Why Erdogan is right about Hamas
Why do you think Genocide Joe – POTUS’s new nickname advocated by American Muslim champions of the Abandon Biden campaign ahead of the US election – rushed a Treasury under-…
Only Gaza will decide about its future
Now is the time, with a four-day truce in place, to listen to the resistance in Gaza about a solution to the conflict instead of imposing one on them from…
Cremation of tolerant India—I
For a very long time, India has mischievously hoodwinked the world regarding its perception. To the global audience, since 1947, when Pakistan was carved out as a ‘Muslim State’, India…
A perpetual identity crisis ( Part – II)
Indian scholar Homi K Bhabha’s analysis of ‘mimicry’ seems more realistic. The argument that mimicry has an element of menace that disrupts the authority is also true. All leaders who…
The war of liberation
What should we make of the War of Liberation of 1857 whose 166th anniversary is today – May 10? Looked at from the side of the freedom fighters it is…
Fatwas don’t work with terrorists
Pakistan’s establishment understands only too well why fatwas (religious edicts) against terrorism never work with terrorists. Its ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) partnered with America’s CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) to create the…
What is happening in Iran?
During the last few months, different news agencies including Western Persian-language media have been publishing stories on mainstream or social media – stories that raise unfair allegations against the Islamic…
A way forward for Moscow
It is true that the West did not keep its promises, reneging on its assurances that were held out to the Soviet Union just prior to the end of the…
Arms and the West
The Ukraine invasion by Russia has shocked many Westerners who had this naive belief that the horrors of war would never revisit Europe – a continent that witnessed two terrible…
Progress paradoxes
A country’s economy or economic progress is an integrated model based on multiple factors, which complement each other for the overall economic development. Almost all developed countries – from the…
