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Smokers’ Corner: Ayub’s republic

Edit Dawn 10 Apr 2016
Studying Gen Ayub’s regime might have some tips for the military establishment as it attempts to revamp the country’s ideological narrative ... Soviet forces had entered Afghanistan, and Pakistan had become the launch pad for a number of Afghan guerrilla groups, aided by the US and Saudi Arabia, and facilitated by the Zia regime ... That period constitutes the Ayub Khan regime (1958-69)....

Jayalalithaa promises phased prohibition if elected to power

Edit Indian Express 10 Apr 2016
Chennai. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK Supremo J Jayalalithaa addressing a public meeting after launch of her election campaign for Assembly polls in Chennai on Saturday. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar (PTI4_9_2016_000135B) ... Read More ... Beer sales also jumped from 1.32 crore cartons during AIADMK regime in 2005-06 to 2.86 crore in 2010-11 ... It can be understood that it was the DMK regime that made people drink more,” she said....

A Conversation with Webster Tarpley

Edit GlobalResearch 10 Apr 2016
  “My most important long-term commitment is to work to improve the intelligence and world awareness of the anti-regime political forces in the United States and around the world.” Webster Griffin Tarpley, as quoted in the book Towers of Deception.… ... ....

India wants US word on tech transfer

Edit The Times of India 10 Apr 2016
NEW DELHI/GOA ... "We are not discussing buying the fighters. We want to make it in India through ToT for our requirements. But the American government has a technology transfer restriction regime ... ....

Austria plans to seize house where Adolf Hitler was born

Edit DNA India 10 Apr 2016
-->. Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the house in Brunau am Inn ... ALSO READ ... It was made the subject of an historic preservation order by Germany's National Socialist regime in 1938 after being purchased by the Nazi government ... ....

'Corrupt' Congress has no moral right to target our new state chiefs: BJP

Edit The Times of India 10 Apr 2016
NEW DELHI. BJP on Saturday hit back at Congress for criticising its newly-appointed party chiefs for UP and Karnataka, saying a party "whose leadership is out on bail in a case of alleged fraud and ran a corrupt regime for 10 years has no moral right to talk of corruption" ... Sharma also said Congress should stop blaming BJP for bringing down its governments ... ....

Did meeting with RSS seal comeback?

Edit The Times of India 10 Apr 2016
The lack of trusted and experienced leadership in Karnataka had left the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worried about how to address issues in the state under the Congress regime over the past three years. The RSS was reportedly troubled that the BJP wasn't taking any direct action on the ground against the Congress government and its policies ... They reportedly discussed how to address the leadership crisis ... ....

BJP on BS Yeddyurappa

Edit Indian Express 10 Apr 2016
Karnataka’s BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa. BJP on Saturday hit back at Congress over its “tainted” leaders charge, saying the party whose leadership is out on bail in a case of alleged fraud and ran a “corrupt” regime for ten years has no moral right to talk of corruption ... BJP also asserted that there was probity in its government and it was transparent ... Share This Article. Related Article ... 6, slideMargin ... ....

Kerry Will Visit Hiroshima Nuclear Site, Testing Water for Obama

Edit Bloomberg 10 Apr 2016
Seventy-one years after a U.S ... Kerry, the highest-ranked U.S ... The bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later, is widely seen in the U.S ... While Kerry last year helped broker a deal with Iran to prohibit the regime in Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, risks remain -- China’s program is not seen as transparent, and earlier this year North Korea ratcheted up tensions with its fourth test of a nuclear device....

The Observer view on how to clean up a squalid world financial mess

Edit The Observer 10 Apr 2016
“I could have handled this better,” he said ... This is not a crime. It is not a resignation matter ... It is amazing to discover, for example, how the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad squirrelled away vast amounts of ill-gotten cash with the help of Mossack Fonseca, the now notorious Panamanian law firm; easy-come, easy-go tax haven rules in the British Virgin Islands; and a blind eye from HSBC’s compliance department in Geneva ... Its remit ... ....

How confusion at top and wait for Rahul to step up leaves party in a limbo

Edit Indian Express 10 Apr 2016
Illustration. C R Sasikumar. THIS time last year, the Congress was waiting for Rahul Gandhi to return from a sabbatical that stretched to 56 days. He landed on April 16 morning, as unexpectedly, to emerge in his front lawn ... Read ... With the regime change in Arunachal and with Uttarakhand under President’s rule, the Congress is left in power in only seven states out of 29, and is the third wheel in a coalition government in Bihar....

Iran regime plans to execute juvenile offender

Edit NCRI 09 Apr 2016
Iran's regime is planning to execute Amanj Veisee for a crime he committed at the age of 15, Rebecca Carr of Amnesty International's 'Children's Human Rights Network' says. "At his retrial in December Juvenile offender Amanj Veisee was resentenced to death for the murder of his cousin – despite an official forensic report concluding that he had not attained ‘mental growth and maturity’ at the time of the crime," Ms ... ....

Iran regime executes man despite appeal by rights group

Edit NCRI 09 Apr 2016
NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Saturday executed student Rashid Kouhi despite an appeal by Amnesty International for the sentence to be halted. Mr. Kouhi, 36, was executed earlier in the day on Saturday in Rasht’s Lakan Prison in Gilan Province, northern Iran, sources said ... ....
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