Posts Tagged: Pakistan Israel
Recognizing Israel: Any Asian Volunteers?
The question for Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is not whether either country will recognize Israel, but when and who will go first. For the past two...
Ultraconservative Triumph Puts Pakistan at Risk of Islamic Violence and Terror
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan may have temporarily averted further violence by caving in to the demands of a militant, supremacist religious group. But in...
Pakistan Struggles to Regain Its Footing in a Changing Muslim World
Increasing strains between Pakistan and its traditional Arab allies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are about more than the Gulf States’ opportunistic targeting of India’s...
Pakistani Officials Deny Rumors of Secret Normalization Talks With Israel
Pakistani officials on Wednesday vehemently denied rumors that their country was making preliminary moves toward normalizing relations with Israel. The Pakistani edition of the Saudi-based publication...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Says He’ll Never Establish Ties With ‘Zionists,’ After Facing Pressure to Recognize Israel
Pakistan’s Islamist prime minister said late last week that despite facing pressure to recognize Israel, he refuses to establish relations with the "Zionists." In a television...
Why Prospects for Israeli-Pakistani Relations Remain Dim
On October 25, an Israeli journalist tweeted that an Israeli jet had flown from Tel Aviv to Islamabad, where it spent 10 hours before flying...
Common Words Between Hebrew and Urdu
Shalom chaverim sheli ("Hello my friends"): I was so happy with the overwhelmingly positive response that my previous article, “A Pakistani Lover of Hebrew,” garnered. I want to express my...
A Pakistani Lover of Hebrew
Despite the fact that my country -- Pakistan -- doesn’t have any diplomatic relations with Israel, and despite the ubiquitous antisemitism in Pakistan, I have...
Report: Pakistan’s ISI Targeted U.S. and Israeli Consulates in India
Pakistan's intelligence agency (ISI) has a controversial history of assisting terrorists, including the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Now, the Times of India is reporting that Pakistan's ISI has...
Malala, Pakistan, and Israel
A few days ago, I was sitting at home undergoing a multicultural musical experience. I was, in fact, listening to a number of Qawwali songs...
Israeli and Pakistani News Outlets Announce Joint Venture
Tazpit, a Jerusalem based news agency, (Disclosure: The Algemeiner publishes articles from Tazpit) today announced a new cross-publishing joint venture with Weekly Press Pakistan, a...
Pakistan to Support Iran in Israel-Iranian Military Conflict
In an interview given to the British newspaper The Sun, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistan's High Commissioner to Britain, spoke mainly about U.S. drone strikes inside...