Ahmed Rashid The Pakistani media is in a state of apoplexy about the would-be Times Square bomber, the Pakistani-born US…
Year: 2010
By MICHEL COUSINS | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: In an attack on US policy in the Middle East, former Saudi ambassador…
LAHORE: Having an elite class family background, an American college degree and a handsome white collar job, even a cursory…
LAHORE: Amidst endless American drone strikes and bullying statements coming from the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking Pakistan…
by Hugh Eakin, Alisa Roth Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East by Deborah Amos…
Press release From the House of Folklore – The House of Diversity – Sana’a The House of Folklore (HoF) in…
A rational country would have done the arithmetic long ago and understood that by continuing to hold on to the…
Posted by Laura Secor Yesterday morning, I had a rare opportunity to sit down with a man many see as…
In late March, reports emerged in the Kuwaiti press that Syria had transferred Scud missiles to Hizballah. One month on,…
Washington seems listless these days when it comes to the Middle East. The Obama administration is in power but doesn’t…
LAHORE: Faisal Shehzad, an American national of the Pakistani origin, who is the accused in New York’s failed bomb plot…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities investigating the March 25, 2010 abduction and subsequent assassination of the former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)…
LAHORE: The Asian Tigers’ demand for the release of some key commanders of the Afghan Taliban, including Mullah Mohammad Omar’s…
This week’s visit to Libya by an Israeli Arab delegation signifies a loss of both political and moral orientation. The…
“Unity or death” (al-wahdah aw al-mawt) – that is the slogan written next to the picture of Yemen’s President Ali…
United Nations Inquiry Commission report into Pakistan’s twice-elected former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s murder has put Musharraf regime in the…
LAHORE: A little known Pakistani militant group calling itself Asian Tigers has claimed responsibility for the March 25, 2010 kidnapping…
There is growing alarm at the serious allegations of major arms transfers to Lebanon through its land borders. I am…
LAHORE: The UN Inquiry Commission states that during the course of Bhutto murder investigations, it encountered abundant confirmation of the…
LAHORE: The United Nations Inquiry Commission has simply trashed the findings of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Punjab…
LAHORE: In its just released inquiry report into the assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto, the UN Inquiry Commission has come…
LAHORE: A three-member United Nations Commission investigating the events and circumstances surrounding the 27 December 2007 assassination of Pakistan’s twice-elected…
ForeignPolicy.com, April 14, 2010 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak sent officials in Damascus and Washington scrambling when he claimed Tuesday…
LAHORE: As Pakistan and the world wait for the UN report on Benazir Bhutto’s assassination set to be released on…
In his book “What’s Left,” the British author Nick Cohen quotes a onetime Foreign Office official as saying, “All isms…
LAHORE: Yet another Pakistani national belonging to the Sikh community who was kidnapped by the Taliban militants from Peshawar, the…
No one could fail to notice that it was a Syrian spokesperson, Wi’am Wahhab, who spilled the beans recently about…
Nationalism is a disease that has infected mankind ever since it gathered in tribes, color and races. And when mankind…
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…
As the greatest internal crisis the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has experienced for over half a century took place in full…
LAHORE: The reported death of al-Qaeda-linked Pakistani sectarian-turned jehadi group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s acting ameer Commander Qari Zafar in the February 24…