Month: March 2015

Abdul Khaliq Farahi was Afghanistan’s Consul General to Pakistan in 2008, when he was kidnapped in Peshawar. He had already been chosen for promotion to ambassador, and was just weeks away from taking up his new post. The kidnappers were insurgents from both Afghanistan and Pakistan, but they were not directly affiliated to or controlled … Read more

The murder of Boris Nemtsov was Vladimir Putin’s fault. There is absolutely no doubt about that, at least not in the minds of the editors of the mainstream media. The first reports I heard on the shooting were on Radio 4, and they were repeated evry half hour or hour through the day. They unfailingly … Read more