By The Editorial Board, The Newyork Times Nearly 15 years after 9/11, the war in Afghanistan is raging and Pakistandeserves much of the blame. It remains a duplicitous and dangerous partner for the United States and Afghanistan, despite $33 billion in American aid and repeated attempts to reset relations on a more constructive course. In coming weeks, Gen. John Nicholson Jr., the new American […]

Ibn Khaldun thought the tribals were bound together by their “asabiya” (group feeling) and were united in making war on the “soft” city. By Khaled Ahmed My contention that Muslim extremism springs from a process of retribalisation of society may have seemed far-fetched. A kind of perverse radicalism emanating from non-urban elements forces Muslims to adopt extremism. The greatest Muslim […]

As Islamabad’s jet hopes crash, the generals must heed evidence of mounting global frustration over Pak behaviour. Pakistan received news this week that its air force will not be receiving eight new-generation F-16 combat jets for next to free. The development is evidence of mounting frustration at Pakistan’s behaviour in global capitals. US President Barack Obama’s administration had announced, in February, […]

This message is for everybody that lives in the United States of America but mostly for those that subscribe to the liberal agenda. Radical Islam is nothing to laugh about or throw behind closed door thinking that is going to go away. These fundamentalists are out there, and they will do everything in their power to see our nation destroyed […]

Asian Human Rights Commission That the Pakistan Military has been extending its tentacles to envelop the State apparatus is no secret. However, a lesser-known aspect is the economic hegemony it is perpetuating over peasants in the shape of Military Farms Okara. Illegal land grabbing is now being used as a most profitable business for the force, which has anyway been […]

By Hassan Raza In a recent episode of one of the apparent ‘comedy programs’ aired on one of the private TV channels of Pakistan, a performer used extremely offensive and derogatory remarks targeted towards one specific religious group in Pakistan. The comedian in the clip, who was acting as dealer of conscience, used the words ‘Hindu kutta’. The performer while […]

The project of Islamisation is a kind of planned ‘retribalisation’ of the state. By Khaled Ahmed Shocking news from Belgium: Only eight of the 114 mosque imams in Brussels speak any of Belgium’s traditional languages. When Muslims betake themselves to the mosque to relieve their isolation in the host state, and listen to sermons advocating laws totally alien to modern […]

“And I’m a master criminal because the government thinks I have too much hair, too much voice, and I am too much of a woman.” by ALLISON MALONEY Speaking to a packed house today, journalist Masih Alinejad took the stage at the Women in the World New York Summit to speak with host Tina Brown about living in political exile […]

Khaled Ahmed Moment of hope: February 29, Pakistan finally hanged the policeman Mumtaz Qadri who riddled Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer with bullets in 2011. Moment of despair: March 3, a mammoth gathering mourned Qadri and buried him as a “martyr”. The state cowered as the clergy, empowered to act like warriors over many years, condemned the supreme court for allowing […]

The eight members of China’s Communist party elite whose family members used offshore companies are revealed in the Panama Papers. The documents show the granddaughter of a powerful Chinese leader became the sole shareholder in two British Virgin Islands companies while still a teenager.Jasmine Li had just begun studying at Stanford University in the US when the companies were registered in her […]

We appeal the Pakistani nation and media to come and join hands to save our country in the present situation from further crisis. We, a group of few women, has made an organization in Europe for the people of Pakistan ‘s Tribal Area with the aim to help these brave enough and patriotic Pakistanis to get out of this quagmire […]

Ahmed Rashid The suicide bomber who killed seventy-two people on Easter Sunday in a park in Lahore, Pakistan has drawn condemnation from around the world. Among the killed were twenty-nine children, and another 370 people were wounded, many of them members of the country’s Christian minority. Far less noted, however, has been the attack’s equally devastating effect on relations between […]

Munir Saami Pakistan has faced another bloodbath. This time its Christian minority has been targeted, and a suicide bomber, belonging to Taliban, has killed over 75 Pakistanis, and severely injured over 300 people celebrating Easter in a Lahore park. Leaders and people around the world are stunned, and there has been a global outpouring of sympathy for the people of […]

PTI Haqqani said the fact of the matter is that the Pakistani military and civilian leadership easily gets distracted by delusions of fighting India and its influence in Afghanistan. Pakistan’s involvement with jihadi groups at the highest level aimed at “liberation” of Jammu and Kashmir has backfired, ex-diplomat Husain Haqqani said on Tuesday following the deadly terror attack in Lahore. […]

Editorial As tragedy struck in the metro and the airport, with bombs killing at least 31 people and wounding many more – leaving devastation, grief and shock in their wake – on Tuesday 22 March Brussels joined the list of European capitals that have been targeted by indiscriminate jihadi terrorism. Four months on from the 13 November Paris attacks, the scenes of destruction, […]

Editorial, The New York Times The nature and full extent of the connection between the terrorist attacks in Brussels on Tuesday and the arrest, last Friday, of Salah Abdeslam, suspected of handling the logistics in November’s Paris attacks, is still unknown. Didier Reynders, Belgium’s deputy prime minister, said Mr. Abdeslam was planning to “restart something” in Brussels. What is known is […]

By PETER OBORNE FOR THE DAILY MAIL Five bodies hang from a pole suspended between two cranes, a public display which serves as a reminder to those who might contemplate a life of crime. They belonged to a gang of five robbers, all of whom were publicly beheaded before their corpses were hoisted high in the air, where they remained […]

A little-known alliance of hundreds of lawyers in Pakistan is behind the rise in prosecutions for blasphemy, a crime punishable by death that goes to the heart of an ideological clash between reformers and religious conservatives. The group, whose name translates as The Movement for the Finality of the Prophethood, offers free legal advice to complainants and has packed courtrooms with representatives, […]