Up to 11 military planes, three civil planes and 14 ships are still searching for a plane that went down 32 days ago and has cost $44 million without any result.
As elections season gets under way in earnest across the region, the most pressing question on many minds is whether the ballot box can be equated with democracy and the rule of law.
It has been more than a year since US Secretary of State John Kerry launched his Middle East shuttle diplomacy in an effort to restart stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
The general dearth of positive news out of Kabul partly accounts for the enthusiasm generated by last Saturday’s presidential and local council elections.
How do you think a US airport would react to someone from the Middle East or Asia or Africa leaving the country with three live bullets in his jacket pocket?
Nothing can be more disgraceful and shameful for a political party than the charge that its election manifesto — the sacrosanct document for any political party entering the battle of the ballot —
