Fragile Big Power Relationships Add To Middle Eastern Uncertainty

Fraught with multiple powder kegs that could blow up at any moment, Turkish-Russian relations constitute a study in the management of a new world...

Second Wave Of Pandemic Puts Middle East At Crossroads  

The Middle East is at a crossroads. The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout confronts regional leaders with a stark choice: dial down tensions...

Indus Water Treaty

RAJA FURQAN AHMED The Indus Water Treaty is a water-distribution treaty between Pakistan and India which was agreed in 19th September 1960. This Treaty is considered...

Meeting Maulana

It was late July 2011, and I was on my way to the most notorious madrassa in the world, Dar -I Uloom Haqqania, where...

UAE Targets Turkey And Qatar In The Mediterranean

Europe is progressively being sucked into the Middle East and North Africa’s myriad conflicts. As if wars on its doorstep in Libya and Syria...

China’s Water Hegemony

As a famous saying goes, " He who controls water, he controls all." Widely known as the " Water Tower" of Asia, the Tibetan Plateau...

Syria Lures But Will China Bite?

China looms large as a potentially key player alongside Russia and Iran in President Bashas al-Assad’s post-war Syria. With Russia and Iran lacking the...

The Freedom of Tweet

It was Christmas holidays back in America in late December 2007; I was standing in the kitchen with my aunt in their Seattle home...

Iranian Naval Activity Shines Light On Caspian Sea Rivalries

Iranian naval activity in the Gulf and Turkish maritime expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean have hogged the limelight, but Russian and Gulf policymakers are...

Now Is The Time

The Sugar Commission’s report has been released and fingers have been pointed. Although only nine sugar mills have been audited, it unveiled a vast...