Opinion

The government of Pakistan denies the presence of ISIS in the country but this not the ­case. It is very much there as different­ incidents and arrests have exposed....

Since the ‘Arab revolutions’ of 2011, a number of factors have contributed to destabilising the region, including the growing divide between Sunnis and Shiites, increasing radicalisation, tribal and regional...

I was visiting my mom in Antakya recently. We were walking in the Kuseyr hill and could hear sounds from the other bank of the Asi River (Orontes), but...

2015 was a year for records, a year of wake-up calls. Scientists at NASA and NOAA confirmed that 2015 was the hottest year on historical record with world temperatures...

After World War II, the British left India p­artitioning it in creating Pakistan as ­a separate homeland for the undivided I­ndian Muslims. There was trans-migration­ of millions of Hindus,...

Moving through the interstices of civil society, we lack a minipermeameter to measure the diffusion of jihad’s vapor.  There is no such tool.  Yet jihad ideology plays out like...

Muhammad Ali, a daily wage laborer in his mid sixties in a shabby appearance, sits bare-foot on the ground in the morning hours in a village in Pakistan, in...

"This is a good day. Once again, we're seeing what's possible with strong American diplomacy". ~President Barack Obama The historic international nuclear agreement between the United States and its...

David Bowie passed away with a parting present with his album Blackstar on 10th. January, 2016. The album was something that changed a shape of a thing (remember his...

I was struck recently by three stories in the news. The first was about a WWII American POW, Roddie Edmonds, a Christian who saved many of his fellow POW’s...