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How Israel and Pakistan Can Avoid a Nuclear Showdown
0 comments | by By Shimon Arad
The advancement of Pakistan’s nuclear-missile capabilities and Israel’s growing military ties with India are increasing their respective military relevance for each other. In the absence of formal diplomatic rel
Read Full ArticleRussia-Pakistan Military Relations Are on the Path to a Strategic Partnership
0 comments | by By Andrew Korybko
The statements made by the Russian and Pakistani Defense Ministers after their interaction at this year’s Moscow Conference on International Security show that the military relations between the two Great Powers are on the right track and moving them closer to clinching a long-awaited strategic partnership. Russia and Pakista
Read Full Article14 out of world’s 20 most polluted cities are in India: WHO
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Delhi and Varanasi are among the 14 Indian cities that figured in a list of 20 most polluted cities in the world in terms of PM2.5 levels in 2016, data released by the WHO showed.
Read Full ArticleSay The Word’: What The Rohingya Struggle Is Really About
0 comments | by Dr Ramzy Baroud
Pope Francis lost a historical opportunity to truly set his legacy apart from previous Popes. Alas, for him, too, political expediency trumped all else. In his visit to Burma (Myanmar) on November 27, he refrained from u
Read Full ArticleContinuity of Agenda: US Encirclement of China Continues Under Trump
0 comments | by Ulson Gunnar
The United States has pursued a decades-long policy of encircling, containing and if possible, undermining China as part of a larger strategy of achieving and maintaining what US policy papers call “primacy” over Asia. US policy has led to deeply-rooted networks operating within China’s borders and along China’s geopolitical peripheries to divide and des
Read Full ArticleZionism and Islamophobia Convergence of Interests
0 comments | by Jamshed Abbas
Back in 2008, a Zionist Jew named Barre Seid living in the US issued a check for just under $17 million. The purpose was to fund the distribution of 28 million copies of a hate-filled documentary whose premise was that Islam is equivalent to Nazism and is the greatest threat the West faces. The CDs were distributed by the Clarion Fund, which has been linked to the Israeli group Aish HaTorah.
Read Full ArticleLimits of American power The Trump administration has got into the dangerous habit
0 comments | by Javid Husain
The Trump administration has got into the dangerous habit of issuing unilateral demands and ultimatums to governments around the world that do not see eye to eye with it on different issues. Unilateral demands on Pakistan relating to the Afghanistan situation are an example of this tendency. During the Cold War, the US, because of the global competition waged by the Soviet Union and its need fo
Read Full ArticleChina Builds Military Base in Afghanistan By Peter Korzun
0 comments | by By Peter Korzun
The Afghan province of Badakhshan borders China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It used to be part of an artery between the East and West known as the ancient Silk Road. Today, that road is
Read Full ArticleTrying times - PAKISTAN is living through trying times
0 comments | by Munir Akram
PAKISTAN is living through trying times. It confronts simultaneous threats from India and the US. The Trump administration has decided to coerce Pakistan’s compliance with its demands to ‘eliminate’ the alleged Afghan Taliban safe havens in Pakistan. Puffed up by the US endorsement of its regional ambitions, revelling in the Pakistan-US tensions, and unable to suppress the lat
Read Full ArticleIntensified Bombing for Victory in Afghanistan by Brian Cloughley
4 comments | by Brian Cloughley
The TV series, The Vietnam War, is absolutely riveting. The ten discs in the DVD set provide over 17 hours of viewing, and there is hardly a moment wasted. It is evenhanded to the most admir
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