Why the Weird and Uncompromising Get Elected
Why is it that the US and Britain have
chosen weird uncompromising leaders when the essence of statesmanship is
calculated compromise. Worse, if not shocking, is...
Secularism in India: Disparity in theory and practice
Authors: Areeja Syed and Kinza Shaheen*
Secularism is adopted by most of the
contemporary states. The three intrinsic principles of secularism are freedom of belief, that...
Why is Iran meeting with Arab Gulf States?
KSA and UAE
differences on Syria and Yemen: Reasonable Differences or a Clash?
How the Media
Created an Impression of a Major Rift and Widened Misunderstandings
In recent
months,...
Death of female Iranian soccer fan puts FIFA and Asian soccer body in the dock
When Sahar Khodayari this week set herself alight in front of a Tehran
courthouse, she indicted world soccer body FIFA, its Asian regional group, the
Asian...
Chandrayaan-2 was really a failure, but for whom?
Before leaving Pakistan I had written an article
“India’s Space Diplomacy in 2017: Where Pakistan Is Standing?” published in Weekly
Technology Times. In that article I...
Yemen Conflict and OIC: The role of the powerful states
Authors: Muhammad Rizwan and Tajjalla
Munir*
Yemen is an important Muslim state located
on southern border of Saudi Arabia. It is situated adjacent to Red Sea, which
is...
Ethiopia and Russia Need to Catch Up
“There is a need to catch up. We agreed to
hold meetings regularly,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a media
conference after diplomatic talks with...
Playing politics: Trump and Netanyahu risk sparking nuclear arms race
Afghan president Ashraf Ghani may not be the only one to have welcomed US President
Donald J. Trump’s cancellation of peace talks with the Taliban....
US-North Korea Crisis Decision- Making: Growing Risks Of Inadvertent Or Unintended Nuclear War In Asia
"We fell
in love!"-US President Donald Trump, referring to North Korean dictator Kim
Jung Un after Singapore Summit (June 2018)
Credo quia
absurdum, warned the ancient philosophers. "I...
Undestanding the Gulf States: The European Perspective
Mitchell Belfer is President of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre, a
Rome-based organization that is engaged in building political and economic
bridges between European countries and the...