Eastern border, againFollowing the recent debacle at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), it appears that the US is in rather more of a conciliatory mood than Pakistan. After all, on the same day that much of the weste...
Free media and corruptionBerlin-based anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International has ranked Pakistan 117 out of 180 countries in its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI), giving the country a score of 32; the sam...
Sharia law in the UKThe question of Sharia law in the United Kingdom remains a largely unanswered one. And Justin Welby, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, last week waded into the fray; seemingly backing the governme...
Forget the world, militias are a threat to PakistanThe Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international watchdog, is all set to place Pakistan on its watch list this summer. This development will have serious ramifications for Pakistan’s economy a...
Showdown in Tennessee — III was not expecting the aggressive onslaught, but I stood my ground and rebutted each point systematically. I said: he was incorrect in stating that I had written and collaborated with Tariq Ramadan i...