The map shown by Altaf Hussain MQM, during his Press Conference with redrawn borders arrangement of Pakistan is not something new that we may have come across. This is a known conspiracy theory which is said to be breeding in Pakistan. In fact he is referring to an old known puke spewed once by one [...]
After yesterday’s shocking news for Saudi Arabian expatriates. A statement that is like a sigh of relief and relaxation has been given by Saudi Labor Minister Adel Fakeih. Summery of this statement is that. Expatriates should not worry about their future in Saudi Arabia and We (Saudi Govt) didn’t forget you any moment in any [...]
The yawning gap between the elite and the disempowered, job-less and oppressed Egyptians has finally forced the downtrodden to caste all their fears aside and change their destiny. The Egyptians are following footsteps of Tunisians who successfully ousted president Zain El Abidin Ben Ali who had ruled the country for more than two decades with [...]
For last about a decade or so we all find ourselves put up against a phoney Global War against Terrorism, where Western Forces with their might and savagery are all out at war in Muslim World to conquer an unspecified imaginary enemy called—terror. After wandering for several years and with no achievements at hand; the [...]
Well wishers of a genuine nuclear disarmament regime are enthused about the ‘International Disarmament Conference’ being hosted by Islamic Republic of Iran. As a peaceful nation, Iran was first to float the idea of making the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone in the mid seventies. During the UN General Assembly meetings of 2005, 2007, [...]
These days nuclear matters are on the centre stage of international affairs. America’s ‘Nuclear Posture Review’ (NPR) and signing of ‘Nuclear Arms Treaty’ between USA and Russia had set the wheel in motion for the far more trickier event of ‘Nuclear Security Summit’ (NSS), where around forty seven states are deliberating the measures to strengthen [...]
The United Arab Emirates’ plan to become the first Arab country to operate a nuclear power plant is a step closer to fruition with the announcement in December 2009 that it had selected a Korean consortium to build four nuclear-power reactors. Though other Gulf States have in recent years declared their intention to explore nuclear [...]
It’s true that Pakistani ISI and American CIA with the help of other Western powers and Middle East powers helped created Mujahideens of 80s, in which Pakistan was the front line state, and this ragtag force equipped with state-of-the-art weapons defeated USSR, which resulted in it’s historic breakup.
That was then surely in the interest of [...]
Abba – zeest k warq per chann’d ek adhoori satrein, kuch mitti huwi, kuch mad’hamm, kuch bhoolai gaeein, kuch aansoo’oan say nehlaai gaeein, kuch dard bhari per ziaada tehleel kardi gaeein
Iman – woh Gosha, woh tijaarat jo kisi mehnat ya sanyaas k baad na mila, buss kissi gunahgaar k do gumnaam say aansoo is samander [...]
Dennis Ross’ redeployment from the State Department to a more prominent position at the NSC in the White House raises two sets of interrelated questions. Why, and with what consequences? Competing answers to the former include the following. (1) Ross was relieved of his Iran policy coordinator brief so as to remove a possible obstacle [...]
