When on Monday the armed pro-Al Qaeda militants in the notorious North-Western Frontier Province agreed to a ceasefire agreement with the Pakistan government, there was surge of hope that this time Pakistan could just move forward in eradicating...
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The Japanese government, recently, has come under tremendous pressure from the opposition to scale back its naval assistance to US warships involved in Afghan ground missions. Even the public opinion is heavily divided on the issue. In a recent newspaper...
Pakistan has long been identified as the stronghold of al Qaeda. In spite of persistent protests by the country's President General Pervez Musharraf, the truth that Pakistan is the haven for Islamic terrorists cannot be eclipsed.
The...
At the heart of the surge of global terrorism is the conflict among religions. Faith proves a strong reason for many to turn against humanity and the world religious leaders are now trying their very best to teach the people how to maintain peace and...
Robert Spencer is a well known Islamic scholar. And that, he might be thinking, gives him the right to write anything about his subject. His recent article at The Front Page Magazine sets out to show how the Muslims kill each other. No one is...
Religion is a dangerous topic to write on. Everyone except God seems to be touchy about it. A recent document earlier this month by Muslim clerics to the Pope and other Church figures invites dialogue between Christians and Muslims. Otherwise, the...
More than a year after the war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, lasted for 34 days, the scars continue to heal. The war ended inconclusively with both sides claiming victory and southern Lebanon, forced into staging the...
There was a strong sense of hope and progress in 2001 when the US drove away the Taliban to the far outskirts and mountains of Afghanistan in their immediate retaliation to the 9/1 attacks by al-Qaeda.
But six years down the line and the country is...
The growing influence of Internet all around the globe has also given a weapon in the hands of terror groups to spread their messages to their subordinates and other like-minded people everywhere. More than 100 English Internet sites are reportedly...
A good news for all peace loving Jews and Muslims -as the holy month of Ramadan approaches towards end, Muslim community shows tremendous spirit of philanthropy. Yes, Muslim clerics and theologians come with an opening letter to their Christian...
Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's assessment of the murky situation in Iraq is hardly a novel one. His conviction that the Bush administration has been found lacking in strategic and administrative skills to combat the sensitive situation in Iraq,...
Despite the recent spate of kidnappings of German contractors and aid workers in Afghanistan by the Taliban, the lower house of the German parliament extended the deployment of the 2,800-odd troops. This was approved completely against the opinion of the...
When a Danish news paper first published drawings of Prophet Muhammad in September 2005, it could have hardly known that it would stirring a hornet's nest. Since its first publication, several other leading European newspapers had picked up the cue...
A fresh and completely unexpected controversy with the potential of far-reaching consequences seems to have erupted between the United States and its NATO ally Turkey after a bill, recognising the massacre of millions of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey in...
Zimbabwe appears to be a perennial vortex of dispute and unrest. An estimated 3 million people have already escaped from the nation as a result of acute food shortage and human rights violation records are one of the worst in the entire world....
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