Appeasing extremists weakens Pakistan’s global standing
Imran Khan fuelled the fires of bigotry by falsely accusing the PML-N government of catering to a Western agenda and campaigned in favour of anti-Ahmadi laws
By: Meriam Sabih Naya Pakistan is treading further away from Quaid’s Pakistan and the economy is suffering. On September 7, Prime Minister Imran Khan cowed to pressure from far-right groups and asked Dr. Atif Mian, professor at Princeton University, to step down as an advisor from its Economic Advisory Council (EAC). The highly qualified professor, […]
Outcomes versus promises
By: M.K. Narayanan Russian President Vladimir Putin’s whirlwind visit to Delhi earlier this month, lasting less than 24 hours, came just a month after the visits, in September, of U.S. Secretary of State Mike R. Pompeo and Defence Secretary James N. Mattis to participate in the 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue with their Indian counterparts, SushmaSwaraj and […]
Will China abandon the Palestinians?
China appears to be operating with the mistaken assumption that it can be pro-Palestine and pro-Israel at once.
By: Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo China’s Vice President Wang Qishan arrived in Israel on Monday for a four-day visit to head the fourth China-Israel Innovation Committee. He is the highest-ranking Chinese official to visit Israel in nearly two decades. In April 2000, the former president of China, Jiang Zemin was the first Chinese leader […]
NRC exclusion of lakhs reflects BJP’s divisive game of numbers
Concerns over illegal immigration from Bangladesh should be addressed through better border security measures
By: Prasenjit Bose The exclusion of over 40 lakh applicants in the final draft of the National Register of Citizens in Assam has caused widespread anxiety with regard to their future. The Supreme Court has provided a 60-day window to those who have been excluded, starting from September 25, to file their claims and objections […]
Populism confronts reality
By: S.Akbar Zaidi It is two months since Imran Khan became Pakistan’s Prime Minister with the very partisan and public support and assistance from Pakistan’s military and its clandestine organisations, when his main opponent, Nawaz Sharif, and his daughter were put behind bars following a highly controversial and dubious legal judgment. Yet, Mr. Khan has […]
On fake investigations: From Kavanaugh to MBS
With the help of the Trump administration, the Saudi regime is trying to sell us a brand new fake investigation.
By: Hamid Dabashi In the age of “fake news” and “alternative facts” you, of course, have “fake investigations”, too – the sort that FBI did on Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual misconduct allegations and now the sort Donald Trump tells us Mohammed bin Salman is doing into allegations of his own suspected involvement in the brutal murder […]
China and the US
By: Dr A Q Khan The Chinese are our best friends while the Americans always try to find some fault with us. Most recently, they even blamed China for our debt problems rather than the incompetence of our leaders. This is what Thomas Friedman has to say about US/China relationships. He recently wrote an article […]
Autonomy curbed
India acts as though there are no limits to federal powers.
ALL federations make foreign affairs a central subject. But none render the states as dependent on the centre as India does. Chief ministers take its permission for travel abroad. As citizens, they do not need to, unless they plan to negotiate, whether for loans or investments. India refused to accept offers of help from the […]
Migrant and nation
Pakistan’s inability to govern its territory effectively is in large measure due to its burgeoning refugee population
By: Khaled Ahmed On Sunday, September 16, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that he would start “work immediately” on providing passports to the children of refugees born in Pakistan. He might soon have to eat his words because the opposition parties plus the army would have none of it. As many as 1.5 million children […]
Myanmar and the limits of pan-Islamism
The paradox of Muslim solidarity is that its global character is dependent on the West, conceptually and politically
By: Faisal Devji Since Myanmar’s latest bout of violence against the Rohingya began in 2012, there has been a slow uptick of outrage in the Muslim world. But it was only recently, once international observers described what was happening there as an ethnic cleansing, that Muslim concern became more vocal than protests in Europe or […]
