PolicyWatch #1557 Six weeks after the pro-West March 14 coalition defeated the Hizballah-led alliance in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, no new…
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LAHORE: The provincial government of the Pakistani Punjab’ sudden move on July 15, 2009 to dissociate itself from the Hafiz…
An appeal to the world’s conscience From the Egyptian writer and academic researcher of Islamic Affairs Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El…
The least that could be said, in the sunny morn after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s emphatic reelection as president of Iran, was…
LAHORE: The 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks were first conceived on the third floor of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters…
In this report, reprinted with permission from the proceedings of a conference of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Washington Institute…
LAHORE: The Pakistan government has handed over to Indian authorities the evidence of the alleged involvement of the Indian intelligence…
Woman feared she would be stoned after giving birth to an illegitimate child in Britain By Robert Verkaik, Home Affairs…
LAHORE: The under trial Pakistani national Ajmal Kasab’s surprised move on Monday to plead guilty before an Indian court of…
Australian report predicted violence in Indonesia By TANALEE SMITH The Associated Press ADELAIDE, Australia — An Australian think tank predicted…
PolicyWatch #1552: Special Forum Report Featuring Robert Jordan and Simon Henderson On July 13, 2009, Ambassador Robert Jordan and Simon…
As the world watches events in Iran, it is important to assess the moral and legal grounds for change. Democratic…
While a handful of marginal clerics and religious groups dispute the official result of Iran’s recent presidential election, the Shiite…
Home Monographs and Special Studies Who Rules Iran: The Structure of Power in the Islamic Republic Wilfried Buchta Format: Softcover,…
When I returned from covering the Iranian elections recently, I was surprised to find my email box filled with progressive…
LAHORE: The increasing sense of insecurity among the American diplomatic staff stationed in Pakistan can be gauged from the fact…
LAHORE: The unending spate of lethal suicide bombings across Pakistan has killed 465 people and injured 1121 in 36 attacks…
In a SPIEGEL interview, Iranian theologian and philosopher Mohsen Kadivar discusses Tehran’s path towards a military dictatorship, how the country’s…
Few weeks after the Lebanese parliamentarian elections, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Council of Development and Reconstruction…
PressTV- Detained Newsweek reporter comes clean Newsweek’s Canadian-Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari has admitted to giving “false and biased” reports about…
Human bombs used to be mere puzzling headlines for the people of Pakistan till the 9/11 terror attacks, a part…
In response to Iran’s powerful Guardian Council’s proposal to set up a special body to recount the ballots of the…
Nooshabeh Amiri nooshabehamiri(at)yahoo.com Following rumors that Saeed Hajjarian – pro-democracy advocate, editor and former advisor to reformist President Mohammad Khatami…
More than a hundred Iranian reformists have been arrested in the turmoil following Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hastily declared victory in the…
Do you hear the silence from the Arab world over events in Iran? Let’s start with Arab leaders, who are…
. LAHORE: The June 23 murder of Qari Zainuddin Mehsud, a Pakistani Taliban commander and the arch rival of the…
PolicyWatch #1537: Special Forum Report On On June 16, 2009, Mehdi Khalaji, Mohsen Sazegara, Patrick Clawson, and Michael Singh addressed…
Khatami’s Deputy and Advisor in Jail The house to house arrests that followed Monday’s massive demonstrations against the June 12…
On Monday, June 15, more than 1 million people marched in the streets of Tehran to support Mir Hossein Moussavi…
LAHORE: Denying that Maulana Masood Azhar, the founder of the pro-Kashmir jehadi group, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), has been arrested from the…
The New York Times convened an online panel of four Middle East experts to discuss the Obama administration’s response to…
Omid Memarian Abdolkarim Lahidji, vice president of the Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) told Rooz in an…
LAHORE: The American pressure on India to resume the stalled peace talks with Pakistan and New Delhi’s readiness to reduce…
Dozens of Tehran University students were beaten and severely wounded, requiring hospitalization, following an attack by plain-clothed vigilantes and the…
Large-scale manipulation of Friday’s presidential election in Iran was to be expected, but few could have predicted that Iran’s supreme…
THEHRAN a political coup By MUHAMMAD SAHIMI (TEHRAN 11P.M) In an interview, Mr. Mohsen Makhbalbaf, the distinguish movie director and…
LAHORE: The June 11 statement by the CIA Director Leon Panetta that al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is hiding in…
Although the world has been focused on the sensational politics in Lebanon and Iran, Morocco this week will hold its…
LAHORE: The Pakistani intelligence sleuths investigating the June 10, 2009 deadly suicide attack in Peshawar, which completely destroyed the Pearl…
PolicyWatch #1530 With Iran’s presidential campaign culminating on June 12, all three challengers to incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad are expressing increased…
Following the discovery of a “Fatwa” (“religious decree”) issued by ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi which sanctions cheating in Friday’s presidential election…
LAHORE: Groaning under rising pressure from China, the Pakistani authorities have extradited to Beijing ten arrested militants of the pro-independence…
Saman Rasoulpour Rooz spoke with the leader of the Sunni minority faction in Iran’s national assembly, the Majlis, Jalal Mahmoudzadeh,…
As the Hizballah-led March 8 coalition campaigns ahead of Lebanon’s June 7 elections, the group has been forced to contend…
Many American political analysts think that the problem the new American administration faces in Yemen relates mainly to the fate…
Combining the roles of bridge builder and strategist, President Barack Obama delivered a wide-ranging 55-minute speech to the world’s Muslims…
ISLAMABAD: The non-Muslim communities living in the Khyber Agency tribal area of Pakistan, including Sikhs, Hindus and Christians, have now…
On June 7, Lebanon goes to the polls to elect a new government. All told, 587 candidates are competing for…
One of Iran’s four presidential candidates, Mohsen Rezaei, clarifies his foreign policy agenda and his position on the Holocaust. “We…
VANCOUVER – Protests have erupted this week in three Iranian cities after former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami made degrading comments…