Hurdles to Afghan Peace: Pak still has foremost role to play
Since the US-Taliban peace deal many fearsome incidents took place on Afghan soil. Oath-taking of two presidents in one state, the deadlock over the...
How the Saudi-led coalition forces devastated Yemen? 5 years of misery
Impoverished Yemen is mired in a devastating conflict between Iran-backed rebels and government forces that intensified after Saudi Arabia led a military intervention five...
Coronavirus removes concept of religious superiority
Civilizationalist leaders, who seek religious legitimacy, cater to a religious support base or initially discarded scientific advice for expedient political reasons. They may have...
Iran appeals IMF for emergency loan request to combat coronavirus
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran appealed to the International Monetary Fund Wednesday to approve a $5 billion emergency loan request to combat its novel...
Has Iran won the fight against Covid-19? As it is set to help Turkey
In a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Tuesday, Zarif expressed sympathy with the Turkish government and people over the outbreak...
Crisis over? Iran decides to resume economic activities
Iran said Sunday it will allow "low-risk" economic activities to resume from April 11 as its daily coronavirus infection rates slowed for a fifth...
US-Iran rift: Trump warns Iran of ‘heavy price’ in case of attack on US...
President Donald Trump warned Iran on Wednesday of a "heavy price" if it or its allies in Iraq attack US troops stationed there. "We don't...
US is responsible for disaster in the middle east: Claims Iran
Iran warned the US Wednesday that it was leading the Middle East to disaster in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic after it deployed...
COVID-19 will alter the geopolitics in the region
In its wake, COVID-19 crippled economies made states dysfunctional, disintegrated social bonds by isolation, social distancing overwhelmed health and safety infrastructure the world over....
Bypassing US sanctions: Europe sends medical goods to Iran
European nations have delivered medical goods to Iran in the first transaction under the Instex mechanism set up to bypass American sanctions on Tehran,...
COVID-19 Crisis is golden opportunity to unite Muslim World
Threat Perception: Between Lockdown or No Lockdown: Since World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency, 199 states around the globe including the...
Why Middle East fails to achieve sustainable peace?
The Middle East has remained one of the most volatile and unstable places on the world stage. Throughout the history it has been entangled...
US puts NEW sanctions on Iran, despite calls for relief
The US Treasury Department has slapped fresh sanctions on Iran, accusing several Iranian firms of aiding terrorism. Meanwhile, Tehran and the UN have called...
Can Covid-19 bring US and Iran closer?
The ongoing Covid-19 has exposed not only public health facilities in many countries, but also revealed complex manifestations of international politics. For the last three...
Iran is dying under US sanctions and China virus
Saadi Shirazi, one of the prominent Iranian poets of the medieval period, once wrote, “Extending a hand in the hour of need is the...
Saudi Arabia struggles to escape Yemen quagmire
Five years after launching its much-criticised military intervention in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is stuck in a costly quagmire with no exit in sight while...
We will not accept help from ‘foreign forces’: declared Iran
A senior Iranian official Tuesday ruled out help from "foreign forces" to deal with the coronavirus epidemic after an offer from a France-based medical...
Indo-Russia Strategic Triangle: plan to open major trade route via Iran
Opening a long-pending multi-modal transportation corridor via Iran will be a big boost for bilateral trade between Russia and India, but it’s not just...
PM Imran Khan calls for lifting of Iran sanctions
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan called Friday for the lifting of "unjust" US-led sanctions on neighbouring Iran, so Tehran can better deal with the...
US-Iran Head to Head: UAE-based firms targeted for shipping Iranian oil
The United States on Thursday slapped sanctions on five companies based in the United Arab Emirates for allegedly shipping oil from Iran in defiance...
Hardliners in Iran demonize WHO & Tehran govt as ‘Infidels’ for closure of shrines
People in Iran vehemently protested the shutdown of two major Holy shrines, Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad and Fatima Masumeh Shrine in Qom after...
Is US exaggerating Coronavirus to contain Chinese growth?
An underlying theme behind the Western political and media focus on the coronavirus, is to damage and undermine China's international standing, the country where...
Iran urges people to stay home as virus claims 113 more lives
Iran on Sunday urged its citizens to stick to guidelines and stay at home to stop the new coronavirus spreading, as it announced another...
Pakistan’s civil military leadership formulates policy against Coronavirus
Pakistan will close its border with Iran and Afghanistan in a bid to control the spread of the coronavirus, the interior ministry said Friday. The...
Iran reaches Washington for loan to combat virus
Iran said Thursday it has reached Washington for its first loan in decades to combat a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed 429 lives and...
Scholar of Iran calling coronavirus ‘divine punishment’ got infected himself
An Islamic scholar in Iran who said coronavirus is the punishment of Allah contracted the epidemic himself. Hadi Al-Modarresi, before contracting the disease had...
4000 visitors are quarantined at Taftan border
The number of pilgrims kept in quarantine near the Taftan border crossing with Iran has reached 4,000. The pilgrims, returning from Iran, are being...
Upcoming US President: Policy Towards the Gulf Will Change Regardless
The fight in this week’s Democratic primaries may have been about who confronts Donald J. Trump in November’s US presidential election, Bernie Sanders or...
Deadliest attack on US, UK army in Iraq: many causalities
Two American soldiers and a British soldier were killed Wednesday, a US official said, in the deadliest rocket attack in years on an Iraqi...
Women’s March Fiasco: Diversity is Virtue not Vice!
As a Pakistani ex-pat living in a pluralistic and diverse country like Canada, I am watching the current debate on Women’s Rights in Pakistan...