Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UNICEF Deputy Representative to Lebanon Ettie Higgins reported from Lebanon on the effects of Monday’s massive attack by Israeli war […]
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US Urges Freedom to Protest; Zardari Rejects Reconciliation Plan, Bans Geo; Sherry Rehman Resigns
The Pakistani government arrested another 200 protesters on Friday, mostly in Punjab province. The Long March demonstrators, in the meantime, reached the outskirts of Lahore. […]
Caron: Uprooting Flowers on Pakistan’s Frontier
James Caron writes in a guest op-ed for IC Some time before dawn on the 5th of this month, there was an explosion in the […]
Iraqi Refugees
Website for Iraqi Refugees: ‘Five million Iraqis have been driven from their homes by sectarian terror since Saddam Hussein was overthrown. Security has improved but […]
Stern: Effects of Global Warming Even Worse
Prominent British economist and environmentalist Nicholas Stern, has concluded that the average temperature of the earth could go up as much as about 10 degrees […]
Plans for March Unaltered; Nawaz: Zardari will Not Serve out Term
Even though the Zardari government has arrested hundreds of activists, planning for the march on Islamabad this weekend continued unabated. In what sounds like an […]
3 Years Sentence on Shoe-Thrower
Iraqi shoe-thrower Muntadhar al-Zaidi was sentenced to 3 years in prison on Thursday, under a statute forbidding assaults on visiting heads of state. The maximum […]
Al-Qaeda Threatens US Embassy
The USG Open Source Center translates from Urdu an article on planned al-Qaeda attacks on on US facilities in Pakistan under cover of turmoil provoked […]
Hundreds Arrested in Punjab; Suspension of Civil Liberties; Some set Out on Long March on Capital
Well, I already used “crisis deepens in Pakistan,” so what should I say about the news that the Pakistan People’s Party government has had hundreds […]
Cole in Harper’s On the Muslim World
Scott Horton at Harper’s Magazine asked me six questions about my new book, Engaging the Muslim World, which will be in bookstores March 17 (or […]