The latest in the Jack Ryan movies nearly comes to life: A mysterious night-time telephone call last week brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistan close to the brink of war at the height of the crisis over the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistani officials said Sunday. They said the “threatening” call was made, ostensibly by Indian Foreign […]
The Financial Times reports: General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s military ruler, urged the US on Monday to resolve a growing dispute with neighbouring Afghanistan over the location of Taliban dissidents who Kabul says have taken refuge on Pakistani soil. In unusually tough remarks, Gen Musharraf said Pakistan would use a visit to Islamabad on Wednesday by […]
Remember last year when protests broke out across the Middle East because of a report in Newsweek that our military was flushing the Quran? It created a big back lash that ended up with Newsweek publishing a retraction and the right escalating their attack against opponents of the war. Here we are 7 months later […]