Kathua(J&K), November 05 (Vijay Kumar Malla)) – Indian Union Minister for Health and Medical Education, Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad said that since 1947 Pakistan had been continuously making attempt to forment violence and initiate wars in 1965, 1971 as well as in Kargil in 1999. The infiltrators during last 20 years were always […]
Video of The Obama Housing Fix: 5 Things to Know
A week after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s plan to resurrect the financial system landed with a thud, President Barack Obama called his own number Wednesday to unveil the new administration’s ambitious effort to rescue the housing market. In a speech in Arizona–a state that had the nation’s third-highest foreclosure rate in January–Obama detailed a multipronged […]
Georgian claims on Russia war undercut
Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the long-standing Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression. Instead, the accounts suggest that Georgia‘s inexperienced military attacked the isolated separatist capital of Tskhinvali on August 7 with […]
Militants Bargain on Release of Captives
‘Pakistan, USA and Afghanistan can jointly meet out the challenge posed by militants, I’ll discuss this issue with prime minister Gailani in forthcoming meeting,’ Official media sources have quoted president Bush as saying this. ‘Militants can capture any area in Pakistan now,’ Maulana Fazl ur Rehman has said. ‘Peace negotiations between Taliban militants in […]
Spitzer’s Economic Development Czar Steps Down
Avi Schick, the appointee of former New York governor Spitzer as president of the New York State Empire State Development Corporation, has stepped down. (New York Times, May 20, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/nyregion/20schick.html?ex=1211947200&en=964dc40db1d117db&ei=5070. Like the federal Housing and Urban Development secretary, his departure should be followed by his agency’s extinction. Both are illegitimate in my opinion as a Libertarian. (US Housing Agency […]
Bulgaria: Statehood in Crisis
by Yavor Mihaylov In early April, the crisis that had broken out as a result of the exposed corruption in the circles of the interior ministry, exacerbated even further. The public was outraged by the fact that the interior minister Rumen Petkov had meetings with the Galevi brothers, who are allegedly among the biggest mafia bosses […]