By David Ignatius The growing evidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons against its own population provides an opportunity for the United States and Russia, the two countries that have the most influence over the situation, to jointly force President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power. A senior Israeli military officer told several journalists here today that he’s “very close to 100 percent ...

By Jonathan Kay Al-Qaeda's freelance structure has little appeal to Iran, which is a top-down theocracy that prefers to operate through similarly organized, elite... "The enemy of my enemy is my friend," is how the expression goes. And, fittingly enough, it apparently originated with an old Arabic proverb. But where the anti-American jihadism of al-Qaeda and Iran are concerned, things have never quite worke ...

By Karen DeYoung After meeting for more than three hours here Wednesday with Afghan and Pakistani leaders, Secretary of State John F. Kerry reported progress in relaunching negotiations but warned, “We’re not going to raise expectations or promise results that can’t be delivered.” Instead, Kerry said before boarding a plane to return to Washington, the leaders agreed to “underpromise but deliver.” “We’re al ...

By Sonya Rehman From current affairs to social issues and human interest stories, Pakistani journalist Kiran Nazish has written for Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Forbes  and a host of other local and foreign publications on hard-hitting socio-political issues and poignant stories of those affected by war. In an interview with The Diplomat, Nazish speaks about the challenges of being a female journalist in Pak ...

 Unjustified, arbitrary, dictatorial the vocal utterances against the rule of law seems just politically motivated only to please his gangsters and addressing his constituency, and for this actionable, unacceptable language, he deserves sympathy for his thoughtless speech or language used nothing else. As he does not understand his limits and rights of humans in the modern age.  In fact, he might have meant ...

 By Abid Hussain Assistant Library Officer National Defence University Islamabad World book or world book copyright day peoples also known as an international day of the book or world book days. Always celebrated on 23rd April every year. The initiative steps were taken by the bookseller in Spain in regards of an author named Miguel de Cervantes who died on the same date and for the honour of that author fi ...

Jim Hoagland Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - President Obama has used military muscle and veiled threats to counter North Korea’s rattling of nuclear rockets and Iran’s drive to enrich more uranium faster at the outset of his second term. His lofty ambition of four years ago to curb proliferation through diplomatic engagement lies in ruins. That does not mean that Obama’s non-proliferation ambitions were unwort ...

Khalid Khokhar Pakistan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 200-nautical miles, designated by the United Nations, is overwhelmingly enriched in both living and non-living marine resources - especially the Indus Delta region has abundance of prime quality fish that entice the neighbouring Indian fishermen, who deliberately violate the international boundaries and indulge in illegal fishing activities in Pakis ...