Pakistan’s current president Mr. Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday that the war with the Talibans that was being fought by the International community in Afghanistan is being lost, and criticized Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron for questioning Islamabad’s resolve. Shortly before leaving France for Britain for a visit that could define Pakistan’s troubled relations with the West, Zardari set the stage for a difficult meeting with Cameron, saying he hoped a “frank exchange” would clear the air. During his recent visit to India, the Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron said that Pakistan is not doing enough to denounce terrorism. This statement infuriated Islamabad.

In a statement Zardari quoted that it is really unacceptable that people doubt our efforts to fight against terrorism. “Pakistanis were disappointed by Cameron’s comments especially as he said them in India and for this reason it was even more important for the president to visit Britain to address this issue,” the statement said.

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The latest American Bill proposed by a couple of people belonging to republican and the democrat group, calls for the retrieval of American troops from the land of Pakistan where they are indulged in operations against the militants.

“We have known that US forces have been operating in secret inside the territories of Pakistan without congressional approval,” Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich said on Friday, pointing to reports the United States was stepping up its presence there. He futher added that the House of Representatives was expected to take up the resolution next week. The measure was introduced late on Thursday.

He pointed out that such operations against the militants are direct violation of the 1973 War Power Resolution that was proposed after the war of Veitnam. This resolution confines the power of sending troops into military operations to the president alone and imposes a condition that the United States of America must be under a chronic threat of anarchy, only then the president would be allowed to send troops. Read more…

The tough duty of the U.S soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, has increased their suicide rate to a record high. Now an average of 1 suicide per day. According to US Army statistics, the last month has been the worst of all times, with 32 soldiers taking their own lives. Twenty-one were on active duty, with the rest being among National Guards or Army Reserve in an inactive status, CNN reported Friday. Read more…

It is said that Afghanistan is the “Graveyard of Empires”. You might not believe it because it makes no sense that how the country which has no Institutions, no regular Army, no Economy has defeated the largest Empires of their times. The common man in Afghanistan is living a life of Stone Age in 21st century. Read more…

Article by Stephen Lendman

Besides waging direct or proxy wars on multiple fronts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, the Philippines, Sudan, Eastern Congo, elsewhere in Africa, and likely to erupt almost anywhere at any time, Yemen is now a new front in America’s “war on terror” under a president, who as a candidate, promised diplomacy, not conflict, if elected.

In 2008, he told the Boston Globe that:

“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” Read more…