Politics
Pakistan a peacemaker or US puppet in Iran war?
Behind the language of mediation in the US–Iran war lies a familiar pattern of dependency, where Pakistan operates within a framework it does not control.
Read the Script: Babar & Co. Verdict
As I write this, an extradition hearing is continuing in the Royal Courts of Justice, the very final one, before judgement is delivered in the cases of Babar Ahmad, Syed Talha Ahsan,…
Feigning Innocence: The Politics of Demonization
On 16 October 1946, Julius Streicher was Hanged by an International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after being convicted for crimes against humanity. Streicher was not a member of the Nazi military and…
Detention of Babar; A Failure of both Politics and the Law
On 24 September 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) drove the final nail in the coffin of Babar Ahmad’s 8 year fight against extradition to the US, dismissing claims that…
Freedom of Speech – Double Standards?
Embassies are razed, diplomats are lynched, protesters have marched with unbridled aggression from east to west. Â The Islamic world and the West once again finds itself at loggerheads arising from two conflicting…
Action Alert against Google, YouTube and the Government
Just casting our glances back a few years to September 10th 2005 when a series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Salallahu 'alayhi wa sallam as a terrorist with a bomb, published by Danish…
What is happening in Syria?
The Arab springs that ignited two years ago led to major positive changes occurring in most Arab states. Given that to be the case, many are left wondering why the Syrian revolution…