When President Obama speaks to the world’s Muslims from Cairo this week, he’ll touch, again, on the themes of respect…
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June 2 (Bloomberg) — Deep in the Arabian desert, hundreds of guests celebrate the birth of a city. The Saudi…
LAHORE: Rejecting the Pakistani government’s contention that Jamaatul Daawa (JuD) ameer Hafiz Mohammad Saeed had been put under house arrest…
Five die as the Zahedan subsidiary of Mehr Financial and Credit institute goes up in flames in the backdrop of…
On June 3, Iran will mark the twentieth anniversary of Ali Khamenei’s appointment as the leader of Iran. While international…
LAHORE: The growing terrorist activities of the Pakistan-based anti-Shia militant organization called Jundullah or Soldiers of God, threatens not only…
By SAM DAGHER KARBALA, Iraq — Over just two days, about 80 Iranian pilgrims were killed in April in suicide…
“Islam and Dissent: Abdolkarim Soroush, Religious Politics and Democratic Reform” by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi Ian Chesley May 27th, 2009 Islam and…
PolicyWatch #1523 is the second in a two-part series on President Obama’s trip to Egypt on June 4 and examines…
PolicyWatch #1522 is the first in a two-part series on President Obama’s trip to Egypt on June 4 and focuses…
A bomb planted in a mosque in a southeastern Iranian city near the border with Pakistan and Afghanistan has reportedly…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities investigating the 27/5 bloody suicide attack in Lahore believe the actual target of the bomber was…
By Souhail Karam, Reuters RIYADH – Saudi Arabia’s religious police said on Monday they would sue newspapers for defamation after…
Land acquisitions are on the increase in Africa and other continents, raising the risk, if not made properly, that poor…
LAHORE: Commander Ilyas Kashmiri, the chief of Azad Kashmir chapter of Al-Qaeda-linked jehadi organisation Harkatul Jehadul Islami (HUJI), has been…
By Erich Follath The United Nations special tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri has reached…
A Human Rights Watch Delegation Visited Fathi Al-Jahmi Three Weeks Ago May 21, 2009 (New York) – The death of…
May 2009 Introduction by Front Line: This is a summary of a study conducted by Mazen Darwish from the Syrian…
LAHORE: The recent claim by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), an American arms control organization, that Pakistan…
LAHORE: It was the Pakistani defense cooperation with Sri Lanka as one of the largest suppliers of high-tech military equipment…
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about writer and journalist Michel Kilo, who was released from Adra prison in Damascus…
Kuwait’s 350,000 or so eligible voters — both men and women — go to the polls this Saturday, May 16,…
LAHORE: Although Pakistan currently faces a serious internal threat from al-Qaeda and Taliban linked militants, many amongst its intelligentsia and…
In the course of the ninth presidential elections in Iran in 2005, prior to Mehdi Karubi’s quip that dosing for…
Former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang’s secret journals were smuggled out of China and are to be published May 19th, for…
Pakistan is close to the brink, perhaps not to a meltdown of the government, but to a permanent state of…
Israeli government ministers and Knesset members who will help make the decision about whether to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities do…
The Washington Post reports that a “former CIA high-value detainee, who provided bogus information that was cited by the Bush…
LAHORE: Although a charge sheet filed by the Pakistani police in the November 2008 gruesome murder of Major General (retd)…
May 11, 2009 (New York) – The Libyan authorities should carry out a full and transparent investigation of the reported…
LAHORE: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the former prime minister of Afghanistan and the chief of the Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), once favoured by…
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s central bank governor said economic growth in the country could exceed 6% this year if parliamentary elections…
Hezbollah militants display arms and an image of Hassan Nasrallah. (Credit: AFP Photo/Mahmoud Zayat/Newscom)’Yes, sometimes I go into the room…
Abdolkarim Soroush is one of the most influential religious thinkers to emerge from post-revolutionary Iran. He is an influential proponent…
LAHORE: The number of Sikhs being displaced in Pakisan by Taliban and being forced to take shelter at Gurdwara Punja…
In the southern Iraqi city, poetry and music have returned since Iraqi forces wrested control from Shiite extremists last year.…
LAHORE: In view of the rising tension between Washington and Islamabad, Pakistani Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has decided…
LAHORE: Over 300 Pakistani Sikhs, who were recently forced by the Taliban militants in Buner district of the Orakzai Agency…
LAHORE: The apprehensions being expressed by senior American government officials about the possibility of al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked militias in Pakistan…
(London, April 28, 2009) – Syrian authorities should immediately free Dr. Kamal Labwani, a prominent political and human rights activist,…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities have further tightened the security of the five Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operatives who are being kept at…
PolicyWatch #1508 U.S. and European observers believe that Israel’s new government will seek peace with Damascus in an attempt to…
Metransparent exclusive: Highly placed sources at Iran’s Pasdaran forces have disclosed to Middle East Transparent that that Iran’s Supreme Guide…
By Amir Mir: Mashal Books, Lahore 2008, Pp306; Price Rs 700 Amir Mir has developed into an informed commentator on…
PolicyWatch #1507 In the last week, Egypt has moved against Iran and its allies in the Arab world. Cairo arrested…
Special to Shaffaf Samer Marchi, 18, a twelfth grader at the American Community School in Beirut, conducted this interview with…
ADVERTISEMENTOutraged human rights groups are calling the decision by a Saudi court to — not once, but twice — refuse…
U.S. special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell is scheduled to visit Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, the Persian…
LAHORE: The British authorities have sought intelligence cooperation from the Pakistani agencies for the arrest and extradition of Rashid Rauf,…
LAHORE: The ongoing spate of deadly suicide bombings across Pakistan has killed 332 people in 20 deadly attacks which were…