Posted on Sun, October 11, 2015 at 12:31 pm CEST
Post Pic

What Ronald Reagan Could Tell Us About Islamic Taqiyya

The permissibility of lying in Islam… Read more

Topics: Global Islam • Pakistan • Taqiyya • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, September 28, 2013 at 01:00 am CEST
Post Pic

Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Addresses General Assembly, 68th session, 2013

Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Pakistan • United Nations 
Posted on Tue, February 5, 2013 at 00:38 am CET
Post Pic

Spain and Muslim Apostasy

The Spanish authorities are trying to remove Imran Firasat from Spain, even though they are aware that he very well might be killed in Pakistan or Indonesia for blasphemy… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Human Rights • Indonesia • Pakistan • Religion • Spain 
Posted on Sun, December 30, 2012 at 14:06 pm CET
Post Pic

A Paradox of U.S. Middle East Policy: The Friend Who Acts like an Enemy is an Enemy

What’s the major problem for U.S. foreign policy during Obama’s second term… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Egypt • Human Rights • India • Islamic Terrorism • Obamaism • Pakistan • Politics • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Thu, April 19, 2012 at 14:34 pm CEST
Post Pic

The Piety Premium of Islamic Bonds

Traditionally, the Islamic states have had to reach out to Western capital markets to obtain funding for major projects. Islam’s prohibition on the collection of interest made it difficult to… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Global Islam • Islamic Countries • Malaysia • Pakistan • Qatar • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Tue, April 17, 2012 at 19:04 pm CEST
Post Pic

Can Afghanistan Be Rescued?

U.S. president Barack Obama entered office with a bold plan to combat Afghanistan’s escalating insurgency… Continue reading

Topics: Afghanistan • Diplomacy • Islamic Terrorism • Pakistan • Politics • Religion • Security and Defense • Taliban • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Wed, February 22, 2012 at 20:14 pm CET
Post Pic

From UN Watch: Pakistan and Chavez Running for Seat on Top UN Rights Body

The governments of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Pakistan are slated to run unopposed for seats on the UN’s 47-nation Human Rights Council this year… Continue reading

Topics: Human Rights • Pakistan • United Nations • Venezuela 
Posted on Mon, January 30, 2012 at 16:25 pm CET
Post Pic

Why We Should End Our Relationship With Pakistan

As Pakistanis burned American flags and the Washington Post wrote of “a new normal” in US-Pakistani relations earlier this month, it looked like the beginning of the end of five decades of friendly alliance between the two countries… Continue reading

Topics: Abigail Esman • Counter-terrorism • Diplomacy • Human Rights • NATO • Pakistan • Politics • Religious Terrorism • Security and Defense • Sunni Islam • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, October 11, 2011 at 20:56 pm CEST
Post Pic

Pakistan and China: Strengthening Ties

As U.S. military operations in Afghanistan drag on, a strengthening relationship between Pakistan and China has emerged as tensions between… Continue reading

Topics: China • Pakistan 
Posted on Mon, October 3, 2011 at 20:07 pm CEST
Post Pic

FM Hina Rabbani Khar Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

Our nation is united in its determination to eliminate the spectre of terrorism from our soil, from our region and the world… Continue reading

Topics: Pakistan • United Nations 
Posted on Sun, September 18, 2011 at 23:40 pm CEST
Post Pic

Obama Administration Sponsors the Sponsors of Anti-American Terrorism

Is there any sponsor of anti-American terrorism in the Middle East that the Obama Administration hasn’t tried to sponsor… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Islamic Terrorism • Pakistan • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, July 6, 2011 at 20:11 pm CEST
Post Pic

Pakistan’s Christian ‘Sex-Slaves’

Earlier we saw Egyptian preacher Huwaini and Kuwaiti political activist Mutairi call for the reinstitution of sex-slavery… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Christianism • Global Islam • Pakistan 
Posted on Sat, June 11, 2011 at 20:09 pm CEST
Post Pic

The Myth That Contemporary Western Mass Media Help Understand the World: An Example on Pakistan

A remarkable amount of what’s written on the Middle East in the mass media is nonsensical… Continue reading

Topics: Pakistan • The Media • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, June 4, 2011 at 16:44 pm CEST
Post Pic

WikiLeaks: Nederland Weigerde Verkoop van F-16’s aan Pakistan

Tijdens het Kabinet-Balkenende II (2003 — 2006) heeft Nederland geweigerd om medewerking te verlenen aan een Amerikaans plan… Lees verder

Topics: Belgium • Nederlands • Netherlands • Pakistan • U.S. Middle East Policy • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Fri, May 13, 2011 at 22:49 pm CEST
Post Pic

President Obama’s “Reset” of Relations with Muslims and a Massacre in Pakistan

There’s something particularly poignant about news that at least 80 people were killed in Charsadda, Pakistan, by a Taliban attack on a… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Pakistan • Religious Terrorism • Taliban • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, May 7, 2011 at 21:49 pm CEST
Post Pic

U.S. Pushes Pakistani Intelligence to the Wall

The Obama administration is presenting the successful Osama bin Laden hit as an epic American solo operation, unparalleled in… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Counter-terrorism • Pakistan • Taliban • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Fri, May 6, 2011 at 00:47 am CEST
Post Pic

Bin Laden’s Posthumous Fans

As so often happens, a peripheral issue has taken over the Western debate regarding the killing of Usama bin Laden… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Anti-Americanism • Counter-terrorism • Pakistan • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Tue, May 3, 2011 at 00:30 am CEST
Post Pic

Is there a link between Bin Laden’s killing and the Arab Revolt?

The photos released of the fortified villa in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden died on Sunday night, show a… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Counter-terrorism • Islamic Terrorism • Islamism • Pakistan • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Mon, May 2, 2011 at 23:07 pm CEST
Post Pic

Osama bin Laden’s Last Haven was a Pakistani Military Town

US military and intelligence sources disclose that Abbottabad, where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead Sunday night… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Counter-terrorism • Pakistan • United States of America • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Mon, May 2, 2011 at 20:14 pm CEST
Post Pic

Osama Bin Laden Is Dead And His Cause Goes Marching On

Usama bin Laden is dead. But revolutionary Islamism is very much alive and stronger than ever. Thinking that bin Laden is the main problem… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Counter-terrorism • Global Jihad • Islamic Terrorism • Pakistan • United States of America • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:57 am CEST
Post Pic

Osama bin Laden Killed by U.S. Forces in Pakistan

Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, has been killed. Bin Laden was located at… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Counter-terrorism • Global Jihad • Islamic Terrorism • Pakistan • United States of America • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Fri, April 1, 2011 at 22:51 pm CEST
Post Pic

Westophobia: Why Do “They” Hate America? Just Listen

Why do people in certain parts of the world hate America? Some think it’s because of U.S. support of Israel or other policies… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Global Islam • Pakistan • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, March 28, 2011 at 16:38 pm CEST
Post Pic

WikiLeaks: No Power-Sharing with the Taliban, Holbrooke pledges

In a January 18 meeting with Richard Holbrooke, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao described the Indian effort in Afghanistan as focused on… Continue reading

Topics: Afghanistan • India • Pakistan • Taliban • U.S. Middle East Policy • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Sun, March 20, 2011 at 11:17 am CET
Post Pic

WikiLeaks: Allies Find Briefing on Afghanistan “Gloomy”

U.S. National Intelligence Officer (NiO) for South Asia, Dr. Peter Lavoy, briefed NATO Permanent Representatives on the National Intelligence Estimate… Continue reading

Topics: Afghanistan • Al-Qaeda • NATO • Pakistan • Taliban • United States of America • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Thu, March 10, 2011 at 23:33 pm CET
Post Pic

Shahbaz Bhatti and the Death of Reason

My time in Pakistan was glorious. I taught bright, beautiful and hopeful students who saw the world not as a series of… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Global Islam • Human Rights • Islamic Fundamentalism • Pakistan