Farooq Sulehria: Pakistan's Elections

MEHTARLAM, Afghanistan, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Up to four Afghan policemen were killed and one was wounded when Taliban insurgents launched an attack on a police checkpoint in eastern province of Laghman early Wednesday morning, the provincial ...

Contrary to popular belief, right-wing authoritarianism is not a desire by the people with that personality type to tell other people how they should behave; instead it is a fervent desire to be led and to submit to authority, and that said ...

Victor Davis Hanson's latest National Review column blasts President Obama for pursuing what he calls a neo-isolationist foreign policy. The charges he levels are familiar ones in hawkish critiques of the president: Obama is leading from behind and ...

US-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai travelled to Doha on Saturday to meet with the Qatari emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, as Taliban officials are opening an office in Doha, the Qatari capital. Karzai made open overtures to the Taliban ...

William Kristol knows what is wrong with the United States. As he wrote recently in the flagship magazine of the neo-conservatives, the Weekly Standard, the problem with the US is that we seem to have lost our appetite for war. According to Kristol, ...

By Alex Lantier 18 May 2013 Testifying before the US Senate Committee on Armed Services on Thursday, Pentagon officials claimed that war on terror legislation gives them sweeping powers to wage war anywhere in the world, including inside the ...

Although he has been here just two months Ambassador Thomas has already made his presence felt in Philippine politics, clearly sending the message that he would aggressively protect US interests. Until now, local politicians bristling at his overt ...

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara May 7, 2013. Later today, President Barack Obama will sit down with Turkish prime minister ...

: After the general election, which saw the clear victory of Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, "the hope is good, constructive dialogue has already started. Sharif has a good approach towards the non-Muslim Pakistanis. We hope to ...