Nationalism is a disease that has infected mankind ever since it gathered in tribes, color and races. And when mankind…
Month: March 2010
Nationalism is a disease that has infected mankind ever since it gathered in tribes, color and races. And when mankind…
LAHORE: The recent unprecedented meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the representative of the Hezb-e-Islami chief Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was…
With election results showing a close race between PM Maliki’s list and the Iraqi National Alliance list headed by Iyad…
Some will argue that the United Kingdom’s expulsion this week of an Israeli diplomat, by most accounts a Mossad agent,…
Reading a new book about Egypt’s overblown “marriage crisis” at the beginning of the 20th century suggests that similar fears…
Iraqi voters seem to have surprised most observers. Maliki didn’t get the expected over 120 seats, Allawi seems to be…
The recent spate of gory suicide bombings in Lahore, the iconic city of the ruling Punjabi establishment, suggests that after…
There was a revealing moment last Saturday in the interview conducted by Al-Jazeera’s Ghassan bin Jiddu with Walid Jumblatt, which…
While the ongoing Pakistani crackdown against the Quetta Shura Taliban (QST) led by Mullah Mohammad Omar is being seen by…
LAHORE: An additional number of 216 Pakistanis have so far been killed in 15 incidents of suicide bombings across Pakistan…
US sources in Baghdad revealed to our Baghdad correspondent that the difference between the number of seats obtained by the…
Um Nour checked her watch. It was close to midnight and my guide to the Iraqi refugee underworld in Damascus…
LAHORE: The March 8 suicide bombing in Lahore, the provincial capital of Pakistan’i Punjab, is believed to have been carried…
Last Saturday (February 7, 2010) a demonstration against violence towards women in Arab society was held in Nazareth, at the…
“Should we expect a new September 11 attack soon after the retreat of US forces from Afghanistan, or even earlier?”…
Why is it that only days before Iraq’s parliamentary elections, we’re getting no sense of what they mean for the…
LAHORE: The recent killing of Abdul Haq al-Turkistani, the chief of Turkistani Islamic Party (TIP), a Chinese Muslim separatist movement,…
Here is a civics lesson about the Zionist heritage, which has recently basked in the limelight of another government decision.…
On February 26, Syrian president Bashar al-Asad hosted Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad and Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah for a dinner…
LAHORE: In a major policy shift, the powerful Pakistani intelligence establishment seems to have finally decided to abandon the former…