Rather than merely taking advantage of rural popularity, it is rural ways that are influencing the Muslim Brotherhood, writes Hossam…
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LAHORE: The November 21 death of the British terror plot suspect Rashid Rauf in the North Waziristan area in a…
LAHORE: A high-level probe ordered by the Pakistani authorities into the 2007 dramatic escape of the British terror plot suspect…
A defense establishment paper recommends making contingency plans to attack Iran, reaching an agreement with Syria that includes leaving the…
LAHORE: Pakistan’s top Islamic advisory body’s recent recommendation to the federal government to drastically amend the outdated divorce laws and…
High on the agenda of the November 27-28 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors (BOG)…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities investigating the November 19, 2008 murder of Major General (r) Ameer Faisal Alvi, the former General…
LAHORE: Hymenoplasty or the restoration of hymen in a female body has now turned out to be the latest fad…
(Photo: US Aid Worker Stephen Vance gunned down in Peshawar) LAHORE: The rising number of terrorist attacks on foreigners as…
Summary: The real decision-maker in Iran is Supreme Leader Khamenei not President Ahmadinejad. Blaming Iran’s problems on President Ahmadinejad inaccurately…
On November 6, Robert Satloff, Patrick Clawson, and David Makovsky addressed a Policy Forum luncheon at The Washington Institute. Dr.…
LAHORE: Despite being sentenced to death six years ago by an Anti Terrorism Court for the gruesome murder of American…
On November 6, Robert Satloff, Patrick Clawson, and David Makovsky addressed a Policy Forum luncheon at The Washington Institute. Dr.…
Lahore: The Pakistani cricket team that was once known as a hot band of happy-go-lucky stars has gone through a…
LAHORE: The 44th president-elect of the United States Barack Hussain Obama is no stranger to Pakistan as he had traveled…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An American school in Damascus closed its doors and told students to…
An Iranian oil technician checks the oil separator facilities in Azadegan oil field (AP/Vahid Salemi) The recent tumble in global…
LAHORE: The Pakistan Army’s decision to suspend the construction of its new multi-billion General Headquarters in Islamabad due the worsening…
On 26/10/2008, the Syrian security agencies prevented the Syrian worldly-known director Muhammad Malas from travelling outside the country. Mr. Malas…
Lahore– At least 355 people have been killed and 248 others injured in 32 incidents of cross border missile strikes,…
BEIRUT, Lebanon — For years, the Lebanese military was ridiculed as the least effective armed group in a country that…
LAHORE: The ominous presence of Uncle Sam in Pakistani politics has always been an elephant in the room — none…
PolicyWatch #1415 This PolicyWatch is the third in a three-part series examining the situation in Lebanon two years after the…
Lahore- Despite repeated assertions by Islamabad of having taken tangible measures to dismantle the network of extremist militants in Pakistan,…
In Conversation with Yaroslav Trofimov Author of THE SIEGE OF MECCA * Q: If November 20, 1979 had never happened,…
PolicyWatch #1414 This PolicyWatch is the second in a three-part series examining the situation in Lebanon two years after the…
Lahore- Although the Sindh government has registered a fresh FIR (First Information Report) of the October 18, 2007 suicide attacks…
PolicyWatch #1413 This PolicyWatch is the first in a three-part series examining the situation in Lebanon two years after the…
Lahore,Pakistan– The Tableeghi Jamaat (TJ) or the Party of Preachers, a non-militant organization of practicing Muslims that claims to have…
LAHORE: Seven years down the road since the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan by the US-led Allied…
In a major reshuffle in the Pakistan army’s top brass, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani…
This past Monday, a Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) transport was targeted by a car bomb that killed five soldiers and…
US-led efforts to tackle the al-Qaeda group are not regarded as successful, an opinion poll carried out for the BBC…
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities probing the September 20th Marriott Hotel attack in Islamabad are now trying to ascertain whether it…
Conventional wisdom holds that when Iran’s supreme leader says, “Jump,” millions of Shiites, from the Beirut slums to the Saudi…
LAHORE: The Pakistani intelligence agencies probing the September 20, 2008 Marriot Hotel suicide bombing say the responsibility claim made by…
LAHORE: Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the chief of an al-Qaeda linked Pakistani jehadi group Harkatul Jehadul Islami (HUJI), already being suspected…
LAHORE: The pattern of the Marriott Hotel suicide bombing in Islamabad suggests the possible involvement of the Harkatul Jehadul Islami…
The endless wave of deadly suicide bombings across Pakistan, the Marriot Hotel attack in Islamabad on Saturday night being the…
A number of Islamic associations have put a quick end to their collaboration with a professor — and trainer of…
(photo: Prof. Aref Dalila at his release from six years of solitary confinement) * Aref Dalila was not alone in…
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Zardari, who has risen to the highest rung of the country’s political ladder…
Seven years after the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States that shook the entire world, Pakistan, despite being a…
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Libya last week represents the final step in a decades-long U.S. effort to…
Policy Focus #87 Format: PDF, 40 Pages Published: September 2008 As nuclear negotiations between Iran and the international community enter…
In May 2003—some eight weeks after the American invasion had begun— Abdul-Amir Hamdani, the archaeology inspector of Dhi Qar province…
PolicyWatch #1401 This PolicyWatch is the second of a two-part series on Jordan’s reengagement with Hamas. Read part one. Almost…
Melody Moezzi and Michelle Obama have three things in common — a law degree, a desire to see Barack Obama…
Ali Abdallah in his cell in section 13 * It has been about two years since Ali Abdullah stopped writing…
PolicyWatch #1400 This PolicyWatch is the first of a two-part series on Jordan’s reengagement with Hamas. Last week, Jordan’s minister…