Why now is the time to connect the Caspian to the world
LUKE COFFEY December 23, 2022 DAILY SABAH Short Url The presidents of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan — Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ilham Aliyev, and Serdar Berdimuhamedov — met last week in […]
Far-right anti-Arab party joins proposed Netanyahu coalition in Israel
Agreements with parties to support Likud in power could regularise illegal settlements in occupied territories Ben Lynfield in JerusalemThu 22 Dec 2022 Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that an extremist anti-Arab […]
Taliban minister defends closing universities to women as global backlash grows
Neda Mohammad Nadeem says ban was necessary to prevent mixing of genders as rare protests break out Guardian staff and agenciesFri 23 Dec 2022 00.52 GMT The minister of higher […]
Pakistan: Police Attacks Ahmadi Mosque in Gujranwala
12/19/2022MASSIMO INTROVIGNEA+ | A- In Baghbanpura, in the urban area of Gujranwala, Punjab, the Ahmadis covered decorative minarets with an iron sheet to make them invisible. It was not enough. by Massimo […]
Tackling the pandemic of debt
JOSE ANTONIO OCAMPO December 23, 2022 Short Url The COVID-19 pandemic increased low and middle-income countries’ debt levels to a 50-year high. With soaring inflation, rising interest rates and the […]
Pakistan: Imran Khan’s high-stakes election gamble
bbc.com By Samira Hussain BBC News Pakistan’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, is threatening to dissolve two provincial assemblies in a high-stakes attempt to force the federal government to hold […]
‘Being a girl is a heavy crime’: Afghan women in despair over university ban
Rights and freedomAfghanistan Taliban prohibit female higher education indefinitely amid international condemnation Supported by About this content Zahra JoyaWed 21 Dec 2022 It was late evening in Kabul, and Sabra*, […]
Israeli actions in West Bank’s Area C ‘seriously threaten the two-state solution’
The Palestinian Authority has protested against growing restrictions imposed on Palestinian development in Israeli-controlled parts of the West Bank, known as Area C. (Reuters/File) Short Url Updated 28 sec ago […]
Hajj and Umrah Ministry launches educational short film ‘The Journey of a Lifetime’
SPECIAL 1 / 4 The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah launches the short film ‘The Journey of a Lifetime.’ (Twitter/@HajMinistry) SPECIAL 2 / 4 The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah launches the […]
Netanyahu’s extremists will undermine Abraham Accords
RAY HANANIA December 21, 2022 Short Url The irrepressibly buoyant and resilient Benjamin Netanyahu proved his critics wrong when he forged a far-right coalition that dominated Israel’s elections last month […]
Fears of widening gender inequality in Afghanistan as Saudi Arabia joins calls to Taliban to keep university doors open to women
SPECIAL Female students stand outside a university in Kabul after Taliban security prevented them from entering on Wednesday. (AFP) Updated 38 sec ago ROBERT EDWARDS December 21, 2022 LONDON: Saudi Arabia […]
Analysis: Politics and Islam bring Indonesian compromise on criminal code
By Kate Lamb and Ananda Teresia JAKARTA, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s new criminal code has grabbed headlines for making sex outside marriage illegal but Islamic parties wanted even harsher punishment for […]
Pakistan in dire straits: Dawn
Editorial Notes The paper says mass layoffs seems almost inevitable, which will fuel even more social upheaval and public dissatisfaction. DEC 20, 2022 ISLAMABAD – With the government left with […]
Looking back at Qatar 2022 World Cup: Hypocrisy vs. sportswashing
BY BURCU BAŞARAN DEC 20, 2022 – DAILY SABAH Just completely ignoring everything that is wrong with Qatar 2022 under the pretext of opposing hypocrisy, racism and Islamophobia is, to […]
Jordan’s strikes may be just the tip of the iceberg
OSAMA AL-SHARIF December 20, 2022 Jordan is going through testing times. A truckers’ and public transportation strike over high fuel prices has stalled the economy and interrupted supply chains, while […]
Palestine on a knife-edge as extremists surge to power
BARIA ALAMUDDIN December 20, 2022 Last month, 30,000 Israelis descended upon occupied Hebron — where a few hundred radical Zionists live amid 200,000 Palestinians — and proceeded to attack citizens […]
Cleaning out the black hole
Dec 20,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen Amman has courageously entered the Jordanian film “Farha” for 2023 Oscars. This is a courageous action because “Farha” is the story told […]
Qadian Jalsa comes alive
Col DS Cheema (Retd) In 1948, my father was appointed headmaster of Khalsa High School at Qadian. I was then a few months short of my fifth birthday. I passed […]
‘What was her crime?’ Agony as Palestine mourns another child killed by Israel
Shortly after Israeli forces raided the city of Jenin on Sunday, a 15-year-old girl was found dead on her roof, riddled with bullet wounds Mourners react as they attend the […]
How the World Cup cynics took their eye off the ball
FAISAL J. ABBAS December 20, 2022 And so the curtain falls on Qatar 2022, indisputably one of the most dramatic World Cups in football history — both on and off […]