A fresh start in South Asia is possible if India and Pakistan can put their disputes behind them and walk forward together in friendship, writes Aijaz Zaka Syed

While the football crisis will eventually die down, with calm and relative peace restored, it is indeed a new kind of crisis: one largely out of the hands of those in power, writes Abdel-Moneim Said

It's one thing to criticise Barack Obama but another to infer that life under George W Bush was better, writes James Zogby

In colonial historiography, the victims are almost always silent, writes Ramzy Baroud

"The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the foremost minds of the ruled class, the more stable and dangerous becomes its rule. " M Shahid Alam discovers more than a grain of truth in the words of Marx in today's Pakistan

Tariq Osman Hyder considers Indian-Pakistani relations on the anniversary of the Mumbai bombings

Chameleon because so ill-defined, political Islam continues to pose a threat to the well-being of all Muslims, writes Galal Nassar