The Daily Times: Yasser Latif Hamdani: In the current atmosphere, standing up to the US and citing due process in defence of Saeed seems like a very attractive idea. A […]
(Reuters) – The shooting began over the course of weeks, but if Bosnia’s war needs a beginning to mark, then it’s April 6, 1992, twenty years ago this Friday. That’s […]
Dailytimes.com: It seems that state officials are taking advantage of the discriminatory status of Ahmedis to freely brutalise members of the community. Police officials continuously persecute these people because of […]
By Safa A. Hussein The Daily Star, Lebanon Iraqis celebrated the Arab Spring that changed the regimes of Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen. But they are divided about the protests and uprisings in Bahrain and Syria. On the surface, it seems that this is merely a reflection of the sectarian divide […]
Global Post: Officially, India welcomed the US decision to offer a $10 million bounty for information leading to the capture of alleged Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed, whom both the US […]
NY Times: …………..Wendy Sherman, the United States under secretary of state for political affairs, announced the reward for Mr. Saeed, described as the leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba, during a visit to India on Monday. […]
Dawn.com: When in 2009 the Taliban had taken over the districts of Buner, Shangla and Lower Dir, they had been some 60 miles away from Islamabad. But that had been […]
Source: Al-Arabiya News A 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy have been killed in an acid attack in Afghanistan, an official said Saturday, with witnesses claiming it was because of their friendship in what is an ultra-conservative country. The bodies were discovered on Friday in wasteland in the Esfandi area […]
A woman from Iraq who was found beaten, lying in a pool of blood in her in El Cajon, Calif., home next to a note saying “go back to your […]
Source: New York Times Author: Farooq Jan Mangal and Matthew Rosenberg KHOST, Afghanistan — A member of a militia promoted by the American military to protect rural villages drugged his Afghan colleagues and killed at least nine of them as they slept on Friday, a police official said, in the […]
By GWYNNE DYER ARABNEWS After Mohamed Merah died in a hail of French police bullets last week, people who had known him talked about “a polite and courteous boy” who liked “cars, bikes, sports and girls.” His friends had trouble believing that he had murdered seven people, including three children, […]
Credit: Asia Times: By Amir Mir ISLAMABAD – Pakistan opposition parties are moving to block the reopening of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) supply routes into neighboring Afghanistan ahead of crucial deliberations to set new terms of engagement with the United States. The country’s major right-wing opposition party, led by […]
Using Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Other Internet Tools, Pakistani Terrorist Group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Incites Violence against Shi’ite Muslims and Engenders Antisemitism Introduction This paper examines the role of Pakistani terrorist group […]
Russian TV: Mohamed Merah, the notorious killer shot in a stand-off with police a week ago in Toulouse, is still stirring controversy in France. An ex-chief of the French spy […]
The New York Times: Erik Schmidt: An American investigation in December found fault with both American and Pakistani troops for the deadly exchange of fire, but noted that the Pakistanis fired […]
Global Post.Com: A French high school teacher faces disciplinary action after she urged students to observe a minute of silence for Mohammed Merah, the man who shot and killed three […]
(Reuters) – A foiled plot by suspected Islamic militants to attack and bomb targets in Bali, including a bar popular with tourists, marks an escalation of the violent threat in Indonesia as […]
NewYork Times; By DECLAN WALSH: Making up is never easy. But as Pakistan and the United States try to restart their troubled relationship after a year of spectacular crises, the difference […]
Russian TV; The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has said that all churches in the Arabian Peninsula must be destroyed. The statement prompted anger and dismay from Christians throughout the […]
The DailyTimes: by Usman Ahmad: The day was in the words of Charles Dickens, “…one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when […]