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PolicyWatch #1586: Special Policy Forum Report On September 18, 2009, Stephen P. Rosen and Mehdi Khalaji addressed a special Policy…
PolicyWatch #1583 On September 10, after seventy-three days of trying to formulate a government, Lebanon’s prime minister designate, Saad Hariri,…
Dears, I do believe free people around the world can help a lot to make women’s lives in Saudi Arabia…
لا يوجد شك في أن كل إعادة تأسيس فكري تبدأ بصفحة بيضاء. ولكن هذه الإعادة لا تأتي من فراغ فكري؛…
LAHORE: The reported death of the ameer of the Azad Kashmir chapter of the Harkatul Jehadul Islami (HUJI) Commander Ilyas…
PolicyWatch #1580 While the United States is concentrating on the G-20 summit and the October 1 meeting with the secretary…
LAHORE: Pakistani President Asif Zardari has finally conceded being part of an international deal to grant safe exit to a…
LAHORE: The Pakistan government has blacklisted several US journalists and non-government organizations (NGO) and banned their entry in the country…
ISLAMABAD, September 12, 2009: The American plans to build a super embassy in Islamabad on the pattern of Iraq have…
Ramadan, which began on the 22nd of August, offers an opportunity to reflect upon the surge in religious observance and…
LAHORE: Eight years after the 9/11 terror attacks and the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan by US-Allied Forces, the echoing question…
LAHORE: The September 10, 2009 surprised move by the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha…
Shortly after taking office, in a dramatic departure from Bush-era policy, President Barack Obama made good on his pledge to…
LAHORE: In a desperate bid to obstruct Asif Ali Zardari’s election as the President of Pakistan, former Prime Minister Nawaz…
LAHORE: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s September 6, 2009 statement that Sri Lankan elements had been involved in the…
LAHORE: The much trumpeted 1992 military operation in the Sindh province of Pakistan, for which the London-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement…
LAHORE: The official website of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has pulled off the names and pictures of the Pakistani…
LAHORE: The death of the Most Wanted Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone attack is unlikely to give Pakistan a…
LAHORE: The former chief justice of Pakistan Saeeduz Zaman Siddiqui’s statement that the Inter Services Intelligence dished out millions of…
ForeignPolicy.com, August 28, 2009 Assad to Obama: Thanks but no thanks. Early last week, nearly seven months to the day…
LAHORE: The selection of Commander Hakeemullah Mehsud as the new ameer of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has set alarm bells ringing…
LAHORE: The reluctance of the federal government to take up the August 2006 assassination of the Baloch nationalist leader Nawab…
Why Barack Obama’s energy-dependence talk is just demagoguery. AUGUST 24, 2009 “Energy independence” has become a byword on the American…
LAHORE: Despite the June 10, 2009 death of five members of the infamous American security agency, Blackwater Worldwide in the…
By Mehdi Khalaji and Robert Pastor ForeignPolicy.com, August 20, 2009 Rarely does a country have such a clear choice as…
LAHORE: Families of dancing girls at Banr Bazaar in Mingora city, the capital of the Swat district in the NWFP,…
LAHORE: While Pakistan government has castigated Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that “possible terrorist attacks in India were being…
LAHORE: Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, whose true character had become lost through the chapters of history, has re-emerged in…
Mohammad Ali Abtahi cuts a strange figure in a Tehran courtroom. His dazed and almost slurred diction are shocking to…
LAHORE: A senior security officer of the American embassy in Islamabad who was involved in a scuffle with a Pakistani…
LAHORE: Hundreds of the dancing girls belonging to the trouble stricken Swat district of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP),…
LAHORE: Despite Pakistan’s frantic efforts to conclude a civil nuclear accord with the United States to overcome its crippling energy…
Policy Focus 96 The relationship between Riyadh and Washington affects a range of U.S. foreign policy interests that include Iran,…
Widespread reports suggest that Sadeq Larijani, a young and inexperienced cleric with close ties to Iran’s military and intelligence agencies,…
LAHORE: In a controversial move which has created ripples in Islamabad, the Obama administration has decided to spend around one…
LAHORE: Despite being tagged by the Pervez Musharraf regime as the mastermind of formemr Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s 2007…
LAHORE: Conflicting reports continue to pour in from the trouble-ridden South Waziristan tribal agency about the fate of the most…
In June 2009, an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine sailed from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea via Egypt’s Suez Canal. Given…
BY BABAK RAHIMI | JULY 27, 2009 When Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was a young seminary student during the country’s…
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JULY 27, 2009 Born in Qom, Iran, as the son of an ayatollah, Mehdi Khalaji knows…
LAHORE: It is statecraft with a dash of magic-realism, rendering impossible for most to distinguish between truth and falsehood, facts…
When Columbia University President Lee Bollinger introduced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his school in September 2007, he denounced him…
LAHORE: Despite facing sharp criticism by the opposition parties in India for conceding the alleged Indian involvement in terrorist activities…
In a SPIEGEL interview, Tehran-based attorney and Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, 62, who is currently traveling in Europe, says the…
LAHORE: While Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik has again stated that there was no proof of the Jamaatul Daawa (JuD)…
The jury is still out on the Iranian elections of June 12, 2009. There are two key questions, one factual…
TEHRAN, July 28 (MNA) – Hojatoleslam Mohammad-Sadeq Larijani will be officially named as new judiciary chief in a ceremony scheduled…
PolicyWatch #1557 Six weeks after the pro-West March 14 coalition defeated the Hizballah-led alliance in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, no new…
LAHORE: The provincial government of the Pakistani Punjab’ sudden move on July 15, 2009 to dissociate itself from the Hafiz…