LAHORE: Yet another Pakistani national belonging to the Sikh community who was kidnapped by the Taliban militants from Peshawar, the…
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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…
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…
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…
“Should we expect a new September 11 attack soon after the retreat of US forces from Afghanistan, or even earlier?”…
LAHORE: The recent killing of Abdul Haq al-Turkistani, the chief of Turkistani Islamic Party (TIP), a Chinese Muslim separatist movement,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
In December, the Lebanese Web site Qifa Nabki featured a satirical “news story” discussing U.S. arms transfers to Lebanon. According…