New World Order is a Threat to Sovereign States

By Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad New World Order a big threat to sovereign states, speakers at an international conference say. The anti-war initiative, Perdana Global Peace Foundation, has a single goal of... Read more »

The Arab Intellectual is Resting, Not Dead

By Ramzy Baroud Whenever a new poem by Mahmoud Darwish was published in al-Quds newspaper, I rushed over to Abu Aymen’s newsstand that was located in the refugee camp’s main square. It... Read more »

Two Pak generals, one Afghan endgame

By M K Bhadrakumar Within the week two well-known Pakistani generals have spoken about the endgame in Afghanistan – Lt. General Asad Durrani, former chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence [ISI] during 1990-92 and... Read more »

Professor who defeated controversial terrorism charges, is deported from US

By Murtaza Hussain & Glenn Greenwald In 2003, Sami Al-Arian was a professor at the University of South Florida, a legal resident of the U.S. since 1975, and one of the most prominent... Read more »

Political Islam and Nassrallah (Abi Hadi)

By Tallal Salman, Translated in English by Adib S. Kawar: Muslims, Arabs and other peoples, mainly spread around Asia and Africa along with minorities in Europe and the two Americas did not... Read more »

American Sniper and the War Story we cannot tell

Unfortunately, the classic characteristics of Western movies fail to provide a framework to tell the human experience of war. Clint Eastwood's box-office smash brilliantly reads the temperature of America's ... Read more »

Why Thailand’s unemployment rate is incredibly low

Low unemployment (below 1% since 2011) due to low birth rate, lack of social insurance & informal sector with 64% of workforce (street vendors, motorbike taxis, self-employed) By Jon Fernquest Just 0.56%.... Read more »

Will Saudi Arabia adopt a new Foreign policy?

By Abdulrahman al-Rashed So far, there has been no indication that Saudi Arabia intends to follow a different foreign policy, either partially or completely. Saudi policy is usually set in stone, however the... Read more »

Free speech? Je suis confused

Yvonne Ridley Every single day since the horrific killings of the Charlie Hebdo staff, headlines around the world have been dominated by the fallout from the incident. In truth, though, each day... Read more »

The Farce of Western Freedom of Speech

Western (idea of) free speech is nothing but a cynical charade by those in power to maintain their unlawful positions of power. by Finian Cunningham Speaking outside Elysée Palace in the aftermath... Read more »

The interest of ‘only democracy in Middle East’ to block democracy in the region

by Nasim Ahmed The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ has certainly reinforced the perception that the Middle East is a hotbed of intractable conflicts. Israel has never ceased to use this stereotype to its... Read more »

What Pakistani leaders can learn from the world’s ‘poorest’ president

José Mujica – the world’s only President whose lifestyle resembles that of the people he leads by Murtaza Haider From Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari,... Read more »

Can Modi fix India’s multifaceted problems?

India suffers from a host of endemic problems including galloping population, high rate of corruption, poor socio-civic infrastructure, grinding poverty, woeful health conditions, burgeoning crimes like rape, dowry deaths, and flurry of... Read more »

School children massacre at the altar of Great Power Game

By Abdus Sattar Ghazali The stunned and shaken people of Pakistan mourned the Peshawar Army Public School massacre of 149 people including 132 children, the government announced new measures to combat terrorism.... Read more »

Peshawar massacre: All have lost moral high ground

After the Peshawar school massacre “all those who claimed the moral high ground have lost it – the ones who kill children in the name of democracy and the ones who retaliate... Read more »

The heart wrenching tragedy that struck Peshawar

On December 16, a group of seven insane human beasts stormed the Army Public School in the Peshawar city of Pakistan and murdered 141 students and instructors.. Read more »
Railway track, Bangladesh, 1983

Why The Dream of “Golden Bangal” Shattered?

As a newborn country, Bangladesh had lots of hopes and aspirations. It was time for the “Bangla Bandhu (Father of the Nation)” to materialize the dream that he had presented to the... Read more »

Fall of Dhaka: A Political Fiasco

December 16, 1971 is embedded in the history of Pakistan as a ‘black day’. Despite winning liberty unitedly, the first twenty-four years of independence of Pakistan gave rise to surprisingly varied ‘political... Read more »

A Pakistani writes from inside Guantanamo

‘The dreadful experience of the last decade has shown me that I will never receive just treatment from the American government. Now, my only hope is that my own country will listen.’... Read more »

Why the World missed the Oil price crash

On Feb. 1, 2011, oil prices rose above $100 a barrel. For the next three years, they largely stayed there, with few of the dramatic ups and downs that oil markets are... Read more »

Taliban indoctrinates kids with American-produced jihadist textbooks

By Ishaan Tharoor — After the United States helped chase out the Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001, it came across a legacy of its earlier intervention in the region. As The... Read more »

Frightening reality that haunts the Middle East

According to the Global Terrorism Index of the Institute for Economics and Peace, 13 years after the 9/11 attacks and the US spending of $4.4 trillion on the forever war and all-consuming... Read more »

Ups and downs of Oil prices

Oil remains the world’s most critical commodity. It has fuelled the industrial age. For over a century, oil politics has been almost synonymous with geopolitics; the cause of numerous wars and revolutions. Read more »

SAARC can succeed only if it loses its obsession with India-Pakistan affairs

Expectations from the South Asia Association for Regional Co-operation summit are always high even though some analysts and observers will tell you that this regional forum has repeatedly failed to bring the... Read more »