An interesting news item has appeared lately in several Arabic newspapers, including the local Al-Liwaa. Reports, citing Lebanese judicial sources,…
Year: 2010
LAHORE: The dramatic arrest of the fugitive Jundallah chief Abdolmalek Rigi by Iranian authorities hardly 24 hours after he had…
PolicyWatch #1634 Willingly or not, Dubai has been thrust onto the front line of diplomacy aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear…
LAHORE: Investigations into the February 21, 2010 beheading of an abducted Skih citizen of Pakistan in the Khyber Agency tribal…
The Lebanese government, cobbled together from disparate elements, has had a predictably fitful start. However, one headache may be looming…
LAHORE: The February 18, 2010 killing of veteran Afghan Mujahideen leader Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani’s younger son in an American drone…
LAHORE: On the heels of the much-awaited Indo-Pakistan secretary-level talks, the Indian authorities have sought intelligence sharing from Pakistan regarding…
The Independent, February 18, 2010 The appointment of Robert Ford as US Ambassador to Syria is part of the Obama…
LAHORE: The United Nations’ Inquiry Commission probing the assassination of the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto recently posed some…
Nearly 50 years ago, Yemen fought a civil war pitting the Egyptian-backed government in Sana against insurgents supported by Saudi…
LAHORE: The arrest of Afghan Taliban’s No 2 Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund from Pakistan’s commercial capital of Karachi in…
LAHORE: A fresh tussle between the Pakistani President Asif Zardari and the Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry over the appointment of…
A few hours after the official demonstration marking the February 11 anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, Supreme Leader Ali…
The debate over whether to attend the commemoration this weekend of Rafik Hariri’s assassination has divided the March 14 faithful.…
LAHORE: Describing the recent Indian offer to Pakistan for resumption of the stalled peace talks between as a calculated bait,…
LAHORE: As the Pak-US diplomatic ties touch their lowest ebb in recent times, the American Embassy in Islamabad has lodged…
LAHORE: The twin suicide attacks in Pakistani port city of Karachi on February 5 which killed 30 people seem to…
LAHORE: The recently held London conference on Afghanistan has fanned deep concerns about the willingness of western powers, including the…
LAHORE: The three American soldiers who lost their lives on Wednesday in a school bombing incident in Lower Dir district…
View the maps originally published with this article. “Over our dead bodies!” Najib Khatib shouted in Arabic as I stepped…
LAHORE: Two grandchildren of the late Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto have urged the chief justice of Pakistan to…
While Europe at the end of the 1980s was the epicenter of this ‘earthquake’, the shock waves were felt in…
LAHORE: The Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of…
LAHORE: Although a Pakistani foreign office spokesman has expressed ignorance about any Chinese move to establish military bases in Pakistan,…
When a mass murderer dies, it is usually an anticlimax. At his hanging this week, Ali Hassan al-Majid, the cousin…
There was something vaguely surrealistic in the Lebanese government’s response on Tuesday to the reservations expressed last weekend by Abou…
Allegations that the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda was behind the attempt by a Nigerian man to blow up a…
In the very cold winter of 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, returned to…
Declan Butler Iran’s scientific community is reeling after the assassination on 12 January of Masoud Alimohammadi, a particle physicist at…
WASHINGTON, DC – Iran’s clerical regime governs by a simple formula: he who is the most frightening, wins. “Victory by…
The following is a quote from a Reuters article published in the London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi on November 30: “Princess…
Officials of the Special Court of Clerics in Tehran have transferred Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Khalaji to solitary confinement in Evin…
LAHORE: In a major policy decision, the Pakistan government has made it mandatory for Pakistani missions abroad to issue visas…
Only days after it was announced that the chief investigator, Neguib “Nick” Kaldas, would soon leave the Special Tribunal for…
Four factors govern Egypt’s policy towards the Gaza Strip: 1. The Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the upholding of which is a…
On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, four agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOI) arrested Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Khalaji, father of…
Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting…
LAHORE: Investigations carried out by the Pakistani authorities into the rising incidents of suicide bombings in the Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir…
The statement released Thursday by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon announcing that its chief investigator, Naguib “Nick” Kaldas, would be…
In December, the Lebanese Web site Qifa Nabki featured a satirical “news story” discussing U.S. arms transfers to Lebanon. According…
LAHORE: The American authorities have sought from the Pakistan government an early arrest and extradition of Commander Ilyas Kashmiri, the…
In his Ashoura speech this past weekend, Hizbullah’s secretary general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, irritated many Christians. He recommended that they…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top military leadership including Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani and Inter Services Intelligence chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja…
LAHORE: Of the 45 predator strikes carried out by the American drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan in the…