Sunday, January 9th, 2022
Saudi Arabia may run out of interceptor missiles
As Houthi rebel attacks escalate, Riyadh has ‘an urgent situation’ as it runs out of missiles for its air-defence system, Financial Times newspaper reports Monitoring Report JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia could run out of interceptor missiles for its US-made Patriot air-defence system in “months”, according to a senior US official cited by the Financial Times (FT) newspaper, prompting Riyadh to appeal to regional allies for help to replenish the stock. “It’s an urgent situation,” the American official said, adding Washington supports the moves to source missiles from Gulf countries as Yemen’sRead More
All major roads opened for traffic in Murree: ISPR
RAWALPINDI, After the rescue and relief operation ofPakistan Army, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced onSunday that all major roads have been opened for traffic in Murree. According to the details issued by ISPR, the soldiers of Pakistan Armyare still working to open the minor link roads while the strandedtourists have been shifted to Islamabad. Meanwhile, Pakistan Army established relief camps in Murree. Theengineers are busy in opening the roads and the other groups of soldiershave been deployed to provide food and water to the relief camps. On theother hand, theRead More
ITI Cargo Train to go long way in promotion of economic ties
KARAHI, JAN 9 /DNA/ – Leader of the United Business Group President Zubair F. Tufail, Secretary General Zafar Bakhtawari, Secretary Information Dr. Mirza Ikhtiar Baig and other Members of UBG congratulated Shah Mahmood Qureshi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Azam Khan Swati Minister of Railways, and Abdul RazakDawood Advisor to PM on Commerce on inauguration of ITI cargo train. While hailing the launching of Islamabad –Tehran – Istanbul freight train UBG declared it a milestone in expansion of commercial and economic activities in ECO region. They said ITI freight train was a long-standingRead More
2022 – All Doom and Gloom
Fatima Abdullah, Sheeza Sajjad Mazari This year, Pakistan’s economic conditions will surely be in the spotlight after the outbreak of Covid situation in India and Afghanistan being captured by the Talibans’. Pakistan is trying hard to beat the odds, but it is expected that 2022 will be all doom and gloom if Pakistan just survives instead of revising and implementing the strategiesof state. The opposition leaders claimed that leading party, PTI, lacks necessary capabilities to fix the economic conditions and has lost any sympathy it gathered from the general public.Read More
Saudi and Emirati religious moderation inspires few beyond their borders
James Dorsey Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have drawn praise for social reforms that have domestically reduced the role of religion in public life, enhanced women’s rights, and, in the case of the UAE, catered to non-Muslim lifestyles. Yet, Saudi and Emirati efforts to position their countries as the Muslim world’s beacons of an autocratic notion of moderate Islam have done little to encourage moderation beyond their borders despite a radical cutback in decades-long global Saudi funding for the spread of an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam and theRead More
By appeasing Iran, Biden is repeating a historic mistake
Ishtiaq Ahmed The appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s spectacularly failed in its attempt to prevent the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1938, after British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain agreed to the fatal compromise on Czechoslovakia’s German-speaking Sudetenland at Munich, Winston Churchill said: “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.” War broke out a year later after Germany invaded Poland. The rest is history, and its consequences were devastating. Three-quarters of a century down the line, yetRead More