Uri Avnery For decades, my friends and I have warned that if we dither in making peace, the nature of the conflict will change. I myself have written dozens of times that if our conflict is transformed from a national to a religious struggle, everything will change for the worse. The Zionist-Arab struggle started as a clash between two great national movements, which were born more or less at the same time ...

 M. Zaidi OVER the years, studies have suggested that an extensive military response to terrorism may temporarily increase terrorist activity rather than cause it to decrease permanently. Walter Enders and Todd Sandler in the American Political Science Review (‘The Effectiveness of Anti-Terrorism Policies: A VAR-Intervention Analysis’) did a serial time review of US military measures against Libya. They fou ...

Dr Raja Muhammad Khan The prominent Pakistani human rights activist and former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Ms Asma Jehangir has accused ISI and Pakistan Army for an alleged planning to get her killed by making use of Jihadi elements, operating in the country. She revealed that the information of this planning reached to her through highly reliable sources. During a private televisi ...

Bassam Javed Pakistan’s problematic relationship with US has sailed into a fresh controversy after a tribal court gave 33 years long prison term to Pakistani doctor, Shakeel Afridi. He was convicted for his terrorism based linkages with Mangal Bagh led Lashkar e Islam besides his treasonous act of covertly facilitating CIA fake vaccination campaign designed to collect DNA sample of Osama Bin Laden and his f ...