The permissibility of lying in Islam… Read more
Whatever China wishes to do in the Middle East, Washington will learn after the fact, if ever… Continue reading
Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly… Continue reading
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
The decision of the heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Beijing to designate Turkey a formal dialogue partner of the organization is yet another sign of recognition of Turkey’s growing influence in Central and South Asia… Continue reading
Although the overwhelming majority of honor killings worldwide occur within Muslim communities, one would not know this by reading the mainstream media… Continue reading
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
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
As U.S. military operations in Afghanistan drag on inconclusively, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the Taliban insurgency is gaining ground… Continue reading
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
Critics have often argued that Western nations have been hypocritical in their policies towards Bahrain… Continue reading
As U.S. military operations in Afghanistan drag on, a strengthening relationship between Pakistan and China has emerged as tensions between… Continue reading
Our nation is united in its determination to eliminate the spectre of terrorism from our soil, from our region and the world… Continue reading
The UAE has played a vital role in international efforts aiming at protecting the people of Libya… Continue reading
We Afghans are proud to have partnered, over the past ten years, with the world’s struggle against terrorism… Continue reading
Is there any sponsor of anti-American terrorism in the Middle East that the Obama Administration hasn’t tried to sponsor… Continue reading
From the 1970s to the late 1990s, militant Islamic groups in Egypt posed the greatest challenge to the regime in terms of internal security… Continue reading
Ahmad Rashid is widely considered to be the best journalist on Afghan and related Pakistani issues… Continue reading
A remarkable amount of what’s written on the Middle East in the mass media is nonsensical… Continue reading
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