My friend Pervaiz Rashid, for better or worse information supremo of a government whose muddle-headedness becomes more evident by the day, says that talks have been initiated with the Taliban.…
These are not the best of times for the Egyptian army. The Arab world’s largest military force has strayed far away from its benevolent act of overthrowing King Farouk, a…
President Barack Obama on Friday addressed growing calls for US action in Syria and Egypt by insisting the country could not step in to either conflict without international backing and…
The Egyptian crisis and wider turmoil in the Middle East has intensified the debate in America and beyond about how Washington should respond to the turbulent turn of events in…
A 60-year-old barber, Iskandar Toss, was shot dead and beheaded before his body was tied to a tractor and dragged through Delga village in the southern Egyptian province of Minya.…
Once the excitement caused by the lone gunman who dramatically held Islamabad ‘hostage’ for five hours or more dies down, and it will, we’ll revert to more serious issues. But…
History ordinarily moves at a slow pace but as nations reach the point when change is overdue, this slow march can turn into a gallop. Situations evolve gradually till they…
The closure of Islamist TV channels in Egypt following the army ouster of president Mohammed Morsi has been slammed by rights groups as an attack on the freedom of expression,…
When an Egyptian officer said recently on national television that the conflict with Ethiopia over the waters of the Nile was "not yet" a military one, his words sounded more…
On March 10, more than halfway through the meetings of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, delegates that had come together from countries all around the world…
