LAHORE: Although Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has denied its involvement in Thursday’s twin suicide attacks targeting the historic shrine of revered…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Ahmed Rashid The Pakistani media is in a state of apoplexy about the would-be Times Square bomber, the Pakistani-born US…
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…
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,…
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…
“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…