One more good reason to support David Grossman’s idea of a 48 (renewable) truce is to foil “the great provocation”…
Year: 2008
At 3:19 P.M. Sunday, the sound of an incoming missile could be heard over the telephone. And then another, along…
Long-term preparation, careful gathering of information, secret discussions, operational deception and the misleading of the public – all these stood…
LAHORE: While shifting thousands of the Pakistani troops from the trouble-ridden Pak-Afghan border to Indo-Pak border, the decision makers in…
LAHORE: Hardly a few hours before being assassinated outside the Liaqat Bagh in Rawalpindi on December 27, Benazir Bhutto was…
What do the recent shoe-throwing incident with Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, the uncertain truce in Gaza, and Lebanon’s national dialogue…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military leadership has advised President Asif Zardari to take back his statement made last month that his country…
LAHORE: The Saudi-sponsored American-British initiative to broker a peace deal between the Karzai administration and the Taliban have failed so…
From the summary: ………………………………………………………… Hezbollah did some things well, such as its use of cover and concealment, its preparation of…
“Don’t panic,” the former US ambassador to Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman, told his Lebanese friends at a conference organized jointly last…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities have busted a clandestine assassination plot being hatched by the jailed killer of American journalist Daniel…
LAHORE: The Mumbai attacker Ajmal Amir Kasab’s Faridkot village in the Depalpur district of the Pakistani Punjab has apparently been…
Translated from the Chinese by Perry Link The following text of Charter 08, signed by hundreds of Chinese intellectuals and…
LAHORE: Barely a week after launching a countrywide crackdown on the Jamaatul Daawa (JuD) in line with the UN Security…
LAHORE: The December 10, 2008 UN ban on two Pakistani charity groups — the Al-Rashid Trust and the Al-Akhtar Trust…
LAHORE: The much-trumpeted crackdown by the Pakistan government on the Jamaatul Daawa and its leadership is nothing more than an…
by Amir Mir LAHORE: In a major development, Pakistan’s leading English daily ‘Dawn’ has confirmed for the first time the…
The investigation into the 2005 assassination of the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri is nearing its end—and a trial in…
Rarely a day goes by without someone offering new advice to the incoming Obama administration on how to deal with…
On December 14, the European Union is slated to initial an association agreement with Syria. The pact had been on…
LAHORE: While resurfacing on Thursday at a Lahore mosque after going into hiding last week in the wake of a…
LAHORE: The United Nations Security Council’s decision to ban the Jamaatul Daawa (JuD) as a global terrorist organization could only…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities have placed strict restrictions on the movement of Maulana Masood Azhar, the chief of the outlawed…
LAHORE: Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, alleged mastermind of the recent attack on Mumbai, has reportedly been arrested in an army raid on…
You have to hand it to Michel Aoun, he never goes half-way. Here was everyone else staying in Syria for…
At first sight – Prof Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and currently the ameer of the…
LAHORE: While demanding the extradition of 20 people from Pakistan for their alleged involvement in terrorist activities, the Indian authorities…
LAHORE: Fearing a possible Indian Air Force attack on the headquarters of the Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Prof Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the…
LAHORE: A low profile terrorist attack in the Indian administered Jammu & Kashmir, orchestrated by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)…
LAHORE: The recent Mumbai carnage and the Indian allegations of a Pakistani hand in the deadly attacks have stuck yet…
THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL’S 2025 PROJECT * From the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council “Global Trends 2025: A Transformed…
According to press reports, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will set March as the deadline for work to begin…
LAHORE: A spokesman for Prof Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of the Pakistan-based Kashmiri militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), who now…
LAHORE: The recent disbandment of the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence’s notorious political cell shows Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani’s…
Rather than merely taking advantage of rural popularity, it is rural ways that are influencing the Muslim Brotherhood, writes Hossam…
LAHORE: The November 21 death of the British terror plot suspect Rashid Rauf in the North Waziristan area in a…
LAHORE: A high-level probe ordered by the Pakistani authorities into the 2007 dramatic escape of the British terror plot suspect…
A defense establishment paper recommends making contingency plans to attack Iran, reaching an agreement with Syria that includes leaving the…
LAHORE: Pakistan’s top Islamic advisory body’s recent recommendation to the federal government to drastically amend the outdated divorce laws and…
High on the agenda of the November 27-28 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors (BOG)…
George W. Bush: good, bad, and ugly A large part of the hope accompanying the election of Barack Obama as…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities investigating the November 19, 2008 murder of Major General (r) Ameer Faisal Alvi, the former General…
LAHORE: Hymenoplasty or the restoration of hymen in a female body has now turned out to be the latest fad…
(Photo: US Aid Worker Stephen Vance gunned down in Peshawar) LAHORE: The rising number of terrorist attacks on foreigners as…
Summary: The real decision-maker in Iran is Supreme Leader Khamenei not President Ahmadinejad. Blaming Iran’s problems on President Ahmadinejad inaccurately…
On November 6, Robert Satloff, Patrick Clawson, and David Makovsky addressed a Policy Forum luncheon at The Washington Institute. Dr.…
LAHORE: Despite being sentenced to death six years ago by an Anti Terrorism Court for the gruesome murder of American…
On November 6, Robert Satloff, Patrick Clawson, and David Makovsky addressed a Policy Forum luncheon at The Washington Institute. Dr.…
Lahore: The Pakistani cricket team that was once known as a hot band of happy-go-lucky stars has gone through a…
For two days, from November 4-6, Islamic and Catholic experts are meeting at the Vatican, after years of chilly relations…