Propaganda campaign against Iran will backfire, Iran Supreme Leader

Tehran : Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that the enemies’ propaganda campaign against Iran will rebound on them, Tehran Times Reprted.  

The Iranian Leader made the remarks in an address to thousands of well-wishers in the western city of Gilan Gharb, Kermanshah Province, on Saturday.

E.U. puts new sanctions against Syria after Turkey seizes arms shipment

E.U puts in news set of sanctions against Syria after Turkey saed it has intercepted an arms shipment at sea destined for the protest-wracked country after another day of deadly demonstrations. 

The new measures are the seventh set of E.U. sanctions imposed to punish the regime of President Bashar al-Assad for its relentless crackdown on dissent that erupted in mid March. Earlier this month, the E.U. adopted a ban on Syrian crude oil imports.

Gaddafi compound hit third time by nato

TRIPOLI : According to Washington Post NATO missiles have once again hit Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s compound early Thursday, hours after the longtime leader appeared on state television to dispel rumors that he had died.

Missiles could be heard screeching through the sky shortly after 3 a.m., followed by massive

It's time to Right the Wrongs of History

New York : Its time to right the wrongs of History as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will attempt to secure a just future for the Palestinian people by applying for UN membership for the state of Palestine. 

After enduring decades of expulsion, discrimination and occupation, Palestinians yearn to establish a modern, democratic state. We are at the mountaintop, but whether we cross sooner or later into the promised land of freedom and statehood depends largely on an American President who wasn't even born when Abbas' family and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced into exile in 1948.

President Zardari arrives in Iran for important visit

TEHRAN: According to state television, Pakistani President Asif Zardari is arrived in Tehran for talks with officials in less than a month after the two countries agreed to cooperate with Afghanistan to fight against militants.

Afghan Army soldier fires on NATO Soldiers killing at least One

KANDAHAR: At least one Nato soldier was killed by an Afghan army soldier this Saturday, near the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah, due this week to be one of the first places where Nato will hand security control to Afghan forces, a senior police source said.

“The shooting happened during a joint security patrol,” said the senior police detective, who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.

California Governor orders to include Gay and Lesbian History in Text books,

SAN FRANCISCO: Californian Governor Jerry Brown has signed the mandate into law that the public school textbooks should include the accomplishments of gay, lesbian and transgender Americans.

“History should be honest,” Brown said in a written statement released by his office.

Violence continues in Iraq as US troops resumed attacks on Militias

BAGHDAD: The six pilgrims were killed on the outskirts of the holy shrine city of Karbala, 100 kilometres south of the capital, who were making their way as part of commemorations for the birth of a revered Muslim figure.

“A car bomb killed three people and wounded 20 people inside a bus station north of the city of Karbala,” said General Othman al-Ghanimi, a security official in charge of security in the region.

US Pull out from Afghanistan begins as first troops leave

KABUL: The pullout from Afghanistan begins as first US troops have left the country as part of US President Barack Obama’s announced withdrawal plan in June this year which was the fastest timetable than the military had recommended.

The first 10,000 troops will come home by the end of the year, but Obama left the details up to his commanders.

The commander of Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami Ilyas Kashmiri is stil Alive

ISLAMABAD: The commander of Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri who was reportedly killed in a US drone attack in South Waziristan last month, is still alive, according to Pakistani Meida reports.

It claimed on the account that security officials of the United States and Pakistan failed to confirm the death of the HuJI commander and he is still active in the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, sources added.

US cut Pakistan’s military aid over trainers: FO

Minister for Foreign affairs Hina Rabbani Khar briefing the committee 

KARACHI: The Foreign Office said on Friday that the United States cut of $500 million in aid to Pakistan was in response to the cutback in the number of US trainers in Pakistan.

The Senate’s Standing Committee on Foreign Relations has ordered an investigation into the matter.

Suicide bomber attacked the funeral of Karzai's brother

Kandahar :A suicide bomber hits funeral of Karzai's brother killing three people along with the cleric Hikmatullah, head of the Kandahar provincial religious council, and wounded 15 others, the governor of Kandahar Toryali Wesa told the media.

The bomber appears to have hid his explosives in his turban when he arrived at the funeral in the city's Red Mosque.

South Sudan becomes 193rd UN member

Juba : people dance to celebrate independence

 UNITED NATIONS : United Nations General Assembly admitted South Sudan 193rd member of the United Nations, sealing the new African country's independence after decades of conflict.

The assembly vote, by acclamation, followed South Sudan's independence ceremony in the capital Juba on Saturday, after its people voted in a January referendum to break away from Sudan -- a decision accepted by Khartoum.

Pakistan will continue busting underground CIA Networks, ISI chief to tell US

Islamabad : Chief of the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha is going to give the following message to his American counterpart in Washington: Yes to formalised anti-terror cooperation, No to private CIA network, as he is to meet acting CIA Director Michael Morell on Wednesday.

According to senior intelligence officials here, Pasha would tell the American spy chief that the ISI has no objection to anti-terror cooperation between the two agencies but would never tolerate a private ‘network’ the CIA is secretly maintaining in Pakistan.

Israel bombs Gaza after rocket fire

JERUSALEM: Israeli fighter jets bombed two sites in Gaza early on Wednesday, wounding one woman, Palestinian sources said.

The Israeli military said its aircraft “targeted two weapons manufacturing sites in the northern Gaza Strip.” Direct hits were confirmed and secondary explosions were identified,” the military said in a statement.

U.S General James Mattis Meets Pakistani leaders

ISLAMABAD : U.S Central Command Commander Gen. James Mattis visited Pakistan as part of his routine of visiting and consulting with senior Pakistani military and security officials. 

According to US embassy here, Gen. Mattis met General Kayani, the Chief of the Pakistani Army, and General Wynne, Pakistan’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee to share perspectives on the current relationship between the two militaries and to review the way ahead. 

This is Gen Mattis’ fifth visit to Pakistan in his 11 months as CENTCOM commander.

India Tightens Security as Kashmiri People mark 'Martyr's Day'

Indian security forces attacking Kashmiri protestors

Srinagar : Indian security forces have imposed tight security restrictions in Srinagar ahead of Wednesday's 80th anniversary of a violent crackdown on Kashmiri Muslims in the city.

Kashmiri separatist leaders have called for a strike and public processions to commemorate the 1931 killings of 21 Kashmiri Muslims who were revolting against the rule of Kashmir's Hindu king.

Cypris Navy Chief among 12 killed in Iranian confiscated ammunition Blast

Nicosia : The head of Cyprus' navy, Andreas Ioannides, was among 12 people killed when seized containers of gunpowder exploded at its main base.

The commander of the Evangelos Florakis base, Lambros Lambrou, also died, reported BBC.

The defence minister and military chief have resigned over the incident, which officials said occurred after a bush fire ignited the explosives.

CIA Ran a fake vaccine programme to get Bin Laden family

Osama bin laden compound

London : According to the Guardian newspaper US intelligence (CIA) launched a fake vaccine drive in Pakistani city of Abbottabad to trace Bin Laden family DNA. 

The British News Paper further claimed that CIA officials recruited a senior local doctor to organize the campaign after it tracked down a bin Laden courier to what turned out to be the al-Qaida fugitive's compound in the town of Abbottabad.

US drone Kills 10 people in North Waziristan

Miramshah : A US operated drone have attacked a compound by killing atleast 10 people in North Waziristan area according to Local security officials.

The unmanned aircraft fired four missiles, hitting the compound and a vehicle parked nearby in North Waziristan tribal district, a senior official based in Peshawar told AFP

A Russian Volga River cruise Ship Sinks, At least 50 died

File Photo of Russian Volga River Cruise Ship

MOSCOW : An overloaded Volga River cruise ship of Russia has sank in a storm Sunday afternoon and dozens of people are missing and presumed dead in Russia's worst marine accident in 25 years.The current death toll rose to 50 but officials said it was likely to climb further as divers continued the grim task of removing the dead.

Iran's IRGC calls for foreign warships pullout from Persian Gulf

TEHRAN : The Aerospace Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Amir Ali Hajizadeh called for the withdrawal of foreign warships from the Persian Gulf, local Mehr news agency reported on Sunday.

The countdown for the withdrawal of foreign warships from the Persian Gulf has started, Hajizadeh was quoted as saying.

Israel welcomes South Sudan independence

Tel Aviv :  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that the Jewish state recognizes South Sudan and wished the world's newest nation "much success."

"Yesterday, a new state was born, South Sudan. I hereby announce that Israel recognizes the Republic of South Sudan," he said. "We wish it much success."

Pro-Palestinian activists plan week of protests in West Bank

Jerusalem : Pro-Palestinian activists gathered from different countries of world have planned a week of protests in West Bank to show solidarity with Palestinian people and mount pressure on Israel to end the Gaza and West Bank siege. 

The Protests will Start in Bethlehem and end in J'em, foreign activists will take a stand in support of Palestinian statehood in second phase of the "Welcome to Palestine" campaign which began with the "flightilla."

Whose coalition will break first, Kadafi's or NATO?"

NATO Bombing civilian targets in Libya

 Burssels : Despite some rebel gains against Kadafi regime, Western allies fear their coalition may split before he is ousted. And pressure for a negotiated settlement may leave Kadafi with some leverage. NATO victory looks still elusive after 15 weeks of bombing and Western allies arrayed against Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi are racing to crack his regime before their own coalition fractures.

Al-Qaida's defeat within reach if US Kills or captures 20 more Al-Qaida leaders, Panetta

KABUL - New U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, saying he believed the strategic defeat of al-Qaida was within reach if the U.S. could kill or capture up to 20 remaining leaders of the core group and its affiliates.

Panetta, on his first trip since taking over the Pentagon on July 1, told reporters before arriving in Kabul that now was the time - in the wake of the May killing of Osama bin Laden - to intensify efforts to target al-Qaida's leadership.

Israel Jails 120 foriegn activists

JERUSALEM : Israel has jailed some 120 foreign activists Saturday after  they arrived at Tel Aviv's airport over the weekend as part of a solidarity mission with the Palestinians.

Others who managed to get through Israeli border controls traveled to the West Bank where they joined a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier. Associated Press Television footage showed some foreign activists, along with Palestinians, cutting threw the barrier's barbed wire fence with clippers.

Terrorists interested in putting bombs inside humans to attack

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has warned domestic and international airlines that some terrorists are considering surgically implanting explosives into humans to carry out attacks, The Associated Press has learned.

Afghan war success possible without Pakistan help, Gates

WASHINGTON: US defense secretary Robert Gates told AFP that Success is possible in the war in Afghanistan even if Pakistan fails to fully cooperate in countering militants along its border.

With Pakistan taking some positive steps, Gates said: “I think that as long as the picture stays mixed like that, that we can be successful.”

NATO raids kills civilians in Libya

Tripoli : Many civilians have been killed in a NATO air strike in eastern Tripoli in the early hours of Sunday morning according to a footage of raid shown on state TV. Reporters were taken to a residential area in the city's Arada neighbourhood and saw a body pulled out of the rubble of a destroyed building.

"There was intentional and deliberate targeting of the civilian houses," Khaled Kaim, Libya's deputy foreign minister, said.

Tiny Teen To Be Named World's Smallest Man

A teenage boy the size of a one-year-old toddler is set to be crowned the smallest man in the world. Junrey Balawing will be given the title by Guinness World Records on Sunday as he celebrates his 18th birthday. 

Turkey Offers Get-Out Guarantee To Gaddafi

Turkey's Prime Minister says he has offered a guarantee to help Colonel Gaddafi - if he leaves Libya Tayyip Erdogan told Turkish TV he had not had any response to his approach, the terms of which have not been revealed.

Meanwhile fighting is ongoing in the rebel-held town of Misratah, where 31 people have reportedly been killed.

Suicide Bomber Kills another Afghan Police Chief

Khost : A suicide bomber has killed the commander of a provincial Afghan police rapid reaction force in Khost in eastern Afghanistan.

Saturday's attack, which killed Commander Zahir, also claimed the lives of two of his bodyguards and 16 others were wounded in the blast.

America's Ghost Warriors and the secret war in Pakistan

US Special troops in Afghanistan don’t wear uniforms, have long beards

 American secret war in Pakistan is exposed, following is the report of an embedded journalist from Jalalabad Afghanistan.

U.S. military officials don’t talk about secret war in Pakistan.

Don’t even ask, I was told, on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan at Bagram and Jalalabad.

Don’t ask about the remotely-controlled American drones armed with missiles that are now hunting across the Pakistani border, searching through the mountain peaks, valleys and dusty

US 'nearly completes' troop drawdown in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD — The United States said Friday that it had nearly completed a drawdown in military personnel from Pakistan as demanded by Islamabad when relations plummeted over the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Vice Admiral Michael LeFever, US defence representative in Pakistan, made the announcement in a statement released by the US embassy in Islamabad, but left the door open to future security assistance.

Canada to pull out of a Key Nato air surveillance Programme

OTTAWA: Canadian has announced that he is withdrawing from a key Nato air surveillance program as part of cost-cutting measures.

The Nato Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) is widely used by the alliance in Afghanistan and Libya to monitor air space and guide fighter jets to their targets.

"Picasso of India" M.F. Husain dies in exile aged 95

London : India's best known painter Maqbool Fida Husain died in exile in London on Thursday aged 95, a close friend of the artist told Reuters.

"He died of old age. It happened early this morning," said Munna Zaveri, a friend of Husain for 40 years, before leaving for London. "He was in hospital for some time and was supposed to come home today or tomorrow but his condition worsened."

Zawahiri vows to continue al-Qaeda's jihad

Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second in command, has issued a eulogy for Osama bin Laden, saying the slain group's chief terrified the US when he was alive and would continue to do so in death.

Al-Zawahiri appeared in a white Arab robe and turban, a Kalashnikov at his side, in a 28-minute video posted on jihadist online forums on Wednesday.

US plans to sabotage Pakistan nuke facilities: Ahmadinejad

TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a media conference in Tehran accused Washington of planning to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear facilities.

“We have precise information that America wants to sabotage the Pakistani nuclear facilities in order to control Pakistan and to weaken the government and people of Pakistan,” said the Iranian President.

Globalists’ Pakistan War Plan: Destabilization and invasion

Map of Afghanistan and Pakistan

On deaf ears: Obama's message to Israel

Late May's extraordinary sequence of speeches and meetings involving US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu - and the commentary surrounding it from official circles in both countries - did not make for an edifying interlude. 

The week beginning May 19 will not be remembered for displays of farsighted statecraft, or high moral courage. What we saw instead was brash, unapologetic chauvinism from Netanyahu, an outright refusal of moral leadership from Obama, and acts of political cowardice and opportunism from the US Congress outrageous even by the low standards of that frequently ignominious body.

14 dead as Israel opens fire Palestinians on Golan Heights

MAJDAL SHAMS: Israeli troops opened fire on Sunday as protesters from Syria stormed a ceasefire line in the occupied Golan Heights, with Damascus saying 14 demonstrators were killed.

Hundreds of protesters rushed towards the ceasefire line, cutting through a line of barbed wire as they tried to head into the Golan Heights in a repeat of demonstrations last month that saw thousands mass along Israel’s north.

Pakistan tests Raad air-to-surface cruise missile

Air Launched Cruise Missile, Hatf-VIII (Ra’ad)

Islamabad : Pakistan successfully Flight Tested the natively developed Air Launched Cruise Missile, Hatf-VIII (Ra’ad). Due to the ongoing process of developing better technical parameters of the weapon system, the test was performed. The newly developed Ra’ad missile has a range of over 350 km, and has been exclusively developed to launch from Aerial Platforms.

Bomb Blast in Peshawar and Four American in a bogus number Car nearby

Peshawar: A Planted time bomb on a vehicle has exploded on a bus stop in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killed at least six people on Sunday, police said.

Near by four Americans were stopped on bogus number plated vehicle but released later on. according to media reports a time bomb was planted on a passenger vehicle on a bus stop which exploded.

Five Myths and Misconceptions about Pakistan

Late last month, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said there was no evidence that Pakistani officials had known that Osama bin Laden lived undetected blocks from the country’s equivalent to West Point. But after the al-Qaeda leader was killed in Abbottabad on May 1, others were skeptical. “How could they not know?” said Sen. John Kerry “Did nobody have some questions about who the hell was living behind those walls?”

In the war on terrorism, where does Pakistan’s loyalty lie? If this nation is our ally, why can’t we trust it? To answer these questions, let’s first tackle some widespread misconceptions about a troubled country torn between the Taliban and the West.

Rafah border crossing closed by Egypt on the Day of Naksa

Gaza : Angry Palestinians have protested on the Rafah terminal after Egypt shut the border crossing with Gaza for the first time since Egypt's new military government has declared that the Rafah crossing will remain open permanently.

Palestinian border officials said three buses filled with 180 passengers had waited several hours to cross the border at Rafah, the Hamas-ruled territory's gateway to Egypt, and some of those waiting responded by forcing the gate open.

Two Nato troops killed in southern Afghanistan

Kandahar : The US-led coalition said Two of their troops were killed in a in separate insurgent attacks Friday in the south Afghanistan. 

The coalition did not disclose further details of the deaths or the troops’ nationalities. The statements on the latest fatalities were released late Friday and Saturday.

More than 200 Nato troops have died so far this year in Afghanistan.

India warns Pakistan over any new terror attacks

SINGAPORE: A top defence official has warned that India would likely retaliate if another terror attack on its soil is linked to members of Pakistan’s security apparatus.

Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju said at a regional security conference in Singapore on Saturday that self-restraint would be hard to justify to the Indian people if there were another attack similar to the one in Mumbai in 2008.

Pakistani Taliban Attack on border check post Clues Nato Backing

Dir, Pakistan: The Pakistani Taliban asserted responsibility Friday for a cross-border attack on a security check post according to Reuters this appeared to signal that the group is Nurtured and Backed by some foreign hand in carrying out large-scale attacks on government and army targets from Nato controlled Afghanistan.

Egypt limits crossings at Gaza border

Palestinian Children At Gaza Border

GAZA:  Egypt government ruled by Army has reimposed restrictions Wednesday on the number of Palestinians allowed to enter from the Gaza Strip at the Rafah crossing, days after permanently opening the border point in a move to ease Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory.

Hatem Aweidah, who is in charge of border crossings for the Hamas government in Gaza, said that Egyptian officials had set a limit of 350 to 400 travelers who would be granted entry each day, on the grounds that border personnel could not handle more.