News: In the beginning of November 2013, TTP leader Hakimullah Mahsood was targeted by a drone attack. It was particularly on the day that Pakistani government announced an official mission towards Northern Waziristan to conduct peace negotiations with TTP. Before that, Lateefullah Mahsood, who was Hakimullah Mahsood's driver and afterwards appointed as his deputy, came to Afghanistan as per Afghan government's request in order to play mediator role between Afghan…

On October 25, 2013 Pakistan's UN ambassador condemned US drone strikes, and declared that it was a gross violation of Pakistan's sovereignty and international law. He said, "Killing unarmed, innocent civilians is a clear breach of international law. We call for the immediate cessation of drone attacks inside the territorial borders of Pakistan." Earlier in the week, Pakistan Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif pleaded at the White House with US President…

News: Joyce Carol Vincent's door was broken down in order to serve her an eviction notice. Instead, they found her corpse slumped on the sofa, with the light from the TV still flickering. By 2006, she had lain there for almost three years. Letters flooded the hallway and the presents she had just wrapped, for Christmas 2003, laid around her skeleton. It is not clear how she died, but it…

News: The fallout from the Westgate Mall attack has been immense with some situations bordering on the comical. Straight from the intelligence briefings before the attack to the actual handling of the siege, it has been a case of pure incompetence by a so-called efficient security apparatus in cahoots with the political mandarins that run it. As reported by the Nation Newspaper of 28th September 2013, counter-terrorism reports seen by…