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Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’

UAE leads Gulf nuclear-power plans

By A Khokar • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The United Arab Emirates’ plan to become the first Arab country to operate a nuclear power plant is a step closer to fruition with the announcement in December 2009 that it had selected a Korean consortium to build four nuclear-power reactors. Though other Gulf States have in recent years declared their intention to explore nuclear [...]



Talking Past is Fun, Taliban are Current

By Mohsin Sehgal • Nov 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It’s true that Pakistani ISI and American CIA with the help of other Western powers and Middle East powers helped created Mujahideens of 80s, in which Pakistan was the front line state, and this ragtag force equipped with state-of-the-art weapons defeated USSR, which resulted in it’s historic breakup.
That was then surely in the interest of [...]



Kaalay Qaul - Hassan Nisaar Say Ma’azrat Kay Saath

By Kaptain Mirza • Oct 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Abba – zeest k warq per chann’d ek adhoori satrein, kuch mitti huwi, kuch mad’hamm, kuch bhoolai gaeein, kuch aansoo’oan say nehlaai gaeein, kuch dard bhari per ziaada tehleel kardi gaeein
Iman – woh Gosha, woh tijaarat jo kisi mehnat ya sanyaas k baad na mila, buss kissi gunahgaar k do gumnaam say aansoo is samander [...]



ROSS, OBAMA & PALESTINE

By Prof. Michael Brenner • Jun 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Dennis Ross’ redeployment from the State Department to a more prominent position at the NSC in the White House raises two sets of interrelated questions.  Why, and with what consequences?   Competing answers to the former include the following.  (1) Ross was relieved of his Iran policy coordinator brief so as to remove a possible obstacle [...]



Be an Apologist - Without Apology

By A Khokar • Jun 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Obama returns to the Oval Office in Washington where conservatives are deriding his trip abroad as an “apology tour.” In keeping with their general philosophy of giving no quarter to President Barracks Obama, conservatives spent much of last week lambasting Obama’s visit to the Middle East as an “apology tour.”
It was widely thought that Obama [...]



Obama’s Speech is Good But World Need Action

By Shayan Khan • Jun 7th, 2009 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics, Politics (Urdu), Worth A Second Look

Barack Obama, Yes you can, but you cannot if you merely keep giving lip service to the people of the world. Your glossy speeches heavily sprinkled with lofty words, noble ambitions and promising future are very welcome, but we have over the years grown very apprehensive and wary of such ornamental rhetoric, and now want [...]



Indian Army Preparing for Coup in India

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma, now Indian army is also flapping it’s wings to have a coup and “discipline” the Indian people. Indian army’s inroads in the political arena through BJP and some of the hawks in Congress are all too visible. Their involvment in the riots and terrorists activities, manipulation of politicos and technocrats, [...]



Democracy & Former Islamic Colonies in Asia

By Prof. Michael Brenner • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The common experience of British dependencies in Asia was direct, custodial rule over a prolonged period. I believe that this is the principal reason why constitutional democracy has fared better there than in the Arab Middle East.
That experience was shared by the two largely Islamic states that had formed part of colonial India: Pakistan [...]



Wishing a Better Future for Middle East

By A Khokar • Dec 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

Nectar and fragrant delights are the divinely blessings, ordained by Almighty God to the bees to receive a feast of regale and delicacy from the flowers. Bees gets this as a pleasant reward while serving the divinely mechanism of nature; of transferring the pollen of flowers to the stigma. Bees may not be aware of [...]



Afghanistan and India should abstain from provoking

By Dr RazaHaider • Jun 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

In my opinion this is a clear war tactics to engage the target on multiple ends so to dismantle the thoughts in linear and defending pattern.