JAMES M. DORSEY A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack of confidence in a Middle Eastern regime is starkest in Iran, although crisis-wracked Lebanon, Egypt, or Syria may compete. Surveyed in late December by the Netherlands-based Gamaan Institute, an overwhelming majority of the 158,000 respondents in […]
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JAMES M. DORSEY Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has put Israel’s closest allies and some of his key partners on the spot. So has a generation of Palestinian youth that has nothing to lose and no longer sees fruitless engagement with and acquiescence of the Jewish state as a means of […]
JAMES M. DORSEY What do Moroccan arms sales to Ukraine, a transnational Russian Iranian transit corridor, and US assistance in developing a Saudi national strategy have in common? Together with this week’s Russian-Iranian financial messaging agreement and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s December visit to Saudi Arabia, they are smaller and […]
The Peshawar suicide attack this week which resulted in the death of 96 plus people and injuring more than 250 seriously is the second most horrifying terror attack in the country after the December 2014 APS school attack in which the Taliban terrorists had massacred 150 people including 134 students […]
JAMES M. DORSEY When Mohammed al-Jadaan told a gathering of the global political and business elite that Saudi Arabia would, in the future, attach conditions to its foreign aid, the finance minister was announcing the expansion of existing conditionality rather than a wholly new approach. Coined ‘Saudi First,’ the new […]
The dropping of foreign reserve from 11 billion dollars to $3.68 billion and the rupee losing ten percent of its value vis a vis the US dollar in this week-breaking the two decades record indicates something terrible is rotting and happening in the state of Pakistan. The rupee is continuously […]
JAMES M. DORSEY Moderate Muslims and militant Hindu nationalists are strange bedfellows at the best of times, particularly when they come together to reshape Hindu-Muslim relations in troubled India. Yet, that is what Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama and India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) seek to achieve. Nahdlatul Ulama, arguably the world’s […]
Saudi Arabia has once again decided to bailout Pakistan from defaulting and hitting a very mega embarrassing international crises. The SaudiCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has directed his authorities to consider increasing the cash deposit with the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) as well as investment in the country. The […]
S M Rizwan Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif is visiting the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from January 12 to 13 at the invitation of the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. This will be the third visit of Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif to […]
