Recently, some senior American politicians have initiated efforts to support the separation of Baluchistan from Pakistan. Californian Republican, Dana Rohrabacher is leading the campaign for Pakistan's dismemberment, and he has been joined in this crusade by fellow Republican Congressmen Louie Gohmert and Steve King. On February 18, 2012, the three Republican politicians tabled a bill before congress that states that Baluchistan is currently divided between Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan with…

"...the UN emerged chiefly as a result of an agreement among the great powers led at that time by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. They concluded that the founding of a world organization was in the interests of their respective states. One should ask why they concluded this and then set those reasons alongside the idealism." Mark Mazower The recent double veto by Russia and China against the UN resolution calling…

Reuters reported that "an unnamed senior security official said that Pakistan expects to re-open supply routes to Nato forces in Afghanistan but will impose tariffs." It is less than two months since the brutal killings of 24 Pakistani soldiers by US forces, yet the agents amongst the military and political leaderships of Pakistan have started a media campaign to reopen the Nato supply line. This means that a life of…

Is there now to be a court trial for many Muslims in Britain for having Sayed Qutb's book Milestones (Ma'alim fi al-tareeq) on their bookshelves? I do not think so. Why do I pose the question? It is because of a recent trial in which the ideas contained in Milestones and other books were effectively on trial and ruled as unacceptable by a British judge and jury. What has been…