(Part 1)  By  Asif Haroon Raja Harking back into the history of Yemen which stretches back to 3000 years, it will be worthwhile to know certain essential details about the country. It lies at the tip of Arabian Peninsula and it borders Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to the north and Oman to the east. Yemen is strategically important because it sits on the Bab al-Mandab strait, a narrow waterway 40 km wide li ...

Rida Zaheer Dhaka (ZM): Many cricket experts and local spectators declared favourite Pakistani Cricket team in the forthcoming Cricket Series.  Pakistan Team will reach in Dhaka on 13 April 2015. The schedule for Pakistan's tour of Bangladesh has been confirmed with the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur set to host the limited-overs leg, starting with the first ODI on April 17. The three-match ODI ser ...

  سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی ’فاشزم سیاست ‘ جمہوری سیاست کا جتنا بڑا لبادہ اُوڑھ لے اپنے چہرے بشرے پر مختلف جمہوری رنگوں کی لکیریں بھی لگاتی پھرے اُس کا یہ طرزِ عمل اُسے کبھی جمہوریت سے تعبیر نہیں کرسکتا جمہوریت کی اصل کو سمجھنا ہے تو پھر آئیے جمہوریت کے بانی ارسطو کی اِس بات کو سمجھنے کی کوشش کرتتے ہیں کہ اُس نے جمہوری حکمرانوں کے بارے میں کیا کہا ارسطو کہتا ہے کہ’ انسان پر لازم ہے کہ وہ اِس کوشش میں مسلسل مصروف ر ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The world is in turmoil and events are moving towards confrontation between bigger powers. Owing to its evil acts, the Evil Empire wanting to convert the world into a global village has made the world insecure and is now seen as the biggest human threat the world has ever known. The so-called invincible US military and NATO have been roundly defeated by the ill-clad and ill-equipped Afgh ...

RIYADH (ZM):  Saudi Arabian government requested Pakistan for military assistance inan on-going conflict with Yemen.  Pakistani high level assured Saudi rulers that Islamabad will provide all possible assistance in this crisis. The delegation has returned home and is expected to brief Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while a decision to send troops will be made by the country’s leadership as well. Defence Minist ...

By Zaheerul Hassan (ZM) — According to Saudi ambassador Adel al-Jubeir to the United States disclosed that his country has started airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, who drove out the U.S.-backed Yemeni president. He said the operations began at 7 p.m. Eastern time. He further states, widely believed to be backed by Iran, "have always chosen the path of violence." He refused to admit the U.S.  I ...

 By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai “All of us remain concerned that the issue of Jammu and Kashmir should be solved through peaceful negotiations and should be willing to lend all the strength we have to the resolution of this matter.” President Nelson Mandela at the NAM Summit – September 2, 1998 In matters of international conflict resolution, that can only imply the involvement of a third party mediator or facilita ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While echoing Hobbes and Machiavelli, Morgenthau opines that in international politics, countries act upon various immoral activities like deceit, fraud, falsehood and so on. In one way or the other, they also follow these tactics to fulfill their selfish aims. But, in the modern era of electronic and social media including open diplomacy, it is difficult for the sovereign states to contin ...