LAHORE: Pakistan has finally acknowledged for the first time, almost 80 days after the Mumbai terror attacks, that they were…
Author: Sarah Akel
During a February trip to Iran, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal praised Iranian leaders for their support during the conflict in…
Author: Aram Nerguizian Read the Full Report Synopsis: The purpose of this report is to examine the force development challenges…
Detentions of Azerbaijani ethnic and human rights activists continue in Iran.Activists are arbitrarily detained without being tried or even told…
ISLAMABAD: The three member Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team probing into the Mumbai terror attacks on the basis of…
Iqbal Latif- Paris Eggs are economical, nonlethal and messy enough to spoil the day of any budding politician or businessman.…
TEL AVIV – “Are you proud of yourself for visiting Israel? Especially now?” I am an Egyptian whose country has…
The value of a woman’s life is one half of the life of a man. The testimony of two women…
Lahore– Pakistan’s enormous madrassa (religious seminaries) sector has been at the centre of debates on extremism and radicalization of society…
In recent days, Washington has experienced a media blitz by the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, including an op-ed in the…
LAHORE: “The Fluttering Flag of Jehad”, a sensational book by senior Pakistani journalist Amir Mir, has hit the news stands,…
The Gaza war lasted 3 weeks with a terrible toll of 1300 dead. In its new report HRW reveals that…
Arab support for the Palestinians has been the bedrock of Arab diplomacy for decades, but the recent Israeli military action…
LAHORE: Having moved against the educational network of Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaatul Daawa, recently declared a terrorist organization by the United…
LAGORE: The Friday killing of 18 Pakistanis in a cross border missile strike fired inside the Waziristan region of Pakistan…
PolicyWatch #1460 On January 2, in the midst of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, Jordan’s King Abdullah removed…
LAHORE: Fifteen months after the launching of a military operation in the lush-green picturesque valley of Swat by the Pakistan…
More than two weeks into the Israeli-Hamas war, the eyes of the world are narrowly focused on the crisis in…
Synopsis: The Israeli-Hamas War, and there is little else that it can be called, has now lasted two weeks. Israeli…
LAHORE: The chief operational commander of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, arrested on December 10 by the Pakistani authorities…
Politicians who qualify as statesmen are few and far between. Statesmanship requires poise and vision, so that detachment and far-sightedness…
Wajahat Ali sent the following letter with his Gaza article published in today’s Guardian. We just could not resist the…
LAHORE: The 70-page Indian dossier provided to Pakistan last week as evidence of the Lashkar-e-Toiba’s role in the Mumbai terror…
LAHORE: Despite having confirmed that Ajmal Kasab is a Pakistani national, the authorities in Islamabad seem to have taken half…
LAHORE: The sacking of Pakistani National Security Advisor Major General ® Mahmood Durrani by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani for…
Since the aerial attack on Gaza began, Hamas has sought to suppress individuals it believes endanger the group’s fight against…
Iranian hardliners are using the Gaza Strip crisis as an opportunity to restate their claim as the true Muslim leaders…
The rocket attacks yesterday across Lebanon’s southern border with Israel were a worrying sign that the conflict in Gaza may…
Mohammed Dahlan, 47, is the former head of security for Fatah in the Gaza Strip. In a SPIEGEL interview, he…
By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff The incident in which some 40 Palestinian civilians were killed when Israel Defense Forces…
LAHORE: Denying international media reports that Islamabad has lauged off the Indian evidence about the Mumbai terror attack, the Pakistani…
LAHORE: The much awaited evidence India has provided to Pakistan pertaining to the Mumbai terror attacks includes telephone transcripts between…
Note: During the past two centuries establishing a connection between Islam and democracy has been, and continues to be, the…
LAHORE: The Pakistan government is in a fix as to how to react to the letter written by Ajmal Kasab,…
‘They all think I’m a spy’Once a revolutionary who helped bring down Iran’s monarchy in 1979, Akbar Ganji is now…
A decisive majority of respondents support continuing the army’s air campaign against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip without endangering…
Responding to the Israeli military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, the Lebanese Shiite militia cum political party Hizballah denounced the…
LAHORE: The ongoing spate of deadly suicide bombings across Pakistan killed at least 80 people a month on average in…
One more good reason to support David Grossman’s idea of a 48 (renewable) truce is to foil “the great provocation”…
At 3:19 P.M. Sunday, the sound of an incoming missile could be heard over the telephone. And then another, along…
Long-term preparation, careful gathering of information, secret discussions, operational deception and the misleading of the public – all these stood…
LAHORE: While shifting thousands of the Pakistani troops from the trouble-ridden Pak-Afghan border to Indo-Pak border, the decision makers in…
LAHORE: Hardly a few hours before being assassinated outside the Liaqat Bagh in Rawalpindi on December 27, Benazir Bhutto was…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military leadership has advised President Asif Zardari to take back his statement made last month that his country…
LAHORE: The Saudi-sponsored American-British initiative to broker a peace deal between the Karzai administration and the Taliban have failed so…
From the summary: ………………………………………………………… Hezbollah did some things well, such as its use of cover and concealment, its preparation of…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities have busted a clandestine assassination plot being hatched by the jailed killer of American journalist Daniel…
LAHORE: The Mumbai attacker Ajmal Amir Kasab’s Faridkot village in the Depalpur district of the Pakistani Punjab has apparently been…
Translated from the Chinese by Perry Link The following text of Charter 08, signed by hundreds of Chinese intellectuals and…
LAHORE: Barely a week after launching a countrywide crackdown on the Jamaatul Daawa (JuD) in line with the UN Security…