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Freedom House condemns Pakistan’s recent decision to violate international law by handing over a group of Uighur exiles to the Chinese authorities. The case is a disturbing sign of China’s growing influence in …

By Hassan Abbas
ISPU Fellow
It is a globally recognized fact that a state’s police and law enforcement agencies play a critical role as the first line of defense against the threats of terrorism and insurgencies. …

By Rafia Zakaria
In its rigidity, the Talibanised society mimics an authenticity that sounds and feels truly pure and Islamic and is greedily imbibed by a population that is hungry for answers.
The scene is chilling. A …

By Pervez A. Hoodbhoy
Women in burqas and children from the Bajaur and Mohmand agency areas wait to be registered at a refugee camp near Peshawar in January. Today a full-scale war is being fought in …

Michael Williams | The Guardian
Last week Barack Obama announced a new strategy for Afghanistan that he believes addresses the fundamental realities of the problem – including the rather belated American realization that Pakistan is integral …

By WILLIAM GLABERSON and MARGOT WILLIAMS
Published: March 31, 2009
WASHINGTON — Ilshat Hassan’s flight from China has brought refuge, a job at the consulting firm Booz Allen and an apartment in the Virginia suburbs.
Mr. Hassan, an …

By Eric Margolis
President Barack Obama has now taken full ownership of the Afghanistan War. Gone are Washington’s pretenses that a western ‘coalition’ was waging this conflict. Gone, too, is the comic book term, ‘war on …

MULTAN, Pakistan – A Pakistani gang-rape victim who shunned custom and rose to global fame by speaking out about her case has defied another local taboo – she just got married.
Mukhtar Mai is now the …

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Saeed Malik, a US citizen who is the younger brother of former Pakistan Supreme Bar Association president and lawyers’ movement leader Muneer Malik, says that the Obama Administration should support Pakistan’s …

(Reuters) – A year after an election returned Pakistan to civilian rule, the country has slid back into a political crisis.
Pakistani lawyers and opposition parties vowed to go ahead with a nationwide protest on Thursday, …

Azhar Masood | Arab News
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday admitted for the first time that last year’s Mumbai attacks were launched from its soil and partly hatched there. Interior Ministry adviser Rehman Malik told a news conference …

By Faisal Kutty – Political instability. Nuclear and conventional missile brinkmanship. And now intense border battles. Is this a recipe for a nuclear disaster? Alarm bells about a possible nuclear conflagration are ringing a lot …

Ensure captive in Pakistan properly treated
The Toronto Star December 24, 1995, Sunday, SUNDAY SECOND EDITION
Copyright 1995 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
The Toronto Star
December 24, 1995, Sunday, SUNDAY SECOND EDITION
SECTION: LETTER; Pg. E2
LENGTH: 191 words
HEADLINE: Ensure captive …