the standoff along nearly 3,000 kilometers of heavily guarded fencing that separates Pakistan from India. Koreans point […]