Global IssuesNews headlines for “War on Terror”, page 12
U.S. Muslims Upbeat Despite Scrutiny Since 9/11
- Inter Press Service
Despite increased public scrutiny since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and well-funded campaigns promoting Islamophobia, U.S. Muslims express a significantly higher level of satisfaction with their lives, their local communities, and the country's general direction than does the public at large, according to a major new survey released here Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.
INDIA: Grave Issues Trouble Kashmiris
- Inter Press Service
Rights activists say that thousands of unmarked graves newly uncovered along the Line of Control (LoC) in Indian Kashmir may hold the bodies of ‘disappeared’ people rather than those of militants killed while trying to cross the fortified de facto border between India and Pakistan.
Hariri Bombing Indictment Based on Flawed Premise
- Inter Press Service
The indictment of four men linked to Hezbollah in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri made public by the Special Tribunal on Lebanon Aug. 17 is questionable not because it is based on 'circumstantial evidence', but because that evidence is based on a flawed premise.
U.S.: New Report Identifies Organisational Nexus of Islamophobia
- Inter Press Service
A small group of inter-connected foundations, think tanks, pundits, and bloggers is behind the 10-year-old campaign to promote fear of Islam and Muslims in the U.S., according to a major investigative report released here Friday by the Center for American Progress (CAP).
PAKISTAN: For Shia Hazaras, it’s Funeral After Funeral
- Inter Press Service
Rukhsana Ahmed finds comfort visiting her husband Ahmed Ali Najfi’s grave. 'I feel at peace there,' says the 60-year-old widow, mother of four and member of the Shia Hazara community.
U.S.: CIA-NYPD Alliance = Systematic Racial Profiling
- Inter Press Service
While some Muslim Americans might have been hoping for a relaxation of the decade-long counterterrorism onslaught on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, a report published by the Associated Press - unearthing new and shocking realities on the extent of intelligence-gathering operations in New York City - suggests that the offensive on 'terror' is only just beginning.
PAKISTAN: Democracy Follows Drones
- Inter Press Service
Along with the devastating drone strikes the United States-led ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan is bringing changes to punitive laws imposed by British colonialism on Pakistan’s Pashtun areas more than a century ago.
Sri Lanka Ducks International Probe
- Inter Press Service
Although the Sri Lankan government has evaded calls for an international probe into alleged excesses while militarily defeating Tamil separatism in 2009, it may yet be called to account at the September session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
Why Pakistani Military Demands a Veto on Drone Strikes
- Inter Press Service
Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets U.S. drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here.
PAKISTAN: Violence Killing the Poor
- Inter Press Service
Taj Bibi’s eyes well up as she recalls the day her ten-year-old son was shot dead, a victim of the violence sweeping through the port city of Karachi since early July. 'My three sons, the 12-year-old twins and Adnan, 10, went out to play cricket in the street after lunch. Around 4 pm, the twins came running to tell me that Adnan had been shot. By the time I got there he’d breathed his last,' said Bibi, a Pashtun.
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