Netanyahu’s game-plan
As Israel goes ahead with its sordid plan of razing buildings in Palestinian territories through aerial bombardment, attacking worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque and killing Palestinians including children in the latest…
Biden’s Middle East challenge
Despite President Trump’s reluctance to concede defeat, in a major departure from a time-honoured tradition, President-elect Joe Biden is busy receiving congratulatory messages from the world capitals. The latest to…
Israel, Pakistan and the Muslim World
After Makkah and Medina, Jerusalem is the holiest place on earth for Muslims all over the world. There is no Muslim who has no respect for Masjid al-Haram in Makkah,…
Where the onus lies
President Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last week evoked extreme reactions. Pakistan, rightly, did not lag behind in expressing its rejection of the American president’s move by…
A glimpse of hell
The phrase “hell on earth” was recently used by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to describe the situation in Eastern Ghouta, Syria. The previous week was particularly horrific. The airstrikes…
Trump and Israel
The right-wingers have been bamboozled. Last week, the Dutch epitomised why hatemongering can’t work everywhere all the time. Modi, Trump and Netanyahu were fortunate enough to have come out victorious…
Hope emerges from Istanbul
In the incessantly destroyed national and individual lives of Palestinians – by so many global and regional powers and people – hope for a better future was never going to…
Need to carve new pathways
Among deafening chants of resurgence, Pakistan seems to be getting increasingly embroiled in suicidal entanglements that it would be better to stay away from. Among several others, there are two…
The fourth ‘A’
THE United Nations General Assembly functions as an air-pump: it inflates the egos of national leaders. The UNGA provides them a stage in New York where, (in Shakespeare’s words), they…
The Muslim cause
THE exhausted, brutalised people of Gaza have been promised a let-up in Israel’s relentless assaults at numerous points over the past two years. Yet the bombs have continued to drop.…
