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Posts Tagged ‘UNSC’

NPT Review 2010

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Jun 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Eighth Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference  was an interesting event. Distinct feature of this conference was a year long concerted preparatory campaign lead by President Obama. Significant events of this marathon drive were: articulation of Prague Agenda in April 2009, passage of unanimous UNSC Resolution 1887 on Prague Agenda, in September 2009, signing of [...]



India’s struggle to get Non-permanent seat in the UNSC

By Afshain Afzal • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Features

Political statements coming from the office of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are not very encouraging. Analysts have started a renewed debate on the future of Jammu & Kashmir state and seriously ponder if Kashmir is not an issue at all and mere related to Kashmiris’ grievance regarding governance and development. In fact India wants [...]



Like Gaza, Muslim World Won’t Help Pakistan When India Attacks

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Gaza is burning and Gazans are dying, 99% of them Muslims. Egypt keeps its’ blockage of Gaza and supports Israel silently while the Arab world utter some weak squeals from their harems amidst the beauties of world. Who cares for Gaza, when the oil prices are dropping like hell and the sustenance of the luxuries [...]



Hezbollah’s Passion: A New lesson of war

By A Khokar • Jan 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In the recent history of Middle East; Hezbollah’s passion demonstrated in the Lebanon War 0f 2006 has shown a new way to the Arabs in particular and also to all the resilient resistance movements struggling for their freedom around the world that nothing dares standing in the way of their ‘will power’.
A rag-tag Hezbollah; when [...]



Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims

By fzuberi • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:16:21 GMT

Medics tell Press TV they have found traces of depleted uranium in some Gaza residents wounded in Israel’s ground offensive on the strip.
Norwegian medics told Press TV correspondent Akram al-Sattari that some of the victims who have been wounded since Israel began its attacks on the Gaza Strip on [...]



Gaza Crisis & Barack Obama’s Silence

By Swaraaj Chauhan • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Gaza crisis has been described as a recurring Middle Eastern nightmare. I can understand why US president-elect has decided to keep quiet. He has inherited a tragedy/madness whose history dates back to almost 100 years of political skulduggery of the powerful Western nations in that part of the world dividing the Jews and Arabs who [...]



This Kind of War

By Justin Podur • Jan 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The current crisis in Gaza began with Israel’s breaking the ceasefire with Hamas on November 4, 2008. The five-month ceasefire was unsustainable for two reasons. First and most importantly, because it condemned the Palestinians of Gaza to a slow and wasting death: part of the ceasefire was the continuation of Israel’s blockade of Gaza. As [...]



Giving Israel more Time to Weaken Hamas in Gaza

By A Khokar • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Daily Haaretz, Jerusalem (not so conservative) Israeli news paper says in their analysis:
 The international community, headed by the U.S. and Egypt, is giving Israel time to carry out the ground offensive in Gaza, so it will severely damage Hamas’ regime. The rationale behind such a move is that a weakened Hamas would improve the chances [...]



The Silent War in Gaza

By Guest Blogger • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The Israeli blitzkrieg in Gaza rages on….. silently.
Reports of WMD’S in the form of cluster bombs and white phospherus bombs leaked out late yesterday…. today there is silence. Silence not due to the end of hostilities, but due to few or no reports getting out of Gaza. The few journalists that remain have no means [...]



Israel Attacked Gaza Upon Obama’s Request

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Barack H. Obama who represented “Change” in the world has asked Israeli Zionist to get over with the Gaza and break the Hamas before he takes control of the America this year. Obama wants to reduce problems for him as much as possible and he wants to take control of Middle East, before he iron-out [...]