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Zubair Khan

" Holder of three bachelor (honours) degrees in administration, management and strategic studies. Possess more than 40 years of experience on various managerial and adminstrative posts of private and public organizations. Contributes to Urdu and English periodicals regularly. Currently engaged as in charge Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Croatia

Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber

Source: The Daily Beast The Russian military claims it’s making progress on a space plane similar to the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B robotic mini-shuttle. That in itself isn’t terribly surprising or even, for the United States, particularly worrisome. Lots of governments and even private companies are working on space planesthat […]

Eastern Europe Must Grasp Its UN Moment

Source. Balkan Insight Among all criteria which may be of interest for the UN members, there is a strong international movement to elect for the first time a woman Secretary-General. That element in the complex election puzzle should not be ignored. The global trend in this aspect will have its […]

The third gender

Source: ET For the vast majority in Pakistan, the third gender is an unknown. Hijras/eunuchs, transsexuals, transvestites and hermaphrodites continue to live on the social periphery, confined within their own communities and excluded from ordinary civic and social life. Our interaction with them is limited to a curious glance from […]

After Brexit Germany exposing its Military Muscle

Zubair K Khan During current NATO summit in Warsaw, Germany showed willingness to pledge to station rotating military battalions in Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from 2017 as a collective deterrent against Russian adventurism which clearly indicates Europe’s most populous country wants to assume a bigger defence role, within the frameworks […]

Putin’s phone call put Obama in a fix

Source. Asia Times Putin’s phone call put Obama in a fix just as he was preparing to leave for Warsaw for the summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from July 8-9.This was not the moment when Obama can afford to be seen discussing with Putin the nitty-gritty […]

Germany passes historic law on refugee integration

Source: The Local The legislation sets out how to spur integration in a country traditionally slow to embrace newcomers, while laying down their rights and responsibilities in their adopted country. Europe’s largest economy last year took in more than one million asylum seekers, prompting much soul-searching as well as criticism […]

Berlin Leftist Rioting Leaves 120 Officers Injured

Source: abcnews.go.com Police say more than 120 officers were injured and 86 demonstrators were detained during leftist riots in the German capital which police call “the most aggressive and violent protests in the last five years.” Berlin police said in a statement Sunday that protesters threw bottles, cobblestones and fireworks, destroyed […]