The next Nakba
“HE said flat out, don’t talk to me about history,” Aaron David Miller says of Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law and the architect of the ‘deal of the century’…
Dangers of retribution
Retribution is often seen as positive in a society where it is widely believed that crime or wrongdoing must be met with an act of retribution such as a jail…
Throwing the book
THERE may come a time when Donald Trump proclaims himself to be the saviour of the American publishing industry. After all, never before have the first four years of any…
Arshad is the true Pakistan
It was 2500 years ago that Heraclitus defined change as the only constant. As nations gaining independence with or even after us prospered, Pakistan’s only constant has remained the apathy…
Predictable decline of ANC
The results of South Africa’s general elections have delivered a stunning blow to the ruling African National Congress (ANC), depriving it for the first time since it came to power…
Stirring up the soul, is it?
Is it déjà vu? Is it an illusion? Is it a knee-jerk? Is it real? Is it happening? These are all the questions that arise the minute the word “change”…
Haiti ex-coup leader Guy Philippe demands PM resign, wants presidency
Guy Philippe, who helped lead a coup in Haiti in 2004 and returned to the Caribbean island last year after serving a prison sentence in the US, demanded on Friday…
Israel’s ‘failed’ strategy
Israel and its supporters want to destroy Hamas, and kill the “human animals”, as the Israeli defence minister called Palestinians. Such a genocidal strategy will not work. Even if Israel…
Give peace a chance
Thirty years ago on September 13, 1993 Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands to seal the ‘Oslo Accords’, which were supposed to lead to a permanent settlement of the…
The Yasin Malik case
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India recently filed a plea before the Delhi High Court seeking to convert the life imprisonment sentence awarded to Yasin Malik almost a year…
