Turkey Detains Editor, Staff Of Leading Opposition Paper

“An accelerated descent into dictatorship” was how one journalist summed up the Oct. 31 raid on Cumhuriyet, one of a handful of surviving opposition outlets, which saw...

‘Afghan Girl’ in 1985 National Geographic Photo Is Arrested in Pakistan

An Afghan woman whose photograph as a young refugee with piercing green eyes was published on the cover of National Geographic in 1985, becoming...

Pakistan’s Honor-Killing Law Isn’t Enough

Bina Shah | Oct 28, 2016 KARACHI, Pakistan — In Pakistan today, it’s a sad reality that regressive societal attitudes toward women label us as...

The Dead Begin To Speak Up In India

Arundhati Roy | Oct 28, 2016 Kashmir is in the process of being isolated, cut off from the outside world by two concentric rings of...

Freedom of the Press

Hassan Niazi | Oct 26, 2016 On October 11, the Government of Pakistan took another step to undermine free speech. By placing one of the...

Kashmir: Seeking Solutions; Investing In Peace

Rustam Shah Mohmand | Oct 26, 2016 The events unfolding in the wake of the killing of Burhan Wani, a Kasmiri freedom fighter about three...

Heaven Can Wait – By Owen Bennett-Jones

OWEN BENNETT-JONES | Oct 26, 2016 JUST two years ago, it was said the jihadis could conquer Baghdad. Today they are on the run. When...

Sharif Under Siege – By Zahid Hussain

Zahid Hussain | Oct 26, 2016 MATTERS are getting increasingly ominous for Nawaz Sharif, although he may still be in a state of denial. It...

Muslims mistake synagogue for mosque in Israeli airport, use prayer shawls as prayer mats

Jews in Israeli Ben Gurion International Airport were quite taken aback after they saw several Turkish Muslims praying in the airport’s synagogue, apparently mistaking...

US-led coalition killed 300 Syrian civilians in 11 probed strikes – Amnesty

Around 300 civilians were killed in eleven airstrikes conducted by the US-led coalition in Syria, which Amnesty International investigated for its latest report. Amnesty...

Is Yemen headed for partition?

The failure of the latest cease-fire in Yemen suggests a long process of attrition is ahead. Neither side appears interested in a political settlement. The de...

Making Decisions In Pakistan

Durdana Najam | Oct 25, 2016 Having placed the name of a journalist on Exit Control List (ECL) the government according to the Interior Minister...
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