Financial Action Task Force (FATF) working group and plenary meetings will be held in Paris from 21 February-4 March 2022. During the plenary session, the watchdog will review the progress made by the countries on its grey and blacklists and accordingly update them.
The Ukraine crisis could force Middle Eastern countries like the UAE to rethink their newly found positions in a twist of irony. The crisis is likely to demonstrate that they can only hedge so much to compensate for a perceived lessening of the United States’ commitment to their security.
Although the Russia-Ukraine war is devastating affairs for humanity and human security, the current war in Ukraine can avail the US in fortifying NATO, dividing the world into ideological lines, cut-off Europe from Russia, and incrementing awareness in Europe.
Headquartered in Vienna, OCSE is fully capable of dealing with security-related issues of all 57 members in Europe. The Europeans need a robust Concert of Europe to get rid of obsolete yet coercive NATO.
Civilians are being recruited by the Ukrainian government to undertake street fighting while the West is arming them with Javelin's shoulder-held anti-tank weapons. The method to this madness is escalators and graduated in the application.
The saffronized Indian Judicial system failed to provide justice to the Muslims and convicted criminals of Gujarat riots who are freely moving in India. It is time that the international community focuses and pressurizes India into equally treating minorities and protecting their basic rights.
Russians are drilling Ukraine into segments, the western block is busy drafting rafts of sanctions, and rivals are weaving strategies to somehow remain neutral in a stark spread towards a modern Cold War - deny it as much as you want, but it is Cold War 2.0!
Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC - initially known as the Islamic Conference) was another such Trojan horse created by one Sher Ali Patodi, Yahya Khan’s information minister. Sher Ali was virally anti- Bhutto, hence the strongest opposition against OIC came from Bhutto,
Islamabad being placed in the grey list has much to do with how international lenders, as well as major powers, desired long for an agenda that is beyond the scope and limits of FATF. Islamabad will have to engage pro-actively with the global community to get off the grey list.
The Western media is giving ample amount of coverage to Ukrainian civilians who are resisting Russian aggression and calling them ‘the defenders of motherland and heroes’. Will it ever call innocent Palestinians, who defend their country with merely the stones?
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, large nuclear arsenals were inherited by Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Ukraine alone became heir to the world's third-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. In 1994, these former soviet republics gave up their nuclear arsenals.
Traditionally, gender assignment at birth used to be done into either masculine or feminine based on the appearance of external genital organs. This classification can be deceptive at times. Sometimes the external appearance does not match with the internal genetic makeup.
