Peace Without Religion
Nationalism is a disease that has infected mankind ever since it gathered in tribes, color…
Monthly Archives: March, 2010
Peace Without Religion
Nationalism is a disease that has infected mankind ever since it gathered in tribes, color…
Karzai-Hekmatyar parleys motivated by Americans
LAHORE: The recent unprecedented meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the representative of the…
A Liberal, Secularist “Sadr” for Iraq?
With election results showing a close race between PM Maliki’s list and the Iraqi National…
Israel is losing the battle of narratives
Some will argue that the United Kingdom’s expulsion this week of an Israeli diplomat, by…
The Marriage Crisis That Wasn’t
Reading a new book about Egypt’s overblown “marriage crisis” at the beginning of the 20th…
Jim Prince on Iraq poll: the trend to compromise was true for Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds
Iraqi voters seem to have surprised most observers. Maliki didn’t get the expected over 120…
Punjab the epicenter of Taliban terrorism
The recent spate of gory suicide bombings in Lahore, the iconic city of the ruling…
Syria turns up the heat on Samir Geagea
There was a revealing moment last Saturday in the interview conducted by Al-Jazeera’s Ghassan bin…
Taliban Shura crackdown: Pakistan locking stable doors to save the studs
While the ongoing Pakistani crackdown against the Quetta Shura Taliban (QST) led by Mullah Mohammad…
Unprecedented number of suicide hits in Pakistan in the first quarter of 2010
LAHORE: An additional number of 216 Pakistanis have so far been killed in 15 incidents…
Baghdad Surprise (Shaffaf exclusive): Maliki advance over Allawi reduced to 4 seats
US sources in Baghdad revealed to our Baghdad correspondent that the difference between the number…
Dancing for Their Lives: undercover visit to an Iraqi expat nightclub in Syria
Um Nour checked her watch. It was close to midnight and my guide to the…
Lahore suicide hit: Punjabi Taliban avenge LeJ commander’s death
LAHORE: The March 8 suicide bombing in Lahore, the provincial capital of Pakistan’i Punjab, is…
The Arab Holy of Holies
Last Saturday (February 7, 2010) a demonstration against violence towards women in Arab society was…
Should we expect a new September 11 attack?
“Should we expect a new September 11 attack soon after the retreat of US forces…
Just what does Barack Obama stand for?
Why is it that only days before Iraq’s parliamentary elections, we’re getting no sense of…
Death of Chinese rebel a good omen for Pakistan
LAHORE: The recent killing of Abdul Haq al-Turkistani, the chief of Turkistani Islamic Party (TIP),…
Israel’s apartheid doesn’t stop at the West Bank
Here is a civics lesson about the Zionist heritage, which has recently basked in the…
Dinner in Damascus: What Did Iran Ask of Hizballah?
On February 26, Syrian president Bashar al-Asad hosted Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad and Hizballah leader…
Pakistan nets nine of 18 Quetta Shura members
LAHORE: In a major policy shift, the powerful Pakistani intelligence establishment seems to have finally…