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Martin Luther King Day in Civil Rights Era Compared to Prejudice, Ethnic and Religious, in Pakistan and Abroad – by Rusty Walker: I wish to commemorate Martin Luther King Day by some background that relates to all nations and their oppressed minorities, and then relating a few personal stories. Martin Luther King (MLK) was supported by a wide spectrum of Americans:
The Perils of Embedded Journalism: How Jürgen Todenhöfer ends up glamourising ISIS: In his interviews with ISIS which he highlighted on ABC and CNN as well as his own Facebook note, German Journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer glamourises ISIS and misrepresents their “success”. His reporting is a example of poor journalism which lacks
Not unlike Benizar Bhutto, Salmaan Taseer was assassinated for his belief in a pluralistic and democratic Pakistan: About the author: Rusty Walker is an educator, author, political commentator, ex-military, from a military family, retired college professor, former Provost (Collins College, U.S.A.), artist, musician and family man. Rusty Walker is an ardent supporter of Pakistan. The Tragic
حقایق کیا ھیں: افغانستان میں نیٹو کا جنگی آپریشن ختم کرنے کا اعلان اور طالبان کا اعلان فتح ۔ نور درویش: گارڈین کے مطابق تیرہ سالہ جنگ کے بعد نیٹو نے افغانستان میں اپنے جنگی آپریشن کے اختتام کا اعلان کر دیا ھے اور اب سپورٹ آپریشن کی صورت میں اپنا رول ادا کرے گا ۔ سیکیورٹی کے انتظام
US foreign policy – the ignored cause of hindrance to girls education – Rehan Naqvi: Malala Yousufzai is co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 for her efforts for girls education. Girls being deprived of the right to education by Muslim extremists is an effect of many causes.Therefore, in addition to establishing schools and condemning the
Iran-US is the only coalition that makes sense to defeat ISIS – by Ali Abbas Taj: There is immense pressure on both sides, Iran and the USA, to continue on a path of diplomatic confrontation. For the United States, there is a concerted effort by the sectarian Salafist Saudi/Qatari/Turkish lobby to scuttle any
جنوبی کوریا کی عورتوں، قومی غیرت اور امریکی فوج کی کہانی جو امریکہ نواز لبرل آپ کو کبھی نہیں سنائیں گے: ماضی میں ایک امریکی فوجی اڈے کے نزدیک کام کرنے والی 120 سابق طوائفوں نے جوبی کوریا کی حکومت کے خلاف معاوضے کے لیے عدالت سے رجوع کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا ہے۔ ان کا دعویٰ ہے کہ جنوبی کوریا
تاج برطانیہ کے جدی پشتی وفادار – از خا پوے گام: یہ وہ ظبقہ ہے جنہوں نے ہمیشہ انگریزوں کی مدد کی ۔۔اس کے صلے میں ان کو القابات اور انعامات سے نوازا گیا۔عام غریب جو اس وقت فوج میں بھرتی ہویے ان کا اس طبقے سے کوٰی تعلق
NATO’s Libya: From successful model to failed state: Libya’s chaos and violence may seem like a continuum of painful replays. However, as the situation festers, the risk of extremist elements gaining a more dangerous foothold and broader freedom of action increases. Indeed, since the beginning of this
What is sectarianism in the Middle East? – Salameh Kaileh and Victorios Shams: Salameh Kaileh: The sect is a community that subscribes to certain religious beliefs from the past. These beliefs, at the time of their formation, were the expression of the ideological and class conceptualisation of a certain social group. This conceptualisation
The debt we owe the army and PAF – Ayaz Amir: Amidst fierce fighting three more of our soldiers died on Sunday in a remote spot close to the Afghan border in North Waziristan. This was another reminder, if any were needed, of the grimness of the conflict raging there
Dogmatically complicated: Will President Obama care to name the pure evil that beheaded Peter Kassig? – by Abdul Nishapuri: It seems that despite his conversion to Islam, Peter Kassig was considered an infidel or kafir by the ISIS because he had not converted to the violent Wahhabi or Deobandi cult. Unlike the Wahhabi and Deobandi murderers and terrorists, Kassig was
Getting Close to Terror, but Not to Stop It: Editor’s Note : Are the suicide bombing, Shia-Hindu-Sufi-Zikri killing Jundullah another example of “moderate” rebels that should be supported. Oh why Not! Supporting Salafi-Deobandi terrorist groups has worked out great since inviting the Muslim Brotherhood to the White House
Our Friends in Riyadh – by Toby C. Jones: Last Wednesday, a criminal court in Saudi Arabia sentenced Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, one of the kingdom’s most visible political dissidents, to death. Saudi authorities have justified the verdict in terms of national security. Convicted on vague
Libyan model for Syria? The West is silent as Libya falls into the abyss – Patrick Cockburn: Remember the time when Libya was being held up by the American, British, French and Qatari governments as a striking example of benign and successful foreign intervention? It is worth looking again at film of David Cameron grandstanding
There’s only one way to beat ISIS: work with Assad and Iran – by Leslie H. Gelb: The Obama administration has pulled together a coalition as ineffectual as it is unwilling. It’s time to join up with the forces, however unsavory, that can do the job. Earlier this week, outside Washington, the Obama team hosted senior
آسٹریلوی سلفی دیوبندی دہشت گرد کی وائٹ ہاؤس پر داعش کا جھنڈا لہرانے کی دھمکی: شام اور عراق میں دولتِ اسلامیہ میں شمولیت اختیار کرنے والے ایک آسٹریلوی نوجوان نے ایک ویڈیو پیغام میں آسٹریلیا کے وزیرِ اعظم ٹونی ایبٹ اور امریکی صدر براک اوباما کو مخاطب کیا ہے۔ سترہ سالہ عبداللہ المیر نے،
War against Isis: US air strategy in tatters as militants march on – Patrick Cockburn: America’s plans to fight Islamic State are in ruins as the militant group’s fighters come close to capturing Kobani and have inflicted a heavy defeat on the Iraqi army west of Baghdad. The US-led air attacks launched against Islamic
نواز شریف کی خارجہ پالیسی ناکام – ایاز امیر اور نذیر ناجی: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/oct2014-daily/15-10-2014/col1.html Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-10-16&edition=LHR&id=38718_33490925
Time to kick Turkey out of NATO?: The Kurdish town of Kobane in western Syria is under siege by the Islamic State. A U.S.-led coalition has hit at the jihadists sieging Kobane—with 13 strikes on Wednesday and Thursday—but bombs alone may not suffice. It is the
The Gulf members of the anti-ISIS coalition: hypocrisy and secret agendas – Sabah Ayoub: This US Air Forces Central Command photo shows an F-22A Raptor refueling in the US Central Command area of responsibility prior to strike operations in Syria on September 26, 2014. These aircraft were part of a large coalition strike
Iran, the Thinkable Ally – Roger Cohen: LONDON — Breakfast last week in New York with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran was a cordial affair, bereft of the fireworks of his predecessor, whose antics made headlines and not much more. Rouhani, flanked by his twinkly-eyed foreign
Schoolgirl jihadis: the female Islamists leaving home to join Isis fighters: Zahra Halane, 16, poses with an AK-47, an Isis flag, knife and grenade. A series of tweets about her kitten, thrown out by her husband, betray her youth. Hundreds of young women and girls are leaving their homes
Meet the Syrian Islamist organization controlling Senator McCain’s agenda – Daniel Greenfield: A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a high profile article from one Elizabeth O’Bagy arguing that the majority of the Syrian rebels were actually moderates. Senator McCain mentioned Elizabeth O’Bagy’s op-ed during the Senate hearings, when
The Ancestors of ISIS – David Motadel: CAMBRIDGE, England — IN the last few years, there has been a dramatic rise of a seemingly new type of polity: the Islamic rebel state. Boko Haram in West Africa, the Shabab in East Africa, the Islamic Emirate
شام میں پاکستانی دیوبندی بھی دہشت گردی میں شامل ہیں – امریکی محکمہ انصاف: امریکہ کے محکمۂ خارجہ کے ترجمان نے امریکی انٹیلی جنس اداروں کے حوالے سے بتایا ہے کہ شام میں دیگر ممالک کے لوگوں کی طرح پاکستانی دیوبندی بھی موجود ہیں لیکن اُنھیں یہ نہیں معلوم کہ وہ دولتِ اسلامیہ
مڈل ایسٹ – آل سعود ، وہابی مذھبی اسٹبلشمنٹ ، مسلم بنیاد پرستی اور واشنگٹن – پہلا حصّہ – عامر حسینی: مڈل ایسٹ میں اس وقت جو بھی سماجی – سیاسی حالات ہیں ان میں جہاں عالمی طاقتوں کی حریفانہ کشاکش کا دخل ہے وہیں اس میں عرب ریاستوں کی داخلی و خارجی صورت حال سے ابھرنے والی علاقائی سیاست
War on ISIS: Robert Fisk’s column on Syrian Parliament’s Speaker’s letter to the US Senate and Congress: The letter from the Speaker of the Syrian parliament, Mohamed Jihad al-Laham, asserts that the “moderate” Syrian opposition which the US has promised to aid and train is identical to the jihadi groups supporting Isis or Isil. What was
The myth of religious violence – Karen Armstrong: As we watch the fighters of the Wahabi Deobandi Islamic State (Isis) rampaging through the Middle East, tearing apart the modern nation-states of Syria and Iraq created by departing European colonialists, it may be difficult to believe we
How U.S. interventionists abetted the rise of ISIS – Rand Paul: As the murderous, terrorist Islamic State continues to threaten Iraq, the region and potentially the United States, it is vitally important that we examine how this problem arose. Any actions we take today must be informed by what
ISIS draws a steady stream of recruits from Turkey – Ceylan Yeginsu: ANKARA, Turkey — Having spent most of his youth as a drug addict in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Turkey’s capital, Can did not think he had much to lose when he was smuggled into Syria with 10
lawmaker assails foreign donations to think tanks – Eric Lipton: WASHINGTON — Prominent Washington think tanks that routinely provide Congress with policy advice should refrain from taking foreign government donations, particularly from nations like Qatar that have been associated with financing Salafi Wahhabi Deobandi extremist groups, a senior House
ISIS launches offensive against Sunni Muslims in Iraq – Sarmad Hasan: Earlier this month, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a two-week offensive against Sunni Muslims in Iraq. ISIS is targeting Sunni tribes and residents that have refused to swear allegiance to ISIS. ISIS’ campaign started on
Al Qaeda’s Re-launch in South Asia and the role of Deobandi militants – C. Christine Fair: Lost in the hubbub over the rise of the Islamic State and the Obama administration’s move to war in Iraq was the Al Qaeda core’s declaration of a new affiliate in South Asia—long a home to jihadist activity. C.
From Ukraine to ISIS, the design is the same – Dr Abbas Zaidi: President Bashar al-Assad defied all odds, and al-Malliki, despite his incompetence and the practically US-backed independent Kurdistan, kept Iraq in one piece. It was not easy to withstand the collective US-EU-UAE-Turkey-Saudi Arabia assault. We must not forget Australia
To crush ISIS, make a deal with Assad – Ahmad Samih Khalidi: LONDON — LAST week, President Obama virtually declared war on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. But it is hard to reconcile the seemingly urgent need to confront the threat posed by this organization with the chosen
How U.S. Interventionists Abetted the Rise of ISIS – by Rand Paul: As the murderous, terrorist Islamic State continues to threaten Iraq, the region and potentially the United States, it is vitally important that we examine how this problem arose. Any actions we take today must be informed by what we’ve
Top 5 contradictions in Obama’s emerging ISIL strategy – by Juan Cole: In the past week, Secretary of State John Kerry has marshaled support of some sort from both European nations and from countries in the Middle East for the US push against ISIL. Unfortunately, the resulting coalition is riddled with
Islamic State: ‘US failure to look into Saudi role in 9/11 has helped Isis’ – by Patrick Cockburn: The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) has been aided by the continuing failure of the US Government to investigate the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attacks and its support of