Pakistan rushes to match Indian missile technology
LAHORE: Though Pakistan is vehemently denying modifying American-made Harpoon anti-ship missiles to target India, sources…
Monthly Archives: August, 2009
ISI funding case to blemish top Pakistani politicians
LAHORE: The former chief justice of Pakistan Saeeduz Zaman Siddiqui’s statement that the Inter Services…
Syria Clenches Its Fist
ForeignPolicy.com, August 28, 2009 Assad to Obama: Thanks but no thanks. Early last week, nearly…
Hakeemullah Mehsud: A Profile in Terror
LAHORE: The selection of Commander Hakeemullah Mehsud as the new ameer of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan…
Musharraf’s trial for Bugti murder a must to keep Pakistan intact
LAHORE: The reluctance of the federal government to take up the August 2006 assassination of…
Obama’s Mideast vision: Confusion
There is great discomfort these days among those who backed Barack Obama’s “new” approach to…
PRINCE TURKI AL-FAISAL: Don’t Be Crude
Why Barack Obama’s energy-dependence talk is just demagoguery. AUGUST 24, 2009 “Energy independence” has become…
Americans to buy Peshawar Pearl Continental Hotel
LAHORE: Despite the June 10, 2009 death of five members of the infamous American security…
How Ahmadinejad Stole an Election — And How He Can Fix It
By Mehdi Khalaji and Robert Pastor ForeignPolicy.com, August 20, 2009 Rarely does a country have…
Dancing girls of Swat are out of business
LAHORE: Families of dancing girls at Banr Bazaar in Mingora city, the capital of the…
Manmohan Singh playing to the gallery to appease domestic audience
LAHORE: While Pakistan government has castigated Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that “possible terrorist…
Jaswant Singh’s expulsion from BJP revives old controversy over Jinnah
LAHORE: Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, whose true character had become lost through the chapters…
Prisoner of opinion: Mohammad Ali Abtahi
Mohammad Ali Abtahi cuts a strange figure in a Tehran courtroom. His dazed and almost…
Pakistan expels American security official
LAHORE: A senior security officer of the American embassy in Islamabad who was involved in…
Dancing girls returning to Swat
LAHORE: Hundreds of the dancing girls belonging to the trouble stricken Swat district of the…
US reluctant to sign a civil nuclear accord with Pakistan
LAHORE: Despite Pakistan’s frantic efforts to conclude a civil nuclear accord with the United States…
After King Abdullah: Succession in Saudi Arabia
Policy Focus 96 The relationship between Riyadh and Washington affects a range of U.S. foreign…
Militarization of the Iranian Judiciary
Widespread reports suggest that Sadeq Larijani, a young and inexperienced cleric with close ties to…
US to build ‘super embassy’ in Islamabad on the pattern or Iraq
LAHORE: In a controversial move which has created ripples in Islamabad, the Obama administration has…
Lebanon’s emancipation: an obituary?
Allow me, despairing reader, to cite from Bashar Assad’s speech of March 5, 2005, before…
Baitullah made a scapegoat in Bhutto murder case?
LAHORE: Despite being tagged by the Pervez Musharraf regime as the mastermind of formemr Pakistani…
Is Baitullah dead or alive?
LAHORE: Conflicting reports continue to pour in from the trouble-ridden South Waziristan tribal agency about…
Dissecting the Beau Rivage turnaround
Did Walid Jumblatt really need to drop his political bomb last Sunday at the Beau…
Cairo Joins the Battle against Tehran
In June 2009, an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine sailed from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea…
The Rise of Ayatollah Moqtada al-Sadr
BY BABAK RAHIMI | JULY 27, 2009 When Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was a young…
Interview: Mehdi Khalaji (from Foreign Policy)
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JULY 27, 2009 Born in Qom, Iran, as the son of…
Indo-Pak dossier drama continues
LAHORE: It is statecraft with a dash of magic-realism, rendering impossible for most to distinguish…