Few other places in the world are as future-oriented as Dubai. Carlo Ratti DUBAI – “Connecting minds, creating the future,” the slogan of World Expo 2020, is everywhere in this city. The ongoing event, which opened a year late in October 2021, is the first of its kind...
By Frank F Islam The brazenness with which Russia attacked Ukraine signals that the multipolar world order Moscow and Beijing are seeking may be near — or already here. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has seemingly upended the three-decade-long, post-Cold War,...
FS Aijazuddin IN the film Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks finds himself unwittingly caught in various crises. Cinema-goers will recognise the parallel with the prime minister’s mistimed visit to Moscow. Could there have been a more improbable scenario than a Third World PM...
By Zafar-Islam Khanul After a lull in the wake of Partition riots (1947), India has consistently seen communal, meaning anti-Muslim, riots since early 1960s. Governments and political leaders have been complicit or complacent in these gory events which are meant to...
FS Aijazuddin In the film Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks finds himself unwittingly caught in various crises. Cinema-goers will recognise the parallel with the prime minister’s mistimed visit to Moscow. Could there have been a more improbable scenario than a Third World PM...
Ghulam Osmanyaghma From time to time, international institutions and organisations seek access to the concentration camps to inspect the Uighur genocide. China has thus far not granted them access, however if they did, would the truth be uncovered? These groups know...
ANKARA: The presidents of Turkiye and Belarus spoke by phone early Tuesday on the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Belarusian counterpart Aleksandr Lukashenko discussed Monday’s negotiations between delegations...
Putin is no friend to Muslims, or to the Global South. But the Western liberal order that he is competing with may still come in second in a popularity contest against him. Mosharraf Zaidi FOR Vladimir Putin, the news from Ukraine is not good. Russia’s invasion of...
By Asad Raza After a continuous barrage of criticism for overlooking the Russian aggression dubbed as its naiveté, Germany has announced new military plans, which might change the regional and global geopolitics dimensions once again. In a historic announcement to the...
One can only hope that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is over soon. The consequences of a conflict that does not end soon will be calamitous. A G NOORANI THERE is absolutely nothing that can justify Russia’s attack on Ukraine on Feb 24. History is relevant always but...