Silver Linings In Short Supply
Amid continued violence, from the Holy Land to South Asia, 2008 was a year of…More
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Slides And Stories From Pakistan To Palestine
Mustafa Qadri is newmatilda.com’s Middle East and South Asia correspondent, based in the Pakistani port…More
Is It Time to Make Peace With The Taliban?
"You are with us, or you are with the terrorists," declaimed President George Bush in…More
Recycling Pakistan
In February 2008, the Brookings Institution of Washington, DC, hosted an exercise in moral abstraction…More
Beyond Violence in Pakistan
There was an unmistakable message amid the rubble of the Marriott bombing in Islamabad: military…More
Terrorise Like it's Going Out of Style
Last week Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith had a conversation with Jim Middleton on…More
Sorry Pakistan, We Need to Bomb You Too
Last week US President George W Bush announced a "reorientation" of US forces in the…More
A Family Affair
The Western world still understands little about the motivations behind the September 11, 2001 attacks…More
Why Are We There Again?
Kevin Rudd’s trip to Washington – Presidential salutes aside – was another public relations triumph…More
Under a Carpet of Bombs
‘To me, I confess, [countries] are pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played…More