The occasional burst of candour from US diplomats provides a striking, air clearing difference to their Australian and British counterparts. Official statements about the AUKUS security pact between Washington, London and Canberra, rarely mention the target in so many words, except on the gossiping fringes. Commentators and think tankers are essentially given free rein to speculate, masticating over such streaky […]

The UN covenant on civil and political rights which came in to effect in 1966, lays down the right and principle of self-determination under Article 1 as follows:- “All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that they freely determine their political status and thereby pursue their economic, social and cultural development”. UN adopted this principle bearing in […]

Saudi Arabia announced a packed calendar of events for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr holiday, from theater to concerts and daily firework displays. Public and private sector employees in the Kingdom will get five days off from April 9, including the weekend, to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan, which began on March 11. For more Saudi news, […]

The Islamic Emirate has blasted the United States for violating and “occupying” Afghanistan’s airspace through the use of drones. In an interview with Afghanistan National Radio and Television (RTA), Hamdullah Fitrat, Deputy Spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, asked the US and other countries to immediately stop flying drones in Afghanistan’s airspace. He also called on regional countries to not allow […]

Introduction The national election time in India has started and in June India will have a new government in place based on these election results. These are widely regarded as very important elections for the country. While ideally elections are about considering and debating the various paths of socio-economic development, politics and governance, continuity and change, in practice a comprehensive […]

With its “war on terrorism,” the United States launched a global campaign against the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks as well as a number of other targets. The campaign probably created more terrorists than it killed. Moreover, U.S. interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq—the first with only a tangential relationship to al-Qaeda, the second with no connection whatsoever—killed a huge number […]

India’s general election, the world’s largest electoral exercise, will be held from 19 April to 1 June 2024. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party have been successfully pushing the narrative that the election results are a foregone conclusion and it is only a matter of their party increasing its numbers. Earlier this year, Modi unusually made a […]

On March 5, 2024, weeks before the March 22, 2024 attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue in Moscow, in which approximately 144 people were killed and for which the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility, Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov met in Kabul with Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is Afghan Taliban Minister of Interior Affairs as well as being […]

Terror organization: Leader of Haqqani Network (HQN) and senior Taliban Status: Chief of security of the Taliban government. Acting minister for refugees of the Taliban government Roll: Involved in financing the terror organizations and planning operations for attacks that killed hundreds of people. Also, dealing with the connections with Al Qaeda Location: Afghanistan; Date of Birth: January 1, 1966 Place […]

The Haqqani Network has appeared to be the most powerful group in the newly formed Taliban government. Unsurprisingly, four of the clan were nominated as cabinet members. Let’s have a look at the insides of this particular terror group. The Haqqani Network gets its name from the leader of the group, Jalaluddin Haqqani. He first fought the Soviet Army in […]