Israel-UAE deal
August 15 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The peace deal between Israel and the UAE announced on Thursday seemingly came out of the blue. But for those aware of happenings in th...
Difficult journey for Mahathir's new party
August 12 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Tun Dr Mahathir
Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced that he would set up a new political party.&nbs...
Modi's acolytes have reminded India's Muslims just what he...
August 7 ,2020
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By: Siddhartha Deb
Mussolini confided in his son that one of his nightmares was that he would be put on trial at New York’s Madison Square Garden, i...
Changing dynamics
July 24 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The geopolitical calculus in Pakistan’s immediate neighbourhood is clearly changing, and those who formulate this country’s...
It’s too early to count Hong Kong out just yet
July 18 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Reaction to the imposition of a national security law on Hong Kong has clouded the vision of the city’s future as a financial and...
Bright spot amid the gloom
July 14 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
In its recently released World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund predicts that the global economy will contract by 4.9...
Fake it like Indian TV
July 11 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
In a short video clip doing the rounds on social media in the past couple of days, Janata Samajwadi Party leader and former foreign min...
PSX attack
June 30 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
After a considerable lull, the spectre of urban terrorism returned with full force to Karachi on Monday morning, as Baloch separatist m...
Indian experts play with fire by challenging one-China pri...
June 16 ,2020
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By: Li Qingqing
Amid China-India border disputes, some Indian experts suggested that India should "rethink" the one-China principle at a webinar on Fri...
How the Supreme Court lets cops get away with murder
May 31 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
A Minneapolis police officer, who was filmed kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes until the life left his body...
India should eschew Western views of China for border peac...
May 29 ,2020
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By: Long Xingchun
India in recent days has illegally constructed defense facilities across the border into Chinese territory in the Galwan Valley region,...
How many Covid deaths? Don’t ask president Trump
May 18 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The fatality numbers are, to be sure, heartbreaking: more than 85,000 Americans dead and more than 1.4 million infected. But many publi...
Iran arms embargo
May 10 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
AS the US has begun to intensify its campaign to renew a UNSC arms embargo against Iran that is due to expire in October, the Islamic R...
In a crisis, true leaders stand out
May 2 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Jacinda Ardern, prime minister of New Zealand
Leadership may be hard to define, but in times of crisis it is easy to identify. As...
India’s Muslims
April 28 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
For Muslims in India, the situation appears to be deteriorating by the day. Indeed, things were never going to be easy for the communit...
Trump: Why waste a crisis?
April 24 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
When things aren’t going smoothly for President Trump, his go-to move is to change the subject to topics that cheer his supporter...
Unfreedom of press
April 23 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
In January, ruling on the blocking of the internet in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370, the Supreme Court laid dow...
Dhaka mustn’t be capitualistic in dealing with border kill...
April 22 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
While indiscriminate border killing of Bangladeshis by India’s Border Security Force has been a major concern for years, the BSF...
Blaming Muslims
April 19 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
IN a radical move that bears all the hallmarks of bigotry, India has brought charges of culpable homicide against a senior cleric for h...
Trump is playing a disgusting political game with our live...
April 11 ,2020
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By: Alex Brandon
Trump had only days before prevented Colorado Gov. Jared Polis from securing 500 ventilators from a private company, instead, taking th...
Washington makes WHO a new scapegoat
April 9 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted the World Health Organization (WHO) for having "been wrong about a lot of things" and accu...
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Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
Ikram Sehgal
Karachi Canvas
Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
