by Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal The history of the Gulf is marked by immense wealth, strategic rivalry and recurring conflict. Yet wars in this vital region have never remained confined to its shores. Whenever conflict threatens oil production or the security of shipping routes, its consequences spread across the world. Prices […]
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by Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal In the autumn of 2005, the earth rose in wrath against the ancient hills of Kashmir. On the eighth day of October, a violent convulsion of 7.6 magnitude tore through the region, its epicentre lying a mere 19 kms northeast of Muzaffarabad. The tremor was felt […]
by Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal The history of Iranian civilisation unfolds as one of the grandest tapestries in the story of mankind, spanning more than two thousand five hundred years of recorded glory and endurance. From the sunlit heights of the Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BCE, […]