United States of America (USA) Archive
Yemen conflict: Pakistan is sitting on a time bomb – Khalid Muhammad: This past week has been like no other in Pakistan’s history. We are used to watching our own country projecting conspiracy theories and rumors as information, but rarely is there a national debate on whether Pakistan should be involved
Holy places and unholy alliances – Jalees Hazir: Much has been said about the security of our holy places in Makkah and Madina as a reason for Pakistan to join the Saudi-led war of aggression against Yemen. In the present context, these concerns are misleading and are
Middle East conundrum – Zahid Hussain: IT has never been easy to navigate the labyrinth of the Middle East’s ever-changing politics, but it is becoming even more challenging with the growing confusion over shifting alliances. The Saudi-led military action in Yemen and agreement among
Operation Yemen Liberation – Asad Rahim Khan: Some context, to start with: Mr Nawaz Sharif is Prime Minister of Pakistan — his third try. His second ended in Jeddah, whence a long, loving bond was established. He returned in 2007 (two years early, despite Lebanon’s Saad
Pakistan can’t afford another war to aid House of Saud – Farheen Rizvi: According to Pakistan foreign office spokesperson, Tasnim Aslam, the terrror-torn nation is considering taking part in Saudi’s offensive against Yemeni rebels – the Houthis. “Pakistan is examining the matter,” Aslam said, recently. The questions that arise here are,
British MP George Galloway warns Pakistan govt to refrain from sacrificing Pakistani soldiers in support of Saudi attack on Yemen.: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153175436274561 British MP George Galloway warns Pakistan govt to refrain from sacrificing Pakistani soldiers in support of Saudi attack on Yemen. Posted by Let Us Build Pakistan on Saturday, March 28, 2015
کسے خبر تھی کہ لے کر چراغِ مصطفویؐ جہاں میں آگ لگاتی پھرے گی بو لہبی ’’ آلِ سعود ” – از عادل علی: امریکہ نے افغانستان پر حملہ کیا، انہوں نے امریکہ کا بھر پور ساتھ دیا۔ امریکہ نے عراق پر حملہ کیا، انہوں نے آنکھ بند کر کے امریکہ کی حمایت کر دی۔ اسرائیل نے (۲۰۰۶ میں) لبنان پر حملہ کر
حکومت ڈیڑھ ارب ڈالر کے بدلے حکومت قومی جذبات سے نہ کھیلے – ثروت عجز قادری – سربراہ سنی تحریک: سنی تحریک کے سربراہ ثروت اعجاز قادری نے حکومت پاکستان سے مطالبہ کیا ہے کہ پاکستانی فوج کو یمنی عوام کے خلاف سعودی جنگ میں نہ دھکیلا جائے، کیونکہ مسلم ملک کے خلاف فرقہ وارانہ مہمم جوئی کا حصہ
Why Pakistan may be a reluctant ally in Saudis’ Yemen campaign – Omar Waraich: Still, it now finds itself drawn into a geopolitical alliance with a strongly sectarian pallor. This isn’t first time Pakistan has been dragged into the poisonous Saudi-Iranian rivalry. After the 1979 revolution that brought the Ayatollahs to power,
یمنی کھچڑی ذرا احتیاط سے کھائیے – از وسعت اللہ خان: جن زیدی شیعوں کے خلاف سعودی عرب اور اس کے خلیجی ساتھی آج یکجا ہیں کبھی یمن پر ہزار برس حکومت کرنے والے یہی زیدی شیعہ سعودیوں اور ان کے اتحادیوں کی آنکھ کا تارہ تھے اور بات بھی
Yemen about to make Saudi Arabia very unhappy – by Ziad Fadel: No, this is not Nellie Fox, the legendary American baseball player. He is a typical Yemeni who is about to be turned into a savage fighting machine thanks to the blundering of the Saudi apes. There are 2
A Palestinian blogger’s perspective on Saudi Arabia’s attack on Yemen: Just yesterday I wrote that the Saudis would not dare to attack Yemen. I was wrong with this: While the Saudi army is now sending some troops to its southern border with Yemen neither the Saudi army nor the
عدوان آل سعود – تم عنقریب شکت کھاو گے – عامر حسینی: ابراہیم الامین عرب کے ایک ایسے صحافی ہیں جن کو ہم سعودی عرب ، آل سعود کی سیاست پر مسند حوالہ قرار دیں تو غلط نہیں ہوگا ، انھوں نے آج ایک آرٹیکل لکھا ہے انزلوا عن الشجرہ او
BBC and Dawn: Pakistan’s extremist Deobandi and Salafi clerics support Saudi attack on Yemen: Clerics and leaders of organisations representing the Deobandi school of thought clearly ‘lauded’ the government policy that emerged after Defence Minister Khawaja Asif told parliament that Pakistan was ready to defend Saudi Arabia’s “territorial integrity at any cost” but
سعودی ماتا کی جے – از تنویر اختر: شریف جاتی امرا جناب وزیراعظم ریاست “الباکستان”، آپ کی رعایا کے بچے بچے کو، اتفاق فونڈری سے سرور پیلیس تک، السعودیہ نامی آپ کی روحانی والدہ کے آپ جناب پر تمام احسانات عظیم کی تفصیلات تک ازبر ہیں ..
سعودی عرب کی یمن کے خلاف جارحیت – از خرم زکی: سعودی عرب کی یمن پر جارحیت کا مکہ اور مدینہ اور دیگر تمام مقدس مقامات بشمول جنت البقیع ( جس کو خود موجودہ سعودی حکومت تباہ کر چکی) کی حفاظت سے کیا تعلق ؟ اگر سعودی جہاز یمن پر
Mr Nawaz Sharif, the Saudi-Yemeni conflict is not our war to fight – Zulfikar Ali: As the Houthi rebels strengthen their stranglehold over the country, amid the surreptitious flight of the Yemeni president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the long raging civil war in Yemen has finally come into the international spotlight. Pakistan is, once again, at crossroads with Saudi Arabia, who
Pakistan’s long history of fighting Saudi Arabia’s wars – Ishaan Tharoor: Saudi Arabia’s campaign against Houthi rebel forces in Yemen, which began with waves of airstrikes overnight on Thursday, has laid down a new marker in the dangerously unstable Middle East. As WorldViews discussed earlier, the Saudis coordinated their
پرائی شادی میں عبد الله دیوانہ – از راجہ قنبر: سعودی عرب کے دفاع کے لئے ہماری آرمی کی خدمات فراہم کی جائیں گئیں ( کچھ تو کہہ رہے ہیں کہ کی جا چکی ہیں) اس حوالے سے چند نکات غور طلب ہیں ٭کیا حوثی قبائل نے کسی بھی
کیا پاکستان سعودی عرب کی کالونی ہے ؟ – عامر حسینی: یمن میں جیسے ہی حوثی قبائیل اور اس کے اتحادیوں نے امریکہ اور وھابی عرب ریاستوں کے پٹھو صدر ھادی عبدربہ کی آخری پناہ گاہ عدن کے اہم فوجی اڈے پر قبضہ کیا تو ھادی عبد ربہ وھاں
Kingdom of Soodi Barbaria to protect Democracy in Yemen – Syed Farrukh Abbas: After successfully exporting ” Democracy ” (read ISIS, Alqaida) to Syia and Iraq now the People’s Republic of Kingdom of Soodi Barbaria is protecting it in Yemen. Hired mercenaries from 10 countries including GCC countries, Egypt, Morocco, Qatar, Kuwait,
Becoming a part of a Saudi-led coalition will be stupidity at its most stupid – Ejaz Haider: Editor’s note : Very good column by Ejaz Haider on the Saudi invasion of Yemen. Also note that Ejaz Haider clearly mentions Deobandi and Salafi militants who are massacring Shias and Sunni Sufis in Pakistan and elsewhere. A March
President Obama’s message to everyone celebrating Nowruz across the US and in countries around the world (2015): Hello! To everyone celebrating Nowruz—across the United States and in countries around the world—Nowruz Mubarak. For thousands of years, this has been a time to gather with family and friends and welcome a new spring and a new
India Today: Congressman Ed Royce, Chair of USA’s Foreign Relations Committee, speaks against the threat of radical extremism originating from Pakistani Deobandi schools: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the helm in India there is a unique opportunity to strengthen Indo-US ties especially in the economic and security sphere, an influential American lawmaker has said. “With the election of Prime Minister
“Sectarian Iranian Shia” Rachel Maddow undermining alliance of Netanyahu, the Republicans and the Democratic Republic of Saudi Arabia: After Netanyahu urged the Republican leadership in 2002 to attack Iraq for the same reasons – weapons of mass destruction – he is now urging US to attack Iran for the same reasons – with the help of
کنور کا چکن سوپ حرام – فہمیدہ ریاض: یہ روایت کافی برس پہلے شروع ہوی تھی ۔بہت پہلے جب میں انگلیند میں رہتی تھی تو ہم پر یہ صاف تھا کہ بھئ یہاں پورک کھایا جاتا ہے جو ہم نہیں کھاتے ہیں ۔ دوسرے یہ کہ گوشت
As the music burns, along with Jordanian pilots, the U.S. President denies the destruction has roots in Deobandi and Salafi Islam – by Rusty Walker: The Islamic State’s Islamic roots, within the Wahhabi Salafi and Deobandi hate cults, are being denied by U.S. President Obama. As the music burns, along with Jordanian pilots, and beheaded Coptic Christians, the term Islamic is absent in Obama
امریکی سٹیٹ ڈیپارٹمنٹ کا سپاہ صحابہ کی دہشت گردی کے بارے میں گول مول موقف: امریکی سٹیٹ ڈیپارٹمنٹ نے حالیہ دہشت گردی اور شیعہ نسل کشی کے واقعیات کی مبہم سی مذمت جاری کرتے ہوے کہا ہے کہ یہ دہشت گردی انسانیت کے خلاف جرم ہے – تقریباً اسی قسم کا رویہ جماعت اسلامی
Top al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui reveals high-level Saudi involvement in Osama bin Laden terror network: Senior members of the Saudi royal family were major al-Qaeda donors and were intimately involved with Osama bin Laden’s terror network in the 1990s, one of the group’s former members has testified to a New York court. Zacarias Moussaoui,
Eleven things women in Saudi Arabia can’t do: As Saudi Arabia mourns the death of King Abdullah, human rights groups argue he should not be remembered for championing women’s rights, despite the modest changes that he introduced. The conservative kingdom has an abysmal human right record,
The King of Hearts — an obituary: The Australian musician Nick Cave, who often touches on love and death, once mused on a great man’s last rites (his own), “The motorcade will be ten miles long, the world’ll join for a farewell song … they’ll sound
King Abdullah – a discreet but strong advocate of women – Syed Riaz Al-Malik Hajjaji: “What do you call the unelected leader of a state that beheads people in public, permits only one faith and exports an extreme form of Islam to other countries? If he happens to be Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, self-appointed
King Abdullah dead: We can’t afford not to hold Saudi Arabia’s royals to account: What do you call the unelected leader of a state that beheads people in public, permits only one faith and exports an extreme form of Islam to other countries? If he happens to be Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, self-appointed
7 shocking facts about Saudi Arabia under ‘modernizing’ reign of King Abdullah: Taken aback by the fulsome praise that the recently deceased King Abdullah has garnered from world leaders, RT has decided to assess whether his record stands up to scrutiny. The majority of eulogies went beyond the requirements of diplomatic
ژے سوئی عبداللہ – وسعت اللہ خان: چھٹے خادمِ حرمین شریفین عبداللہ بھی واصلِ جنت ہوگئے لیکن اس فراق میں اطمینان کا پہلو یہ ہے کہ ساتویں بادشاہ سلیمان نے بھی جنت مکانی عبداللہ کی پالیسیاں جاری رکھنے کا اعلان کیا ہے۔ جنت مکانی کا وجود
After King Abdullah’s death, western leaders sing false praises: For people living in dictatorships and hoping for Western support on the road to freedom, reactions to the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has been a rude awakening. It was to be expected that the passing of an
‘Nauseating’ Praise for Dead Saudi King Exposes Hypocrisy of West, Say Critics: In the wake of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz’s death early Friday, human rights observers are calling attention to the hypocrisy of laudatory remembrances that appear to ignore the dictator’s disregard for the fundamental rights of Saudi citizens
Syria Redux in Yemen: Robert Fisk exposes the Saudi-West hypocrisy in attacking the Shia Houthis and Al-Qaeda at the same time: “US drone strikes in Yemen, largely unmonitored by the West’s media, were directed against al-Qaeda, supposedly on behalf of the Saudi-supported Yemeni government. But in December 2009, Houthi spokesmen began to catalogue a series of US raids against their
Saudi King’s death and West’s double standards – by Jim Pivonka: “John Kerry on King Abdullah: “King Abdullah was a man of wisdom & vision.” “John Kerry on Hugo Chavez: “Throughout his time in office, President Chavez has repeatedly undermined democratic institutions by using extra-legal means, including politically motivated incarcerations,