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| Problems facing tribes and their solution |
| Rehmat Shah Afridi |
| We, the tribal people, have many problems. Some of these have been created by outsiders, others we have made ourselves.
There are many ways to look at these problems which range from others infringing... Full Story |
| Finding a way out of Afghanistan |
| Katrina vanden Heuvel |
| Team B efforts have long played an influential role in determining the outcome of intra-elite debates on critical national security issues. In the 1970s, the CIA’s Team B report on Soviet military capabilities,... Full Story |
| China needs Sudan to vote peacefully |
| Simon Tisdall |
| China has more to lose than most if things fall apart in Sudan this winter, where a potentially explosive national referendum on southern independence is due in January. Beijing is the country’s biggest... Full Story |
| Saudi time |
| Thomas L Friedman |
| It’s been a week and the newly minted Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have not broken down yet! Surely that is a good sign. It is a measure of how low expectations are for these talks that they have to... Full Story |
| Cool breeze from the Holy Land |
| Amir Hamza |
| It was the same Holy Month of Ramazan when my Sire (PBUH) appeared from the Cave of Hira, went straight to his home and asked our spiritual mother Khadeejah (RA) in trembling voice for a blanket and told... Full Story |
| The photo before the storm: Peace talks already failed |
| Ramzy Baroud |
| A picture is not always worth a thousand words. The recently released photographs of Palestinian and Israeli leaders in Washington during their first direct talks in many months certainly don’t say anything... Full Story |
| Earth over a barrel of oil |
| Kevin Rafferty |
| Oil prices continue to fluctuate nervously with every report or rumor that the world economy is either on the mend or heading for double dip recession. They slithered again when it became clear that the... Full Story |
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