Only 2 percent of the 1.3 billion people who live in Africa have been vaccinated. Yet there are plenty of surplus doses in wealthy countries. Fair distribution has been little more than an illusion so far. By Marco Evers10.09.2021, 16.16 Uhr The battle against the coronavirus is proving to be a […]
The Taliban dilemma Maleeha Lodhi Published September 13, 2021 – DAWN.COM THERE was little surprise in the Taliban’s announcement of an all-male government composed almost entirely of its old guard and with top posts […]
(Reuters file) He gave several examples of Muslim countries where women have an active role in the society. Qatar’s foreign minister said on Monday the Gulf state has asked the […]
By Charlotte Greenfield 1/2 Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political chief of Afghanistan’s Taliban, in Tianjin, China July 28, 2021. Li Ran/Xinhua […]
By Andrew Korybko International August 31, 2021 – TEHRAN TIMES The U.S. panicked retreat from Afghanistan following the Taliban’s complete takeover of the country leaves many lessons to be learned […]
Direct Democracy Since 9/11, popular votes have increasingly been aimed against Islam, replacing the anti-Semitic and anti-communist slogans of the time before the terrorist attacks. Healthy democracies, however, have not […]
The ‘FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11’. Vice President Cheney says, ‘We’ve never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was […]
OIC Secretary-General Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen. (AFP file photo) Short Url https://arab.news/23uut Al-Othaimeen stressed the need to support OIC countries in achieving self-sufficiency in food production through mobilizing the organization’s […]
FOLLOW THE FOOD Why we still haven’t solved global food insecurity BY WILLIAM PARK The number of people living in food insecurity grows every year And the pandemic has made […]
Epigraph Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your […]
The challenge on this anniversary is to understand how and why the West elected to promote al-Qaeda as the counterweight to the US – a 21st-century equivalent of the Soviet […]
11th September 2021 Jalees Ahmad, London In this day and age, the most influential tool to spread information is press and media. Day in and day out, a plethora of stories […]
MAGAZINE: EDITION MAY 2021Abdul Sattar Khan – Colombia UNTOLD STORIES 11th September 2021 Abdul Sattar Khan, Colombia As I recall the month of April 2014, it was a bright, sunny […]
BY FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP ISLAMABAD ASIA PACIFIC SEP 11, 2021 11:06 AM GMT+3A Pakistan International Airlines passenger jet is parked on the tarmac at a military base in Makassar, Indonesia, March […]
Passengers place their belongings in bins before passing through the passenger security checkpoint at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 8 on October 22, 2010. (File/AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/5u8w9 As […]
YOSSI MEKELBERG September 11, 2021 21:44208 Short Url https://arab.news/w5ybm No watershed in post-Cold War US politics and international affairs has been more remarkable than 9/11. It was a defining moment by […]
RANVIR S. NAYARSeptember 11, 2021 22:22345 Short Url https://arab.news/vuysu Those watching British news in recent weeks could not have failed to notice that the normally boring UK retail sector was vying […]
How Self-Dealing Elites Failed in Both Countries By Sarah Chayes September 3, 2021 In 2005, I visited a branch of Afghanistan’s national bank in Kandahar to make a deposit. I was launching a cooperative that would craft skin-care products for export, using oils extracted from local almonds and apricot kernels and […]
Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success Al Qaeda Changed the World—but Not in the Way It Expected By Nelly Lahoud September/October 2021 On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda carried out the deadliest foreign […]
Why Washington Failed to Win Over Islamabad—and Prevent a Taliban Victory By Daniel Markey September 9, 2021 The U.S. failure in Afghanistan also reflects the failure of Washington’s approach to Pakistan. […]