Asad Mirza SAUDI ARABIA, it seems is ready to renounce its enmity with its old foes and ready to amend ties with both Iran and Israel. Indications to the change in the Saudi view towards Iran and Israel came last week. In an interview given by the Saudi Crown Prince...
Several nations (at the cost of much-needed social expenditure) spend an impressive quantum of money on their defence militaries. From tanks, aircraft carriers, personnel costs and other pieces of equipment, running an organised armed force is expensive Fr. Cedric...
By Q M Jalal Khan In the context of modern European political conflicts and conflict resolutions, the name of Crimea is very much on the surface, resonant not just for the last few years but actually centuries. This short piece takes a brief look at the strategically...
By Rabbi Allen S. Maller More than one and a half million people fleeing war torn Ukraine have crossed into neighboring countries in the first 10 days of the Russian attack on Ukraine the UN high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi says. It has become the...
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...