The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has been called by some analysts a “relic of the cold war” days. It was theoretically conceived at Bandung in 1955 and formally launched at Belgrade in ...
Democracy can take various forms and shades. In terms of form, it can be presidential or parliamentary. I remember when Musharraf toppled the Nawaz Sharif-led democratic dispensation in1999, he ...
Egypt claims to be the oldest sovereign state in the world, going back to 3100 BC. Now that is debatable, as Egypt has also been ruled by foreign powers, including, more recently, by the French and ...
Burma (now Myanmar) has a history of persecuting its minorities, Muslims in particular. The Muslims constitute 4 percent of its 60 million population. When I was posted at Yangon in the 1990s, local ...
The new French President, François Hollande, is a socialist and a practicing one. He has recently travelled to Brussels by train. He and his Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault are encouraging ...
The Pak-US relations have gone through cycles of warm engagement to cold estrangement. Interestingly, these relations were usually warm during military dictatorships in Pakistan, even though the US ...
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has ordered placing Pakistan Telecommunication Authority head Mohammad Yasin on the exit control. PAC Chairman explained this as a measure to stop him from fleeing ...
Egypt lies at the heart of the Arab world and is widely acknowledged as trendsetter in that region. With the highest population amongst Arab League nations, a large professional army and civilisation ...
The term Arab Spring, coined by the Western media to define various uprisings that have jolted the Arab world, is no longer popular. Mayhem and destruction seen by Syria, Libya and Yemen have taken ...
Pakistan has a laidback policy for the Middle East, a region of vital importance to us. This region has three holiest mosques in Makkah, Madinah and Jerusalem, apart from numerous other places of ...
Sunday, 26 May, 2013
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