Indian Muslim Women suffering because of abuse of Islamic Law

Rina Chandran | Lucknow, India - Shabana was 18 years old when she was married to a man 15 years her senior, in the northern...

Killing people in the name of meat-politics in India?

Aftab Alam | Indolent Indian cows sitting or eating on the busiest roads of the country’s cities are common sights for anyone who has ever...

Why isn’t the World talking about Kashmir?

Michael Kugelman | Today, the trend lines for Jammu & Kashmir are quite troubling, to say the least. Nearly a year after Indian security forces...

US-Russia Lethal Arms Race: Beginning of a New Cold War?

Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The trends in the global politics manifest that Great Powers are investing immensely in advancing their military arsenals. They are...

Judiciary of Pakistan: preserving democracy or saluting gangsters?

Ikram Sehgal | Governor Amir Muhammad Khan Kalabagh’s logic behind not closing down the red light area “Hiramandi” is very revealing, “If you ban them...

Soft Power: Japan has turned its culture into a powerful political tool

Much has been made of Japan’s recent turn away from pacifism and growing military muscle, but Tokyo is also extending its global reach in...

The “peaceful” Buddhists take up arms against Muslims

Michael Jerryson | The recent violence in southern Thailand began on 4 January 2004, when Malay Muslim insurgents invaded a Thai Army depot in the...

How RAW uses ‘Terrorism’ as a tool to pose threat to Pakistan’s viability?

Zeeshan Shahid Khan | Military and political strategists throughout history, such as Chanakya and Machiavelli, have philosophized how tactics of terrorism and cruelty may be...

U.S will confront Russia about its role in Afghanistan

M. K. Bhadrakumar | The seething US-Russia rivalry in Afghanistan took a sharp turn with the explosive threat held out by the visiting US Defense...

Saudi ultra-conservatives take anti-reform stand on women’s sports

James M. Dorsey | Saudi Arabia’s, ultra conservative, Shura or Advisory Council, in a sign that the kingdom is polarized over Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s...

China closes US’ exit door from Iran nuclear deal

M. K Bhadrakumar | The signing of the first commercial contract between China and Iran to redesign Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor is a landmark event in...

Afghanistan: A Graveyard of Empires or an Afghan Cemetery

By Adnan Qaiser | Alexander Cockburn had rightly identified Afghanistan as “nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets...
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