All stakeholders need to make collective efforts
It is welcome to note that despite adverse weather condition due to extreme cold across the country, the polio campaign is going on in parts of the country. Yes, the new year’s first polio campaign is currently in full swing in Khyber Pak...
(On the occasion of martyrdom of General Soleimani)
The Islamic Republic of Iran has conflicts and disputes with the United States of America and other imperialist governments over the world. The question is; what are the reasons behind these disputes? The conflict is not about some political issues....
No respite for Rohingya Muslims
For years, the Rohingya Muslims are facing atrocities in one way or the other. First they were subjected to genocide in Rakhine state of Myanmar where they are considered to be illegal immigrants and now they are languishing in camps in Bangladesh an...
Geneva Resilient Pakistan Conference: a thumping success
The US dollar 10bn aid pledges made by the participants of Geneva moot for Pakistan to help the latter in the post-floods situation is a welcome augury. However, one thing must be kept in mind that these are only pledges and the real difference would...
Judicial snags: much more needs to be done
There is no denying that our legal system is marred by undue delays and snags. Cases run for years and years with no sight of decisions. Sometime the decisions are delivered when the accused are no more. However, off late our legal gurus have also st...
Gaza must not be forgotten amid Israel’s latest controversies
In the tumult of the recent Israeli general election and the farcical process of forming a new government, the focus was chiefly on how it would affect Israeli democracy and relations with the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, while t...
Iraq’s moment in the football sun
For the first time since 1979, Iraq is hosting a major global event - the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup. To say Iraq has been through devastation in recent years would be an understatement. The Middle Eastern nation, proudly crowned as the cradle of civilisa...
Ukraine and Saudi Arabia: Broadening horizons of cooperation
One more year of Ukrainian-Saudi relations has come to an end. The past year’s high-speed, turbulent pace was dictated by a complex set of internal and external factors affecting the agendas of each country, which neither had ever experienced b...
Farha and the story of the Palestinian collaborator
On December 1, 2022, Netflix released the film Farha, Darin Sallam’s first full-length feature and Jordan’s entry into the Oscars. Like many diaspora Palestinians and our allies, I rushed to watch it, and I loved it. The film is based on...
‘He led by example, and left a living legacy’
Born in 1920, orphaned at 2, brought up by a remarkable young widowed mother who kept her late husband’s business running, mentored by his older brother (Abdul Hameed), young Mohammed Said, after his initial schooling, studied and trained in Un...
