Delhi versus Srinagar?
Last week's massacre in Kashmir has cast a shadow over the policies of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's state government. But is India's BJP-led central government exploiting this incident to further its own political agenda, ask Murad Bukhari and Sudhanshu Ranjan from New Delhi

Pakistan under pressure
Pakistan's new government is facing serious teething problems, reports Iffat Malik from Islamabad

Crisis over conversions
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has passed a bill outlawing "forced" religious conversions. Low-caste Hindus have reacted with outrage, threatening to renounce Hinduism en masse. Shaikh Azizur-Rahman reports from Calcutta

Respecting the other
Thomas Ford examines how race, ethnicity and the push for quick justice in the US has affected domestic law enforcement and immigration

Shoebomber connections
The arrest by French police of eight suspected Islamists connected with British shoebomber Richard Reid is part of a wider crackdown bringing the total up to 19 in the past week alone, writes David Tresilian in Paris

False dawn
What implications do NATO's recent expansion plans have on an invasion of Iraq? Not many, writes James Corbett in London

Zero tolerance for Arab activists
Racism killed a Moroccan in Belgium, but the establishment wants someone else's head. Amira Howeidy investigates the case of Belgium's Malcolm X

Kissinger, the investigator
Is Kissinger the right man to get behind the security failures which led to 9/11, asks Ayman El-Amir

The Thanksgiving bombshell
To many people's chagrin, the controversial former US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, has been named as chairman of an independent investigation into the 11 September attacks. Khaled Dawoud reports from Washington

How roguish a white Russian?
Shohdy Naguib from Moscow finds out how Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko was humbled