GVF — Just days before the national day for journalists, Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard met with…
Year: 2010
Yesterday, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) soldiers opened fire on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit removing a tree near the…
By Ulrike Putz in southern Lebanon Did Israeli soldiers really just want to move a tree? Who shot first and…
The death of Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah brought on a veritable riptide of praise for the departed cleric from all…
Dietl, who now lives in a tranquil village near Munich, spent 11 years as an agent for the West German…
Lebanon is caught up in a game of political billiards these days, each side playing a second ball against the…
The surprising and speedy crash of General Stanley McCrystal has been seen in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the wider region as…
If there were doubts about whether Hizbullah participated in the assassination of the former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, for many…
July 16, 2010 (New York) – President Bashar al-Asad has not delivered on his promises to increase public freedoms and…
“What we see is a military government, not the rule of the Shiite jurist.” –Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri’s 2009 open…
By Erich Follath and Dieter Bednarz In a SPIEGEL interview, Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mohamed ElBaradei, 68, discusses the…
A perennial shortcoming in America’s interactions with the Middle East is that they tend to emerge from insular discussions. Policy…
The Palestinian side, which has suffered for decades from the Israeli occupation, can demonstrate moral superiority over the occupier by…
For Washington, the death this week of Lebanon’s most prominent and respected Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah,…
On a hilltop overlooking Israel’s former occupation zone in south Lebanon, Hezbollah has built what the international press has dubbed…
Amend Penal Provisions That Criminalize Defamation and Libel (Beirut, July 8, 2010) – The Lebanese government should immediately drop criminal…
Hizbullah has been terribly excitable in recent weeks. It has threatened, condemned, demanded, and warned, all suggesting the party is…
LAHORE: Although Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has denied its involvement in Thursday’s twin suicide attacks targeting the historic shrine of revered…
By the time you read this article, President Barack Obama should have decided whether to keep General Stanley McChrystal on…
LAHORE: While backing the Karzai government’s efforts to reach a negotiated settlement with the Afghan Taliban led by Mullah Mohammad…
Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the…
LAHORE: Contrary to the warmth that marked the Indo-Pak foreign secretaries’ talks in Islamabad one day ago, the interior ministers…
LAHORE: The five Americans convicted by an anti-terrorism court in Sargodha on Thursday to 10 years in prison on terrorism…
Washington – June 24, 2010 Yesterday’s sentencing of lawyer and human rights activist Muhannad Al Hassani to three years in…
It may be that the whole world is dazzlingly two-faced, but we should nevertheless focus on the hypocrites in our…
LAHORE: Pakistan and India have agreed in principle to broaden coordination with each other in order to resolve long standing…
LAHORE: The Pakistan government has formally raised objections over some findings of the United Nations’ inquiry Commission into the December…
As expected, the summit between the Lebanese and Syrian presidents, Michel Sleiman and Bashar Assad, yielded statements redolent with platitudes…
Fafo poll conducted in West Bank and Gaza finds that 89% Palestinians support PA legislative elections this year, 84 %…
LAHORE: Fresh findings by a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) of the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), which was formed by…
ISLAMABAD: Despite being declared a banned organization by the United Nations (UN) Security Council and the Pakistan govenrment in the…
LAHORE: Two weeks after the Supreme Court of Pakistan dismissed the federal government’s appeal challenging the release of Hafiz Saeed…
Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to allow Israeli warplanes to use its airspace in…
One year on from Iran’s disputed election, former members of the elite Revolutionary Guard speak out Angus Stickler and Maggie…
Mutafa Ismael covered turkish affairs for Middle East Transparent. A summary of his case The Second Military Prosecutor in Military…
By this time, you will have heard what happened to former White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who resigned this week…
LAHORE: “I am an Ahmadi, My name is Khan. There are four million of me in Pakistan. This Islamic Republic…
David Schenker, (director of the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy) is of the…
Literature is not officially censored in Egypt; the scholars of al-Azhar are entitled to scour books on religion for objectionable…
A few hours after revealing the arrest of Libyan prime minister, Mr. Baghdadi al Mahmoudi , and two of his…
The massacre of over 80 worshippers at two mosques in my hometown of Lahore by Pakistani Taliban militants has exposed,…
The analytic mind who holds the political security portfolio in the “didn’t know, didn’t hear, didn’t see” government of Israel…
As Israel stumbles to limit the fallout from its foolish, violent handling of the Gaza flotilla incident, a larger question…
The Ghosts of Martyr’s Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle By Michael Young (Simon & Schuster, 295 pages,…
LAHORE: At least 65 people were killed and over 70 others injured, 22 of them seriously, when two separate groups…
LAHORE: Pakistani human rights activists are perturbed by the erosion of minority rights, particularly the alarming frequency with which cases…
LAHORE: A militant friendly Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday dismissed the federal government’s appeal, filed a year ago in…
LAHORE: Following the Pakistan government’s decision of slapping a complete ban on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Wikipedia etc to block access…
We often hear about the bleak situation of the Hebrew spoken by students in the schools. In a document published…
In October 2010 the Catholic Bishops and Patriarchs of the Middle East will convene in Rome for a Synod to…