By Faisal Shakeel

The Nato-led Isaf’s incursions into Pakistan’s tribal areas cannot be justified either on the basis of the doctrine of ‘hot pursuit’ or through the concept of engagement in a ‘combat zone’.

By Kalsoom Lakhani

This week, investigative reporter/author Bob Woodward‘s Obama’s Wars made its highly anticipated debut in bookstores. The book highlights more of what many of us already knew – that the government is deeply divided over the current Afghanistan policy (cough, Stanley McChrystal‘s interview with Rolling Stone).

By Steve Graham

The Merseyside deployment is merely one of the first, tentative step within a much wider push by arms contractors and security and technology corporations. Supported by Governments, these are working extremely hard to ensure that the deployment of aerial drones for policing purposes quickly saturates UK airspace and becomes completely normal and taken for granted. We thus face a pivotal moment in the evolution of civilian surveillance by electronic means, both in the UK and other western democracies. This moment raises four particular concerns.

By Shyema Sajjad

Pakistan just suffered an enormous natural disaster and now it is on its way to experience a colossal man-made disaster – or rather government-made disaster: the higher education crisis.