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Was Europe's largest Muslim cultural event an extremist rally in disguise or a genuine cultural festival?
Pakistan should draw the right lesson from the carnage of yesterday's blast at the Indian embassy in Kabul
It's not risk-free but it must be done: talk to them
Pashtun secularists in Pakistan's northwest begin negotiations with Islamists, including the Taliban
Experts and practitioners meet to explore a range of responses to terrorism
The science, politics and ethics of a post-invasion count
A guide through the fall-out of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Why the Afghan insurgents are reaching out beyond their heartlands 
Fighting radicalism by regulating mosques is a problematic strategy

Uttar Pradesh bombs and West Bengal protest expose a polity's failures

What's in store for Pakistan? Anatol Lieven forecasts. Listen now
Dialogue and understanding are the sharpest weapons in fighting terrorism, according to a Commonwealth study
By resisting the wall, Palestinians defend their right to politics
A night-time police-check in Sweden, and a wider lesson
The EU's counter-terror strategy is lost in cyberspace
Pervez Musharraf's game is power and survival. How long can it last? (archive)
A conference in Washington suggests the US policy establishment is opening itself more to the world

The debate about Muslims and the west must connect ideas to living realities

Geopolitics will make needed negotiations between Kabul and the Taliban impossible
The battle of ideas requires policies and serious dialogue, not just rhetoric
In a fragmented political landscape, peace is a long way off in the southern Philippines
In fighting terrorism, the White House and Downing Street need to brush up on their history
As India celebrates its 60th birthday, the bubble of liberal Indian Islam may burst under pressure from without and within
Blaming the Kurds for the dispute over Kirkuk is to miss the forest for the trees
The new Human Security Act allows the Philippines to combat terrorism while preventing human rights violations
With Kerkuk's contentious fate to be decided in December, Sheth Jerjis lays out the Turkmen case against the referendum
The right of the Moro people to self-determination need not fracture the Philippines.
As a London court delivers its verdicts on the 21/7 bombers, toD looks at the UK's recent history of terrorism trials
With sentencing scheduled for October, the procedural phase of Europe's largest terrorism trial ends.
The second in toD's roundtables on the state of the so-called "war-on-terror".
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