State Department Middle East Envoy George Mitchell met yesterday with Israeli and Palestinian officials in Jerusalem and the West Bank, reaffirming the U.S. position of the need for a two-state solution. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman stated that the historical approach to the peace process only weakened Israel and led to wars. Instead, Lieberman proposed […]
We remain in a state of denial. We are fully capable, we say, of handling the terrorist threat; we are going to fix our economy; all we want is trade opportunities, not aid; and we do not accept or give blank cheques. The truth is that we are in a parlous state The parliament approved […]
These are two phrases chanted by opposing groups during the protest demonstration by a group of about 300 Afghan women yesterday in Kabul. The group of women were voicing their opposition to the recent law passed by the Parliament and signed by President Karzai, which among other items, states that Shiite women in the country […]
President Barack Obama is visiting Mexico. Not surprisingly, drug trafficking will be at the center of the agenda as the violence fueled by American weapons threatens to cross the border into American territory. Presidents Obama and Calderón will have to work out the details of how a strong state can help a weak one to […]
This morning I found hanging from my door handle an informational note from the Home Front Command explaining to residents the amount of time they have between hearing an alarm signifying rocket fire to entering a bomb shelter. In large letters the note reads (translated from the Hebrew where it rhymes), “To be on protected, […]
“Opportunity in crisis” isn’t so much rhetoric in the first days of the Obama Administration. The financial meltdown that began in Wall Street and spread to America’s working class has knocked top-ranked financiers out of a comfortable context where risk was appropriately and indefinitely hedged. Most of middle class America is suffering and feeling the […]
A group of Jewish activists intended today to enter the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a site usually restricted to Arabs only with the exception of specific tourist times during the day. The second intifada began at the site following the arrival of future Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. In order to counter the arrival of Jewish activists, Palestinians organized […]
This article is by a progressive blogger in Lahore, (Pakistan) Raza Rumi. It was first published by Friday Times (picture of the march in Lahore – courtesy Friday Times.) Raza’s article gives voice to millions of Pakistanis who are unable to express their anger and frustration for varying reasons. Raza Rumi blogs at www.razarumi.com and edits Pak Tea House and […]
In another round of truly awful news for Tajiks, two former Soviet nuclear waste sites located in the northern Sughd region are not adequately sealed and will not be in the near future. Some of the dust has been escaping out of these mounds of waste and contaminating water and soil. So far, the dust […]
ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of paintings titled ‘No honour in killing: making visible buried truth’ by various artists opened at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts on Wednesday. Dedicated to the five victims of the brutal Nasirabad honour killings, the exhibition is an attempt to keep their memory alive via art and dialogue and seeks […]
CHRASADDA: Nine police personnel, including a DSP and an SHO, and seven passers-by were killed while 10 others were injured after a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a police checkpost on Wednesday evening. The incident took place at a checkpost where police had erected barricades after the Charsadda DPO alerted the police to […]
NEW YORK: Saudi Arabia is showing only ‘muted interest in supporting’ Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari despite Washington’s effort to help strapped Pakistan raise some $ 4 billion to $ 5 billion in immediate infusion of money, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday quoting people involved in the deliberations. As the donor nations meet […]
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