Source: Iran’s official “Press TV”: As Iran heads toward the June presidential polls, Reformist hopefuls and Principlist incumbents clash over…
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LAHORE: Of the 60 cross border predator strikes carried out by the Afghanistan-based American drones in Pakistan between January 14,…
By Maya Sela Amos Oz is first mentioned in Haaretz in October 1961: “Preparations continue for the publication of a…
by Jon Lee Anderson Ever since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first ran for President of Iran, four years ago, he has shown…
A new law signed by President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan requires Shiite women to ask their husband’s permission before leaving…
On April 9, Algerians go to the polls to elect a head of state. A constitutional amendment engineered by two-term…
LAHORE: The Obama administration’s March 26, 2009 decision to announce a $5 million head money reward for information on Pakistani…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities investigating the March 30, 2009 terrorist attack on the Manawan police training school in Lahore, the…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities investigating the 30/3 bloody assault on the Police Training School in Manawan on the outskirts of…
Introduction Saudi King Abdullah’s sudden decision to promote the interior minister Prince Nayef, 76, his half-brother from the rival Sudairi…
By MArc Lynch Mohammed Mehdi Akef, the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, has just announced that he will not…
20/03/2009 A Group of Nobel Prize Laureates, leading human rights activists and Members of Parliament from several countries joined an…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities have apparently decided to shift on India the blame for the 3/3 Lahore terrorist attack on…
On a cold, damp night last November, a Mercedes sedan looped through the semicircular drive of the St. James Paris,…
Executive summary The findings set out in this report are based on the responses that we received to a survey…
LAHORE: The monster of al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked Islamic militancy keeps spreading its tentacles in Pakistan by establishing an effective modus…
The reconstruction period that followed the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War can be instructive for those seeking to curtail Hamas’s political influence…
Lebanon’s wine production dates back to biblical times, but its modern winemaking is only starting to attract attention — impressing…
King Abdullah, 85, is racing to reform Saudi Arabia. How much can he accomplish—and will it last? Christopher Dickey NEWSWEEK…
PolicyWatch #1494: Special Forum Report Andrew J. Tabler and Magnus Norell On March 13, 2009, Andrew Tabler, Magnus Norell, and…
LAHORE: The restoration of the deposed superior court judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, may not be the end of…
On March 13, 2009, Andrew Tabler, Magnus Norell, and John Hannah addressed a special Policy Forum luncheon at The Washington…
On February 24, violent confrontations between Shiite pilgrims and the Saudi religious police and security forces took place at the…
LAHORE: Kudos to the Pakistani Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani for honouring his repeated pledge,…
LAHORE: The historic restoration of the Pakistani superior court judges who had been sacked by Musharraf in 2007, ostensibly in…
This Saturday, Lebanon’s pro-West March 14 coalition officially kicks off its election campaign in Beirut. Two weeks ago, the Hizballah-led…
By Matthias Schulz Roman engineers chipped an aqueduct through more than 100 kilometers of stone to connect water to cities…
LAHORE: Amidst worsening political crisis in Pakistan, Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani has finally stepped in and asked Prime Minister…
Yesterday we encountered a strange moment of serendipity. Dr Lateef Rashid, invited those of us working on the Global Justice…
You have to wonder if, during their talks last week in Damascus, the acting US assistant secretary of state for…
Reports from Damascus say Syria’s leading dissident is on his deathbed. Riad Seif, 62 and suffering from prostate cancer, has…
LAHORE: As the political crisis in Pakistan has touched new heights in the wake of the PPP government’s latest warning…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities have warned the defiant Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif to refrain from raising rebellious…
LAHORE: With President Asif Ali Zardari busy settling political scores with former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif even as Pakistan fast…
Dear Woman, I know that in reality you cannot move on your own, you still cannot have the initiative, and…
If Pakistan now poses a greater threat to the world than Afghanistan, the US is responsible for setting it on…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities investigating Tuesday’s bloody attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore are trying to…
LAHORE: While many of the hawks in Pakistan have already pointed the finger of suspicion at India for masterminding the…
LAHORE: Pakistan’s embattled President Asif Zardari is extremely worried as the political fallouts of the Sharif brothers’ disqualification by the…
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor The Observer, Sunday 1 March 2009 Hamas, the militant Palestinian organisation, attempted to conduct secret…
This week, the State Department’s top Middle East diplomat is slated to meet with Syrian ambassador to the United States…
LAHORE: The Pakistan politics has taken a dramatic turn as a Supreme Court verdict, declaring former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif…
LAHORE: The much-trumpeted peace deal reached between the government and the leader of the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (Movement for Enforcement of Islamic…
Why there’s less to King Abdullah’s Valentine’s Day reform than meets the eye. Three and a half years after succeeding…
By Amir Mir LAHORE: Days after the Pakistan government and the Taliban inked a peace deal in Swat following a…
LAHORE: Barely a year after the public voted out the Musharraf regime and reinstated faith in a democratically elected government,…
On February 14, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced a range of new ministerial, legal, and bureaucratic appointments. Surprising in…
LAHORE: The Pakistan government’s decision to sign a peace agreement with Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the ameer of the defunct Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi,…
LAHORE: The Pakistan government’s decision to sign a peace deal with the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) by enforcing the ‘Sharai Nizam-e-Adal Regulation’…
(Ahwazi friends had made an Arabic translation of the Rooz interview which metransparent published on February 12. Follow link). Wearing…