Central Asian members of the organization, a brainchild of the now embattled former president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, joined Turkey at its recent summit in November in Istanbul in sending subtle and less subtle signals to both Russia and China as well as Iran.
Joint cooperation on these regional connectivity initiatives isn’t the only role that Russia can play in implementing Pakistan’s NSP though since there are several other promising opportunities as well. The document’s focus is on ensuring energy security through traditional and renewable means.
The post-US- Middle East stage is already set, and Iran is likely to triumph over Saudi Arabia. In case of a significant US disengagement from the region following scenarios can occur, first is a continuation of prolonged proxy wars with both Iran and Saudi Arabia vying for dominance.
New Delhi skillfully handled the balancing act between three major blocs in West Asia, the Arab Gulf, Iran and Israel. Its relations with Turkey, however, are not currently the best. The economy of India and the Gulf countries has increasingly inter-wined in the recent past.
The president of Kazakhstan has claimed that the recent violent demonstrations that have shaken the country were an "attempted coup d'état" by "armed fighters", adding that his forces would "never" fire on peaceful protesters. China reportedly offered to send law enforcement.
Omicron fuels old covid conspiracy theories, since 2019, when covid-19 was first detected in the Wuhan city of China, many conspiracy theories came out regarding this deadly virus. Some people believed that Covid-19 was a pre-planned variant
On 29 January 1942 General Georgy Zhukov, the Soviets' top commander, complained that he had so far lost 276,000 troops in the counteroffensive, and received a mere 100,000 reinforcements. In his memoirs, Zhukov unceremoniously labeled the Russian counteroffensive a “failure”.
It is expected that there will be further increases in Pakistan’s textile export quantity starting from February 2022, as many projects are being funded through the Temporary Economic Refinance Facility (TERF) and Long Term Financing Facility (LTFF) are to bear results.
The nefarious attempt to link Muslims and Sikhs is now harming India more than any other in the present scenario. The first question is that we measure the spot from saying Pakistan border 10 miles away that the blockade; rather than the actual distance of one mile from the protesters.
According to Dr. James M Dorsey, an award-winning journalist, Saudi Arabia, like Qatar, is learning the perils of seeking soft power through sports or religion without confronting skeletons in its closet after winning the right to host this year's FIFA World Cup.
We need to understand what happened in Ukraine to make sense of what is going on in the area. The Russian strategic goal behind its large deployment on Ukraine's borders was to overthrow Kyiv's government and seize the country.
One of the major flaws pinned in the “Murree crisis” is the mismanagement of the local authorities who, knowing the fact very well that the hill station does not have the capacity to handle such enormous traffic flow, still allowed vehicles to drive to the top.
