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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

Bajwas can’t take Qadian lightly

Source: The Tribune India All three candidates will have to contend with the (Sucha Singh) Chhotepur factor. The AAP-turned-APP leader may be trying his luck from the adjoining seat of Gurdaspur, but he still wields influence in Qadian. Pre-delimitation, he had contested from the now-defunct Dhariwal seat, which now forms […]

Will 2017 be lucky for Vladimir Putin?

Source: CNN The first is the United States. Trump is unpredictable; with his election victory, American politics are now even more so. Admittedly, the Republicans hold both the White House and Congress, but, to put it mildly, not every Republican is a Trump supporter. The skepticism is especially marked when […]

Greek ambassador killed by wife’s lover

Source:TOI On Friday, police investigator Evaristo Pontes Magalhaes said that 29-year-old police officer Sergio Gomes Moreira Filho had confessed to killing Amiridis, alleging self-defense. He said the policeman was having an affair with the ambassador’s 40-year-old wife, Francoise. Filho’s cousin, Eduardo de Melo, acknowledged taking part in the killing as […]

How to Topple Merkel in 2017

Source:Handles Blatt Global It’s freezing cold outside when Gerhard Schröder invites us into his comfortable office near the zoo in Hanover. The former chancellor has just returned from representing Germany at Fidel Castro’s funeral in Havana and will be traveling to Turkey afterwards. But a number of things are also turning frosty […]

The wrong man

Source: Dawn IT was the week before Christmas and, like all cities in the Western world, Berlin was lit up, the air was cold and the mood festive. At the Christmas market near the Zoologischer Garten train station, people milled about shopping and enjoying themselves. A short distance away, a […]

2016: The year we got it all wrong

Source: CNN This was a year when predictions were shattered, polls discredited, facts eschewed and rationality dismissed. “Populism” spread like wildfire across the West, thumbing its nose at elites seen by so many voters as complacent and self-serving. The liberal international order built after 1945, triumphant when the Berlin Wall […]