Special Dispatch No. 4777 Former Pakistani UN Rapporteur And Respected Human Rights Activist Asma Jahangir Says Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Behind Plot To Assassinate Her Former UN rapporteur Asma Jahangir In early June 2012, renowned Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir announced that she had become aware of a plot against her life. At a June 5 press conference, she urged the Pakistani journalists present not to confuse the public about the identity of ...
In April 2012, a major controversy erupted in Pakistan over a decision by the University of Peshawar to recommend Salman Rushdie's two books – Midnight's Children and Shame – for students and researchers enrolled in MPhil and PhD courses. The approval to include the books in the university syllabus was sought by the Department of English and Applied Linguistics and granted at a March 16, 2012 meeting of the Academic Council. 1 According to a Pakistani media report, teachers and students ...
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The following are reactions to the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces on May 2, 2011, from Middle East television and jihadi websites. The clips are from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar , Lebanon , Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Gaza, and the U.K. MEMRI TV Clip No. 2910 Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya Condemns the Killing of the 'Muslim Mujahid' Osama Bin Laden To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memri.org/legacy/clip/0/0/0/0/0/343/2910 . Following ...
Introduction On April 2, 2012, the Iranian website Khabar Online, which is considered close to the circles of Majlis speaker Ali Larijani, featured portions of an interview by Expediency Council Chairman Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani that originally appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of the Iranian International Studies Journal . 1 Rafsanjani is considered to have been the right-hand man of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and since the establishment of Iran's Islamic regime in 1979 has held very ...
Introduction Recently, the Saudi government press, as well as Arab media and social networks, reported on student demonstrations in several Saudi universities in protest of poor learning conditions. Initially, the Saudi press reported on a demonstration held by female students at King Khalid University in Abha (a city in 'Asir province). 1 Later, the Saudi press, as well as social networks and anti-Saudi sources (such as Iranian and Syrian websites), reported that the student demonstrations had ...
In light of the ongoing violence in Syria and the helplessness of the Arab world and the international community to stop it, several Arab columnists leveled harsh criticism at the U.S. and U.S. President Barack Obama for their handling of the crisis. The columnists, most prominent among them Tariq Alhomayed, editor of the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat , accused the U.S. of misreading the situation in the Middle East, of failing to take a firm stand against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and ...
