Why Ayatollah Khamenei will not negotiate with Trump
Ayatollah Khamenei wants to leave a lasting legacy behind and submitting to the US cannot be part of it.
By: Saeid Golkar In a June 13 Washington Post article, former US ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad argued that the Trump administration’s approach towards Iran – withdrawing from the nuclear deal and imposing crippling sanctions – has a reasonable chance of bringing its leadership to the negotiating table. The logic behind this idea is […]
The deepening disconnect
Postponement of the 2+2 dialogue has come amid growing India-U.S. estrangement in South Asia.
By: Suhasini Haidar If there were any doubts about a ‘disconnect’ between New Delhi and Washington in the past few months, the U.S.’s decision to put off the first ‘2+2’ dialogue with India should put them to rest. The 2+2, as the enhanced engagement between the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defence is called, was […]
Where women are without fear
A new survey says India is the most dangerous country for women. It should be an occasion, not for defensiveness and denial, but for serious reflection and the joining of forces for women’s equality.
By: Zakia Soman A recent survey by Thomson Reuters Foundation found that India is the most dangerous country for women. In this poll, India ranks below Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia and Saudi Arabia on the six issues surveyed. These were healthcare, access to economic resources and discrimination, customary practices, sexual violence, non-sexual violence and human trafficking. […]
Brainwaves
BY: Naveed Qazi In one of the most fertile Nigerian regions called Benue, there lies a village called Aya Mbalom. Here, the Christian farmers and Muslim herdsmen have lived in harmony for decades. But a worrisome, wanton and unabated destruction has started in the region. As of now, the soil is degrading for various reasons […]
Listen to the voiceless
Accountability for human rights abuses and violations cannot be indefinitely suspended while we wait for a political solution to Kashmir
BY: Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein Most conversations about Kashmir focus on the tensions between India and Pakistan and the seemingly intransigent dispute between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. What is often neglected — and was highlighted by the first-ever UN human rights report on Kashmir — is the serious nature of human rights concerns on both […]
Choreography of a break-up
It was scripted into coming together of BJP with PDP. In run-up to 2019, polarised J&K will add fuel to BJP fire.
BY: Kapil Sibal The BJP-PDP alliance was untenable at birth. Their ideological predilections were as far apart as the North Pole from the South Pole. When stitching the alliance, Narendra Modi was more than willing to cohabit with dynastic politics, a charge he made against the father-daughter duo of the late Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and […]
Is the acquittal of Ali Salman a breakthrough in Bahrain?
The recent acquittal of a Shia opposition leader could be an indication that Bahrain might be heading towards reform.
BY: Bill Law Hope is a commodity in short supply but there are signs that in the Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain, hope for an end to political stalemate between the country’s Shia Muslim majority population and its Sunni ruling family may not be misplaced. The history of Bahrain since independence has been one of […]
To write The right With Rights
By: Sankarshan Thakur Sometimes you look out the window and you do not wish to see what you see. For a while now, that has been predominantly the case, you do not wish to see what’s happening out the window because it is such a rabid upturning of right things. Imagine men being killed for […]
The menace of Drug Abuse!
By: Dr Sohail Nasti Sri Lanka, the picturesque tear-drop shaped island in the Indian ocean, like several areas in the world which have been hit by conflict, struggles with emerging drug abuse. Drugs, especially heroin is said to have been brought to the island during the opening of Sri Lanka’s economy in the late seventies, […]
Why Turkey is undergoing snap elections?
By: Shahjhan Mustafa Turkey held presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June, 2018 constitutional amendments gave the President absolute powers. These include the power to issue decrees with the force of law, appoint the cabinet and vice-presidents as well as senior judges. Election 2018 has potential to cross the psychological barricade and opposition led by Social […]
