(Istanbul: Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On October 22, Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and an ally of […]
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Babylon’s last alcohol seller arrested
AFP: Babylon's last alcohol seller arrested: family Paul Wolfowitz said that Iraqi Shiites would be better friends for the US than the Saudis because they […]
OSC: Fatwa against Poppies, China Moves in; Obstacles to Trade with Pakistan
The USG Open Source Center rounds up Afghanistan Development News for November. Critics of the war often allege that only economic improvement will settle the […]
| Pakistan | President Zardari under pressure after NRO ruling
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | President Zardari under pressure after NRO ruling Pakistan’s Supreme Court declined to extend a martial law ordinance that granted amnesty to […]
Pelosi says Obama must sell War; Contractor Surge in Afghanistan;
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says that it is up to President Obama to sell his troop surge to Democrats in Congress. Then she […]
Bomber strikes at Khosa’s house in D.G. Khan
DAWN.COM | Provinces | Bomber strikes at Khosa’s house in D.G. Khan A suicide bomber failed to reach his target and instead blew up innocents […]
Arrest warrant for Livni issued in London
FT.com / UK – Arrest warrant for Livni issued in London This incident is admittedly only a minor brouhaha, since former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi […]
China wins struggle for Pipelinestan
A common explanation for the US presence in Afghanistan is Washington’s interest in Central Asian fuel sources– natural gas in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and petroleum […]
New Oil Bids, Censorship, and the Fate of Iraq
The big news out of Iraq over the weekend was the awarding of a handful of new oil development contracts to companies such as Royal […]
Tripathi: Blair’s Iraq Confession
Deepak Tripathi, former BBC journalist and author of the book Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan (Potomac, January 2010) writes in guest op-ed […]