Qaisar Mansoor Islamophobia has taken a “most lethal form” in India, turning some 250 million Indian Muslims into a “persecuted minority”, Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned scholar, author and activist, has said. “The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the West — (but) it is taking its most
By Umair Jamal Last week, India accidentally fired a ballistic missile at its nuclear armed arch-rival, Pakistan. Islamabad’s measured response to the event, which has been lauded widely, perhaps averted a calamity. However, the event, and India’s delayed and casual response to it, has not only set
By HASAN ISMAIK At least three Syrian children are dead this month from inadequate protection against the snowstorms and subzero temperatures that have made 2022 the coldest winter in 40 years in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. Their mothers are among Syria’s 6.8 million internally
Berlin: Germany plans to buy up to 35 US-made F-35 fighter jets and 15 Eurofighter jets, a parliamentary source said Monday, as part of a major push to modernise the armed forces in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The F-35 jets made by Lockheed Martin
Geneva: The World Health Organisation advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters. Biosecurity experts say Russia's movement of troops into Ukraine and bombardment of
Tehran: Iran has claimed responsibility for a missile barrage that struck early on Sunday near a sprawling US consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two of its Revolutionary Guards. No injuries
Moscow/Frankfurt: Russia detained more than 800 people for protesting Moscow’s “military operation” in Ukraine, as the conflict continues for a third week. OVD-Info, which monitors arrests during protests, said police had detained 800 people during demonstrations in 23 Russian cities. A journalist present at a protest in
Kiev: A pregnant woman, whose viral images last week epitomised Russia’s brutality in Ukraine, has died along with her baby. The woman was injured in the bombing of a maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol. Last Wednesday, images captured the woman stroking her bloodied belly as
Riaz Mohammad Khan THE Russian invasion of Ukraine is a point of inflection in world affairs, similar to the US outreach to China in the early 1970s and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The situation is unfolding. There are many imponderables including how
Rahul Bedi Islamabad’s sharp response to the Indian defence ministry admitting a missile had been “accidentally fired” into Pakistan last week has dented India’s credibility as a responsible, mature and accountable nuclear-weapon state. “India’s incompetence or carelessness, or both, in inadvertently firing this missile into Pakistan, has