I am currently sitting in my very reasonable apartment in the Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue guest house, typing at…
ISLAMABAD JULY 13/08 – Over the past few days the Americans have hit the Pakistanis at the border and are increasing threats…
ISLAMABAD JULY 8/08 – Another couple of days of bombings in Pakistan and Afghanistan, each with its own message and each by…
ISLAMABAD JULY 7/08 – Last night there was news of a suicide bombing at a police station near the Lal Mosque in…
Celebrations are on, but dangerous times ahead… Colombia’s most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt…
Colombia’s most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed (July 2/08) in a…
ISLAMABAD JULY 2, 2008 – In the coming days I am going to return to political and insurgency questions, but a couple…
We had corn flakes this morning. The label says "Fauji Foundation". Yesterday we drove by the Askari bank. I know enough Arabic…
I thought I could start blogging about the situation here in Pakistan, where I will be for a couple of weeks, and…
Tarek personally asked me to review his book, Chasing a Mirage: the tragic illusion of an Islamic State (CM). With a book…
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