حلب نامہ – قاری حنیف ڈار: شام کے شہر حلب میں مظالم نے اسرائیل کے شقی القلب یہودیوں کو بھی پیچھے چھوڑ دیا ھے ،، ھر ملک اپنی اپنی جنگ شام میں لے آیا ھے اور قیمت شامیوں کا خون ادا کر رھا ھے ،
Citizen Journalism on Syria – by Janice Korthamp: I knew this trip would be an emotional roller coaster…and I had no idea. I have been in non-stop meetings with goverment ministers, high level officials as well as talking with soldiers, office workers, taxi drivers etc. thanks
Syria: The real US-NATO creators of hell in Aleppo: As US and NATO propaganda reaches another crescendo in Aleppo, it is important to remind ourselves of a few salient facts. First and foremost we need to understand that the prevailing force occupying Aleppo and terrorising civilians is
Uyghur Militants in Syria: The Turkish Connection: The Chinese authorities have claimed that since 2013, “hundreds” of Uyghurs have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State and other jihadist organizations; such claims have been used as justification for new counter-terrorism policies (Xinhua, July
Saudi government has vast network of PR, lobby firms in U.S: The Saudi government and its affiliates have spent millions of dollars on U.S. law, lobby and public relations firms to raise the country’s visibility in the United States and before the United Nations at a crucial time. And some of Washington’s premier law and lobby
World played with fire in Syria, scholar says – John Rosenthal: Pakistan was greatly damaged when the military dictator Genreral Zia ul Haq streamlined the practice of using radical Deobandi and Wahhabi (Ahle Hadith) militants as an instrument of foreign policy. His successor PM Nawaz Sharif has never explicitly
Why the Arabs don’t want us in Syria: In part because my father was murdered by an Arab, I’ve made an effort to understand the impact of U.S. policy in the Mideast and particularly the factors that sometimes motivate bloodthirsty responses from the Islamic world against our
Shifting balance in the Middle East – Riaz Malik Hajjaji: The shifting balance in the Middle East is causing understandable heartburn to many folks. A certain section of Pakistan’s intelligensia – both “liberal” and Jamaatia (though at times, it is difficult to tell the difference) is busy churning
Why Netanyahu is wrong about Iran nuclear deal – by Matthew Bunn: Cambridge, Mass. — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that this weekend’s nuclear deal with Iran increases Iran’s chances of building nuclear weapons. He’s exactly wrong – so much so that nuclear weapons advocates in Tehran are probably hoping
Israel may join defense pact with Saudi Arabia, UAE: Israel is working on joining an anti-Iran defense alliance with a number of moderate Arab states that would involve sharing Jerusalem’s newly developed anti-missile technologies, a British newspaper reported Sunday. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email
Al-Qaeda infiltrating Syrian opposition – Washington Post: Members of al-Qaeda have infiltrated Syrian opposition groups, and likely executed recent bombings in the nation’s capital and largest city, the United States’ top intelligence official said Thursday. The remarks by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are
Pigeons of the Middle East and Africa – by Shiraz Paracha: The imperialist attack on Libya is yet another reminder that capitalism is governed by Machiavellian principles and is based on lies and deceit. Western politicians lie to their own public and every few years Western countries go to bloody
Faith in trade – by Nadeem F. Paracha: The urban trader class in Muslim countries — usually comprising middle-class urbanites — is a conservative section of society. In Pakistan too it has been one of the most willing recipients of faith-based socio-political trends and phenomena that began
Death of autarchy – by R.A. Toori: George Orwell said: repression is the seed of revolution. The term repression is quite wide in its spectrum as it contains meaning of suppression, tyranny, exploitation, injustice, poverty, inflation and subjugation. All these are the motivating factors that contribute