Pakistan at present suffers from two contentious issues: 1) high tariff of energy products and 2) long outages of electricity and gas supplies. Ironically for improving cash flow of utilities the successive governments have been resorting to hike in tariff. However, experts say each hike in tariffs in turn offers incentives to pilfer more. The […]
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Power in international politics means a set of state capacities that is mainly contributed by different factors from geography to natural resources to the quality of its human demography and industrial capacity. Nevertheless, state capacities are most commonly manifested by the level of military that a country has attained. Inevitably, that kind of military power […]
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During his first televised policy speech as Prime Minister on 19 August, Nawaz Sharif indicated his government’s intent to hold talks with militants (specifically Pakistani Taliban or TTP) in the country, “I take a step forward and invite for dialogue all those elements who have unfortunately adopted the path of extremism.” While he blamed the […]
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) can access data on smart phones using the world’s most popular systems including iOs, Android, and even BlackBerry – which markets itself to be highly secure, according to a new report. The NSA has tapped into all the leading mobile operating systems to gain access to contact lists, SMS […]
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The advisor of Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamenei on strategy issues Alireza Forghani has published several threats against the US and President Obama personally in his web blog. Forghani writes that if the US attacks Syria, children and other relatives of high-ranking US politicians will be kidnapped all over the world withing 21 hours after […]
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By Molly Corso A revival of the Orthodox faith in Georgia appears to be coinciding with an uptick in discrimination against the country’s Muslim population. For centuries, Georgians have defined their existence in ‘us-versus-them’ terms, as a struggle to survive as a tiny Orthodox Christian nation in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood. This concept has been […]
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By Bernhard Schell While the focus of international attention has shifted to Syria, interest in Egypt is on the wane, despite the fact that political stalemate continues there and the country is reeling under the impact of one of the bloodiest events epitomized, among others, by the government crack-down on protests organized by the Muslim […]
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By Felix K. Chang This year, Asian defense spending will surpass that of Europe for the first time in over half a millennium. A steep drop in European military expenditures after the Cold War, a concurrent and steady rise in Chinese expenditures, and a recent sharp increase in defense spending across the rest of Asia […]
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Dear President Obama: Little did your school boy chums in Hawaii, watching you race up and down the basketball court, know how prescient they were when they nicknamed you “Barry O’Bomber”. Little did your fellow Harvard Law Review editors, who elected you to lead that venerable journal, ever imagine that you could be a president […]
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The thematic report on the situation of migrants and refugees in Morocco was submitted to HM King Mohammed VI by the national human rights council (CNDH), in accordance with article 24 of the Dahir (Royal decree) creating the council and with its prerogatives as outlined by articles 13 to 17, says a release of the […]
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HERE, a Nokia business, announced Monday ahead of the Frankfurt Motor Show that it has partnered with the Mercedes-Benz division of Daimler and two of the world’s leading automotive system integrators, Continental Corporation and Magneti Marelli. These partners are building on the HERE Connected Driving framework to offer individual connected products and services that go […]
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Certain comments made by the United National Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Seoul in the last week of August about the need to have a ‘correct view of the past history’ of Northeast Asia made headlines in Japan and evoked sharp disapproval, forcing Ban to express regret about his remarks. Expressing regret about the misunderstanding, Ban […]
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By Ambreen Agha The brouhaha over the impending ‘peace talks’ between Nawaz Sharif led Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Government and the Hakimullah Mehsud led Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) seems to have subsided for some time now. On August 31, 2013, TTP ‘spokesperson’ Shahidullah Shahid denied any level of talks with the Government, adding that no contacts […]
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By Ajit Kumar Singh With the drawdown of allied Forces inching closer, the Afghan Taliban and its affiliates in their pursuit of the enforcement of a brutal extremist Islamism have escalated violence and oppression against women across the country. Women who defied the Taliban’s diktat and came out of their homes to started work have […]
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Opposing infringement on parental control of education and promoting alternatives to government-run schools is a vital task for the liberty movement. When government usurps a parent’s right to control their child’s education, it is inevitable that the child will be taught the values of government officials, rather than of the parents. The result is an […]
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By Edona Peci and Darko Duridanski The trade dispute between Pristina and Skopje escalated as Kosovo imposed a total embargo on imports of Macedonian products in retaliation for restrictions on some of its exports. Pristina imposed its embargo on Monday after initially introducing a ban on Macedonian food imports last week as a response to […]
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By Igor Jovanovic After several months of consideration within the ruling coalition and a heated three-day debate in parliament, Serbia’s reshuffled cabinet is primarily expected to accelerate the country’s European integration and bring about the recovery of the ailing economy. The epilogue of the government reshuffle is that it now has one less party – […]
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The Obama administration’s campaign for war against Syria is so flagrantly wrong, so ill-advised and so illegal, that it is making a fool of both the president and his secretary of state, John Kerry. Certainly Kerry, who was in combat in Vietnam, where he commanded a river boat in the waterways of the lower Mekong […]
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(RFE/RL) — English and Ukrainian soccer fans have clashed in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Three English fans were hospitalized. Police say the fight, involving 40 English fans and more than 20 Ukrainians, broke out after the two sides traded insults in a cafe on the night of September 8. According to eyewitnesses, the English fans […]
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The Guardian reports: President Bashar al-Assad did not personally order last month’s chemical weapons attack near Damascus that has triggered calls for US military intervention, and blocked numerous requests from his military commanders to use chemical weapons against regime opponents in recent months, a German newspaper has reported, citing unidentified, high-level national security sources. The […]
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