The Caliphate Movement, in the early part of the 20th century, was an unqualified disaster. It added to sectarian bigotry and divided the Muslim...
Tag - Middle East
نوٹ: ڈاکٹر حمزہ علوی نے تحریک خلافت پر ناقدانہ تحقیقی مقالہ Ironies of History: Contradictions of TheKhilafat Movement تاریخ کے المیے: تحریک خلافت کے تضادات کے...
شام کے شہر حلب میں مظالم نے اسرائیل کے شقی القلب یہودیوں کو بھی پیچھے چھوڑ دیا ھے ،، ھر ملک اپنی اپنی جنگ شام میں لے آیا ھے اور قیمت شامیوں کا خون ادا کر رھا...
I knew this trip would be an emotional roller coaster…and I had no idea. I have been in non-stop meetings with goverment ministers, high level...
Heavy propaganda accompanies the strategic battle in Aleppo between the Syrian Army and its allies (Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and other militia) and the...
Syrian News: “Abdulrahman was killed by a terrorist rocket on his way home back from school today (April 25).” -Eva Bartlett, In Gaza (republished at...
As US and NATO propaganda reaches another crescendo in Aleppo, it is important to remind ourselves of a few salient facts. First and foremost we need...
The Chinese authorities have claimed that since 2013, “hundreds” of Uyghurs have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State and other jihadist...
The Saudi government and its affiliates have spent millions of dollars on U.S. law, lobby and public relations firms to raise the country’s visibility...
Pakistan was greatly damaged when the military dictator Genreral Zia ul Haq streamlined the practice of using radical Deobandi and Wahhabi (Ahle Hadith)...
In part because my father was murdered by an Arab, I’ve made an effort to understand the impact of U.S. policy in the Mideast and particularly the...
جواد ظریف ایرانی وزیر خارجہ نے یو این کے جنرل سیکرٹری بان کی مون کے نام ایک خط لکھا ہے اور اس خط میں انھوں نے بان کی مون پہ واضح کیا ہے کہ ایرانی صدر حسن...
حبیبی ھنا صعوبات کثیرۃ: حبیبی عرب لیگ، صرف بیان بازی سے کچھ نہیں ہوگا۔ ایران میں جمہوریت ہے، وہاں حکمران اور اندازِ حکمرانی بھی بدلتے رہتے ہیں۔ صدر محمد خاتمی...
As the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis metastasize, we need a new approach for these unfolding human tragedies. To date, the Obama administration...
The shifting balance in the Middle East is causing understandable heartburn to many folks. A certain section of Pakistan’s intelligensia –...
اسرائیلی بمباری سے غزہ کی پٹی کی ایک تاریخی مسجد کی تباہی کا منظر آج جب یہ اداریہ لکھا جارہا ہے تو اسرائیلی بمباری اور زمینی حملے میں 1900 سے زیادہ فلسطینی...
Iran is backing Assad in Syria, Gulf states are against Assad! Assad is against Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood and Obama are against General Sisi. But...
FAISALABAD, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Zunaira Muhammad was 15 years old and dreamed of becoming a software engineer when the woman who...
بحرین کے بادشاہ اور وزیر خارجہ 40 سال بعد پاکستان کے سرکاری دورے پر تشریف لائے اور اس دوران پاکستانی حکومت اور اس کی تمام سول و فوجی قیادت نے ان کا بھرپور...
Tarif Khalidi is a big, bearded bear of a man, the kind you would always choose to play Father Christmas, or perhaps a Cossack leader sweeping across the...
Thousands of immigrants to Greece, mainly from Pakistan gather at Athens central Syntagma square on August 24, 2012, during their protest rally against...
لبنان کی سنّی کمیونٹی کی ترجمان سب سے بڑی پارٹی فیوچر پارٹی کے رہنماء اور سابق مرحوم وزیراعظم رفیق حریری کے ساتھی محمد بہا شطح کو بیروت میں اس وقت ہلاک کردیا...
سعودی عرب میں عطیات اور چندہ دینے والوں نے جہاد کے نام پر پچھلے تیس سال میں دیوبندی اور سلفی تکفیری دہشت گردوں کو بنانے اور طاقتور ہونے میں نہایت گھناونا کردار...
Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni (Salafi Wahhabi and Deobandi) jihadist groups over the past 30...
وہابی جہادیوں کا اجتماع شام میں مڈل ایسٹ سمیت پوری دنیا کے امن کو خطرے میں ڈالے ہوئے ہے مشرق وسطی کے فساد نے وہابی دھشت گردوں کو مضبوط کرنا شروع کردیا-امریکی...
• Despite religious differences, two Mideast states work hand-in-glove By Richard Walker To the rest of the world they are strange bedfellows, but Saudi Arabia...
Cambridge, Mass. — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that this weekend’s nuclear deal with Iran increases Iran’s chances of building nuclear...
Israel is working on joining an anti-Iran defense alliance with a number of moderate Arab states that would involve sharing Jerusalem’s newly developed anti...
A new technology of defense is now available that has been scientifically shown to prevent war and create peace by harnessing the deepest level of...
It has been over two years since the Syrian opposition, propelled by long-held and varying grievances, rose against Bashar al Assad. With Assad’s long...
SHAFAQNA exclusive | Dr. Muhammad Rehan Naqvi analyses the situation in Syria This is the English version of the interview that I gave to SHAFAQNA analysing...
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan are the Axis of Evil in the Middle East. U.S. President George W. Bush coined the term “Axis of Evil” when refering...
Members of al-Qaeda have infiltrated Syrian opposition groups, and likely executed recent bombings in the nation’s capital and largest city, the United States’...
If I may ask the reader, would you conduct business with a country where Human Rights Watch list multiple egregious acts against its own society? HRW...
China and Russia are flexing their muscles in the wake of Western actions and policies in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Days after China issued a warning...
The imperialist attack on Libya is yet another reminder that capitalism is governed by Machiavellian principles and is based on lies and deceit. Western...
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The urban trader class in Muslim countries — usually comprising middle-class urbanites — is a conservative section of society. In Pakistan too it has been one...
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George Orwell said: repression is the seed of revolution. The term repression is quite wide in its spectrum as it contains meaning of suppression, tyranny...
