Recently, those who have been following the news may have noticed an increase of terrorist attacks and the general persecution of Shi’a Muslims, particularly within Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and recently Palestine together with less reported, but still…
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The Bomb: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan
by Pervez Hoodbhoy •
Once upon a time Iran was Pakistan’s close ally – probably its closest one. In 1947, Iran was the first to recognise the newly independent Pakistan. In the 1965 war with India, Pakistani fighter jets flew to Iranian bases in…
The Year of Revolts
by Qaisar Abbas •
The miraculous uprising which swept the whole region should be seen in the context of political, economic, demographic and technological backdrop of the region, not in continuation with any past movement. Immanuel Wallerstein, the known social scientist, views the Arab…
Hajj concludes ‘peacefully’ with bloody batons
by Abbas Zaidi •
Hajj is a great opportunity for freedom of expression and a great opportunity to breathe freedom in the holiest Muslim place in the world. But then freedom is anathema to the House of Saud According to AFP and SPA news…
The Legend of Loh-i-Dandi
by Shaikh M. Ali •
Coordinates: 33°46’6″N 73°7’17″E (The mouth of the cave where Bari Imam spent 12 years in meditation) “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off…
Creatures of a lesser God
by Qaisar Abbas •
The ulama and the rights of women
by Masood Raja •
If woman is just an appendage and a ward of men, then she cannot be held accountable for her sins as a fully realized human being and thus not subject to divine judgment In my textual encounters, and now sadly…
Obama and the End of Al-Qaeda
by Juan Cole •
(From Informed Comment) An American president, himself the son of a Muslim father and a Christian mother, has taken down notorious terrorist Usama Bin Laden. Despite being a Christian, Obama, it seems to me, had a personal stake in destroying…
Media Whiz Kids of the Security State
by Abbas Zaidi •
In his Distant Voices (1994), John Pilger narrates how a Soviet intellectual got the shock of his journalistic life during his visit to the US in the mid-1980s. He spent a few days in New York studying American print and…
