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Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk’s World: 'I listen as a lost people tell of their woes in a kind of trance'

These people speak with great and terrifying and justifiable anger

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Supporters of Hizbollah, which is represented in the Lebanese parliament, in the southern city of Nabatieh, Lebanon

Hizbollah's silence over Scuds speaks volumes to Israel

Friday, 16 April 2010

Robert Fisk: Fears of conflict escalate as group refuses to discuss its arsenal with Jerusalem – or the Lebanese government

Malaya 1948: another shameful episode in Britain's colonial past

Saturday, 10 April 2010

Robert Fisk: Some 24 innocent villagers were killed by Scots Guards in a pre-Vietnam My Lai

Robert Fisk’s World: Spare me the academics who only want a 'safe, positive space'

Saturday, 3 April 2010

I put my medium bomber squadron on alert to defend the English language

A magazine and book stand in Kabul. One of the creators of Al-Samoud, Abu Ahmed, says the magazine is designed to counter the fact that Afghan media 'is controlled by the West'

Glossy new front in battle for hearts and minds

Friday, 2 April 2010

Robert Fisk: Once it was grainy video footage on websites. Now the Taliban believes its best chance of winning the propaganda war lies in a magazine.

Lahore lawyers, distinctive in Western-style suits, hoist their leader Aitzaz Ahsan aloft after his release in 2008

Robert Fisk: Pakistan's advocates of justice

Thursday, 1 April 2010

The top judge is again on a collision course with the country's political leaders, this time over corruption. Robert Fisk reports from Islamabad on the judiciary's battle to uphold due process and the rule of law

Robert Fisk’s World: On the streets of Pakistan, it's as if the sun hasn't set on the Raj

Saturday, 27 March 2010

Like everything else here, the bigger your cortège, the more important you are

Robert Fisk's World: As things get worse in Pakistan, the optimism continues to soar

Saturday, 20 March 2010

Civilians have paid the price in revenge attacks that usually target the army

Aafia Siddiqui's sister Fauzia, with their mother Ismat, and Aafia's son, Ahmed, at their home in Karachi

The mysterious case of the Grey Lady of Bagram

Friday, 19 March 2010

Robert Fisk: How does a neuro- scientist and mother of three end up in jail as an al-Qa'ida agent?

A painting by Amina Janjua about missing people in Pakistan

Into the terrifying world of Pakistan's 'disappeared'

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Robert Fisk meets the wife of one of 8,000 citizens who have gone 'missing' at the hands of the state

Robert Fisk’s World: Try this reading list if you want to understand the Middle East

Saturday, 13 March 2010

The greatest problem of writing historically is that the story has not ended

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