Devotion and Money Tie Iranians to Iraqi City
By SAM DAGHER KARBALA, Iraq — Over just two days, about 80 Iranian pilgrims were…
Monthly Archives: May, 2009
“Islam and Dissent: Abdolkarim Soroush, Religious Politics and Democratic Reform” by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
“Islam and Dissent: Abdolkarim Soroush, Religious Politics and Democratic Reform” by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi Ian Chesley…
Obama in Cairo: Another Step toward Rapprochement?
PolicyWatch #1523 is the second in a two-part series on President Obama’s trip to Egypt…
The Egypt Speech: Obama’s Watershed Moment
PolicyWatch #1522 is the first in a two-part series on President Obama’s trip to Egypt…
Bomb blast rocks Iranian city of Zahedan, 20 people feared dead
A bomb planted in a mosque in a southeastern Iranian city near the border with…
ISI the actual target of Lahore attackers
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities investigating the 27/5 bloody suicide attack in Lahore believe the actual…
Understanding the Der Spiegel upheaval
The article published in Der Spiegel accusing Hizbullah of being behind the assassination of the…
Morals police takes aim at newspapers in Saudi Arabia
By Souhail Karam, Reuters RIYADH – Saudi Arabia’s religious police said on Monday they would…
First detailed study of large land acquisitions in Africa warns of impacts on poor rural people
Land acquisitions are on the increase in Africa and other continents, raising the risk, if…
Al-Qaeda linked Pakistani jehadi wanted to kill General Kayani
LAHORE: Commander Ilyas Kashmiri, the chief of Azad Kashmir chapter of Al-Qaeda-linked jehadi organisation Harkatul…
BREAKTHROUGH IN TRIBUNAL INVESTIGATION: New Evidence Points to Hezbollah in Hariri Murder
By Erich Follath The United Nations special tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime…
Audette Salem and the betrayal of memory
Last Saturday, Audette Salem was hit by a car, and died soon afterward in hospital.…
Libya: Libyan Dissident, Long Imprisoned, Is Dead
A Human Rights Watch Delegation Visited Fathi Al-Jahmi Three Weeks Ago May 21, 2009 (New…
Travel Ban on Activists in Syria
May 2009 Introduction by Front Line: This is a summary of a study conducted by…
Western claims about expansion of Pak nuclear sites faulty
LAHORE: The recent claim by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), an American…
Pakistan has a role in Lankan victory over LTTE
LAHORE: It was the Pakistani defense cooperation with Sri Lanka as one of the largest…
SYRIA: Journalist Michel Kilo held by intelligence services since release from prison 5 days ago
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about writer and journalist Michel Kilo, who was released…
Kuwait’s Deja Vu Election
Kuwait’s 350,000 or so eligible voters — both men and women — go to the…
Is India still Pakistan’s principle enemy?
LAHORE: Although Pakistan currently faces a serious internal threat from al-Qaeda and Taliban linked militants,…
Abdolkarim Soroosh: Some of our Clerics are no Different from the Taliban
In the course of the ninth presidential elections in Iran in 2005, prior to Mehdi…
The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang (from The Washington Post)
Former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang’s secret journals were smuggled out of China and are to…
Pakistan on the Brink
Pakistan is close to the brink, perhaps not to a meltdown of the government, but…
Here’s how Israel would destroy Iran’s nuclear program
Israeli government ministers and Knesset members who will help make the decision about whether to…
The Death of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi (from Harper’s Magazine)
The Washington Post reports that a “former CIA high-value detainee, who provided bogus information that…
Christian confusion is Lebanon’s loss
It is a sign of the confusion in Lebanon’s Christian community today, particularly the Maronite…
Lashkar-e-Toiba denies involvement in General Alvi’s murder
LAHORE: Although a charge sheet filed by the Pakistani police in the November 2008 gruesome…
HRW: Libya/US Should Investigate Death of Former CIA prisoner
May 11, 2009 (New York) – The Libyan authorities should carry out a full and…
US floats Hekmatyar-Karzai power sharing formula
LAHORE: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the former prime minister of Afghanistan and the chief of the Hizb-e-Islami…
Bank of Lebanon Sees Growth at 6% This Year Article
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s central bank governor said economic growth in the country could exceed 6%…
WAR ON TALIBAN: BATTLE TO SAVE PAKISTAN
London: Whenever President Asif Ali Zardari or Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani step out of…
The Year of the Elephant: Our cold war with Iran unfolds in Lebanon
Hezbollah militants display arms and an image of Hassan Nasrallah. (Credit: AFP Photo/Mahmoud Zayat/Newscom)’Yes, sometimes…
Interview Soroush: Enlightenment & Philosophy in Islam
Abdolkarim Soroush is one of the most influential religious thinkers to emerge from post-revolutionary Iran.…
The number of displaced Sikhs rising in Pakistani
LAHORE: The number of Sikhs being displaced in Pakisan by Taliban and being forced to…
Stability lets Basra, a city of poets, return to its roots
In the southern Iraqi city, poetry and music have returned since Iraqi forces wrested control…
Pak-US diplomatic gulf widening
LAHORE: In view of the rising tension between Washington and Islamabad, Pakistani Army Chief General…
Pakistani Sikhs being displaced by Taliban militants
LAHORE: Over 300 Pakistani Sikhs, who were recently forced by the Taliban militants in Buner…
Who is incharge of Pakistani nuclear arsenal?
LAHORE: The apprehensions being expressed by senior American government officials about the possibility of al-Qaeda…
Accountability time for UN investigators
The release of four Lebanese generals by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon considering the murder…