A big wicket first up

LAHORE, March 28: Out-of-favour Pakistan seamer Yasir Arafat nudged the national selectors with a strong performance as Rawalpindi Rams held their nerves to edge past Karachi Dolphins by eight runs in their third Faysal Bank Super Eight T20 Cup ...

The police are still clueless about the whereabouts of the bodies of Lyari gangsters Arshad Pappu, Yasir Arafat and Shera Pathan. The three men were reportedly hacked to death in the troubled town of Lyari a day earlier. We don't know anything about ...

SPA - Three of Lyari's most wanted gang-war suspects Arshad Pappu, his brother Yasir Arafat, and Jumma Shera Pathan have been killed in a shootout here, Geo News reported. According to police, the bodies of the three were recovered from the Barohi ...

While Obama was in Ramallah with Palestinian President Abbas, they held a joint press conference. Unfortunately for President Obama, the optics didn't look good as he addressed the assembled journalists under a Yasir Arafat banner. Arafat probably ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank marked the 65 th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, which they call the catastrophe, with marches and protests. Nakba Day observances are held annually on May 15, ...

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/14/erdogan_turkey_kurds_peace_process_pkk Will embracing the Kurds make Turkey's prime minister the country's most influential figure since Ataturk? BY JOHN HANNAH | MAY 14, 2013 Something quite ...

What do the European sovereign debt crisis, the difficulty of building a liberal democracy in Afghanistan, and a Mexican drug cartel have in common? To begin with, all three are the predictable result of weak government institutions. On a deeper ...

Menachem Begin: A New Life. Avi Shilon. Yale. 2012. 584 pp. In Menachem Begin: A Life, a new biography of one of Israel's more multifaceted leaders, Avi Shilon succeeds in portraying a fervent and uncompromising Zionist whose political brilliance ...

It is amazing how many massive revelations pass people by completely. Consider this new gleaning from the British Archives from early 1948, which sheds much light on current events. British officials in the Palestine Mandate were reporting as ...