Sohail Anjum Malik Britain’s prime minister Herbert Asquith, hundred years ago stood before the House of Commons to make his government’s case for hostilities against Germany – two days after war had been declared. Several of the debates that raged in the run-up to that horrific conflict remain unresolved a century later, and one particular cause for wonderment...

As’ad Abdul Rahman     The ‘Lone Wolves’ is a name coined by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to describe the most deadly independent cells of Al Qaida that are now active without any connection to the central command. They decide on their own targets and rely completely on their own resources. The best example was the two brothers from Chechnya who where...

Adnan Randhawa The writer is a lawyer and founder of Aam Aadmi Party Pakistan. In a perfect real life reenactment of the last scene of Crash, a beautiful Academy Award winning movie, in which a white cop Hansen, wrongly fearing for his own life, shoots to kill a black youngster Peter on a street, Ferguson, a locality in Missouri State of the US, was put on fire a few days...

Haidar Eid   “There is no such thing as a Palestinian.” – Golda Meir “The old will die and the young will forget.”  – David Ben-Gurion Israelis have many things to say about Palestinians, none of them humanising or related to reality. They continue to create their false narrative making Orwellian words their allies. From 1948 to...

Ranj Alaaldin   Since US airstrikes began on Islamic State targets in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, a number of Western countries have finally decided to empower and arm Iraq’s Kurds in the ever-expanding battle against the radical group. The West has finally made the right decision, as the Islamic State group can only be confronted and defeated with the...

Mahir Ali   There was no doubt a considerable degree of schadenfreude in social media activity from official sources in nations such as Egypt and Iran in reaction to the events of recent weeks in Ferguson, Missouri. The United States, after all, is seldom backward in offering condescending advice in relation to how other governments deal with dissidence (inevitably...

(Areeba Rashid)   Starting from educational system in Pakistan, commenting on it might seem to be good and nothing new to everyone but concluding this article might bring a nation-wide condemnation on this but despite of all the resistance, hopefully this article would prove as one step forward towards broadening of people’s minds and thoughts. Education! Instead...

Osama Al Sharif For the first time since the Syrian crisis broke out in March 2011 there are indications that policies toward the Damascus regime are about to change drastically. But it is not because President Bashar Assad has altered his position from the uprising against him or from the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) in exile. And it is not because Assad’s forces...

Nadeem M. Qureshi As Israel continues to rain terror, death and destruction on innocent civilians the world needs to act. The traditional approach encouraging the two parties to ‘negotiate’ has not worked. And those who thought it would, were either deceiving themselves, or the world. Negotiation is possible if the two parties are on equal footing. When the power imbalance...