By Dr Hassan Farooq Mashwani All over the world there are certain regions and states that are particularly famous for various natural, industrial, technological and educational peculiarities. These attributes render superior position against others for they earn greater fame, name, revenues, jobs and quality of life for a nation. Likewise, […]
Opinion
JAMES M. DORSEY Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s far-right, Jewish nationalist, ultra-conservative coalition government threatens to put the Jewish state on a collision course with Diaspora Jewry and could weaken or undermine a pillar of Israeli national security: unquestioned US support. The looming crisis with two of Israel’s crucial constituencies, the […]
BY JAMES M. DORSEY Qatar and Saudi Arabia will be this decade’s focal points of Asian sports. By 2030, Egypt and Turkey could become part of the global sports-hosting mix. That doesn’t mean that Arab and Berber North Africa will be sidelined. On the contrary, barely two months after emerging […]
By : Ayesha Azmat Pakistan’s relationship with the Afghan Taliban is in serious jeopardy. Since seizing power, the Taliban have defied Pakistan. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an anti-Pakistan insurgent group that has killed thousands of Pakistanis and aims to establish a Shariah-compliant state in Pakistan, has been given sanctuary as […]
BY JAMES M. DORSEY Muslim religious soft power rivalry, a battle for the soul of Islam, just got hotter.The rivalry’s latest battlefield is not Mecca, Medina, Cairo, Tehran, or Istanbul. It’s Hindu nationalist Delhi. That is because, for the next year, India chairs the Group of 20 largest economies in […]
BY JAMES M. DORSEY The Biden administration excels in scoring its own goals, nowhere more so than in the Middle East. Missed in the hype of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia is that no part of the world lends itself more than the Middle East to […]
By M Haroon Abbas 100 years ago, Australian superstar Dame Nellie Melba sang ‘Home Sweet Home’ into a microphone & made history. The world’s 1st live public entertainment broadcast came from a Marconi studio in Chelmsford. Nellie’s voice was heard by radio enthusiasts around the World, given there was little […]
BY SIDRA SHAHID It is quite clear that the nature of warfare is changing rapidly. It is easy to predict that any future conflict will undoubtedly differ significantly from the previous one. The future wars will increasingly take place in non-physical realms like the cyber and psychological ones rather than […]
JAMES M. DORSEY Barely out of the starting blocks, the Qatar World Cup has already produced a fair share of upsets as well as politically and personally sensitive situations and incidents. Qatar’s 2:0 loss to Ecuador in the tournament’s opening match will have reinforced critics’ conviction that the Gulf state […]
