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Will the real Pakistan stand up, please?
Two headlines this month beg the question US officials have been grappling with for more than a decade: Will the real Pakistan stand up,...
Saudi Prince Mohammed’s religious moderation unlikely to change Asian realities
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may be seeking to revert his kingdom to an unspecified form of moderate Islam but erasing the impact...
Assessing Washington’s “strategic and military” options in Syria
For Washington, Eastern regions around Mediterranean holds “vital strategic interests” centrally to which lies Syria, policy makers within the White House and the State...
Countering Extremism: Jihadist Ideology Reigns Supreme
The sad truth is that governments, law enforcement, security forces, intellectuals and journalists do not have an ideological response to political violence’s latest reiteration,...
Al-Khalifa regime and the Islamic awakening in the region
Later in the spring of 2015, media sources quoting Al-Manar's news site said the Al-Khalifa regime canceled Sheikh Isa Qassim's nationality of prominent Bahraini...
Pakistan struggles to get a grip on militancy and ultra-conservatism
Seventy years after its birth, Pakistan is struggling to get a grip on Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism and its militant offshoots that were aided and...
Understanding Hezbollah’s “military engagement” in Syria: Achieving political goal or a religious drift?
Since the early 1980s, Hezbollah has been an “aggressive” politico-military actor “influencing” regional politics in the Middle East, particularly Lebanon. Its membership phenomenally grew...
Smoking and drinking: Churchill sets an example today’s Western leaders can learn from
To understand that Western emphasis on human rights is at best a fig leaf to do business with autocrats whose rule is based on...
Katibat Imam al Bukhari Renewed its Ideological Doctrine of the Jihad
On February 15, 2017 the Uzbek jihadist group of Katibat Imamal Bukhari from Central Asia, also known as the Imam Bukhari Jamaat, issued a...
Valentine’s Day pinpoints limits of Saudi prince’s Islamic reform effort
Valentine’s Day in Riyadh and Islamabad as well as parts of Indonesia and Malaysia puts into sharp relief Saudi Arabia’s ability to curtail the...