July 2019
World Bank asks Pakistan government: Reach out to opposition to pass legislation to implement IMF program
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: There are hardly two opinions that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Banks were implementing predatory economic policies of the West. The poor countries are now in the IMF and World Bank debt trap. The rise in debt has been swelled, with external sovereign loans to developing country governments more than doubling from $191 billion per year in 2008 to $424 billion in 2017. Read More
Thus Spake Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
By Syed Rifaquat Ali: India has no coherent foreign policy and both India and Pakistan are fiddling with the Kashmir issue for the last seventy years. Both the poor countries keep strengthening their military might at the expense of the common man which is pyrrhic so to say. Read More
Imamia Medics International Silver Jubilee in San Francisco Bay Area
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Imamia Medics International Silver Jubilee celebration was held on July 20, 2019 at Mehran Restaurant in Newark CA. Maryam Turab was MC of the event. Prominent Urdu poet, Manzar Bhopali was chief guest. Read More
Muslim Caucus meets in Washington amid Trump's attacks
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Muslim political leaders and academics gathered in Washington, DC, on Tuesday (July 23) dubbed as the first national gathering of Muslims in politics in US history. The historic gathering, called by the Muslim Caucus America is being held as President Donald Trump and his supporters ramp up attacks on Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the first two Muslim women in Congress. Read More
Uproar in India over Trump’s Kashmir mediation remarks
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: President Donald Trump, who was singing a different tune about Pakistan two years ago, now realizes his plans for Iran and Afghanistan require stability on the Washington-Islamabad axis, writes The Wire Editor Siddharth Varadarajan. “This is precisely the context of Imran Khan’s visit to the White House, and Trump’s remarks on mediation with India are clearly a product of this process,” he argues. Read More
Kashmir on the boil
By Syed Rifaquat Ali: India's defense minister, Rajnath Singh, while inaugurating the Ujh Bridge in Kathua on July 20, told the media: problem of Kashmir will get solved. No power in the world can stop it. This is indirect threat to Pakistan that if talks fail, India will use military force in Kashmir. It seems India and Pakistan are heading towards an unprecedented catastrophe, forgetting that millions of lives will be lost because of political leaders insanity, if war erupts. Read More
Modi did not ask Trump to mediate Kashmir conflict claims India
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: At a White House press conference Monday (July 22) with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, President Donald Trump said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to mediate the Kashmir conflict. Trump said that Modi had discussed the subject with him during their meeting in Osaka, Japan, last month. In a press statement released shortly after Trump’s press conference, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs stated that Modi had not asked Trump to mediate. Read More
Copycat bills on anti-Sharia law and terrorism have no effect
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: “These copycat bills on Sharia law and terrorism have no effect. So why do states keep passing them?” This is the title of an in-depth report produced after the two-year investigation. This story was part of a collaboration between USA TODAY, The Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity. A far-right think tank pushed model bills on Sharia law and terrorism in dozens of states. Civil rights groups say the goal was to stoke fear, the report said. Read More
The Politics of oil tankers capture
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: In an apparent retaliation of the capture of an Iranian oil tanker by Gibraltar, a British colony, Iran Friday (July 19) captured a British oil tanker. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said in a statement on Friday that the vessel named “Stena Impero” had been impounded “at the request of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Organization when passing through the Strait of Hormuz, for failing to respect international maritime rules.” Read More
ICC World Cup Team 2019
By Syed Rifaquat Ali: Indian skipper Virat Kohli, touted by the tyro media as the world's No.1 batsman in the world, had to bite the dust after India lost to the underdogs New Zealand in the semis in the recently-concluded World Cup in Manchester before a jam-packed stadium. Read More
Russia offers to sell Su-35 jets to Turkey after U.S. ends F-35 deal
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Russia is willing to supply Turkey with Su-35 supersonic multi-purpose fighters if Ankara wants them, the head of Russia's hi-tech conglomerate Rostec Sergei Chemezov said Thursday (July 18), after the United States expelled Turkey from the F-35 program. "If our Turkish colleagues express a desire, we are ready to work out the delivery of the Su-35," Chemezov was quoted by the Chinese News Agency Xinhua as saying. Read More
Pakistan will only release Kulbhushan Jadhav if India 'admits he was a spy': Firstpost
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Faced with orders from the International Court of Justice to review Kulbhushan Jadhav's case in the light of Pakistan breaching the Vienna Convention, Islamabad plans to use third-country diplomatic assistance to explore the possibility of sending him home in return for an official admission from New Delhi that he was engaged in espionage, sources close to the Pakistan government were quoted as saying by the Indian newspaper Firstpost. Read More
ICJ rejects India’s plea for acquittal of alleged Indian spy in Pakistan
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday (July 17) rejected India’s request to ‘acquit, release and return’ of its national Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was sentenced by Pakistan on charges of espionage, however, asked Pakistan to provide him consular access. President of the ICJ Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf from Somalia read out the operational part of the decision in a public sitting at the Peace Palace’s courtroom jam packed with officials, representatives and media persons from Pakistan and India. Read More
Turkey three years after the abortive coup against President Erdogan
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Turkey commemorated Monday the July 15, 2016 failed coup attempt, allegedly orchestrated by the US-based self-exiled Turkish Imam Fethullah Gülen. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan laid flowers on the July 15 Martyrs Monument in the Presidential Complex early in the morning. Erdogan, along with relatives of martyrs and veterans, went to the Bestepe Millet mosque for prayer services for the martyrs. Bakir Izzetbegovic, the former Bosniak member of Bosnia's three-member Presidential Council, also accompanied Erdogan in the commemoration ceremonies. Turkey marks July 15 as Democracy and National Unity Day. The day is commemorated with events honoring those who lost their lives beating back the putschists. Read More
The US House of Representatives denounces Trump ‘racist’ tweets
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The Democrats-led US House of Representatives Tuesday (July 16) formally condemned President Donald Trump’s Twitter posts as racist. The House vote was split largely along party lines despite pressure for Republicans to denounce the president’s attacks on four Democratic Congresswomen that they should "go back" to where they came from. The vote, 240-187, fell nearly entirely along party lines with only four Republicans voting with Democrats. Read More
Trump’s racist Tweets against 4 Congresswomen draws wide condemnation
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: President Donald Trump’s racist tweets against four congresswomen saying go back to their “totally broken and crime infested” countries of origin, were widely condemned Sunday (July 14). "So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," Trump said in an early morning string of tweets. Read More
International Cricket Council: Food For Thought
By Rifaquat Ali: Kudos to International Cricket Council for organizing the ICC World Cup 2019 in England so successfully and efficiently. The abandonment of some matches due to rain and inclement weather conditions was just pathetic since it placed some teams to a great disadvantage, and advantageous to teams lowly placed as it split the points, both teams getting one point each. Read More
Defying US threats Turkey receives Russian S-400 missile defense system
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Turkey on Friday (July 12) received first shipment of Russian S-400 missile defense system hardware from Russia, Turkish Defense Ministry announced. "The first batch of equipment of S-400 missile defense system, which is procured to meet Turkey's air and missile defense needs, has started to arrive at Murted Air Base in Ankara," the ministry said in a statement. Read More
24th anniversary: Srebrenica genocide remembered
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: July 11 marks the 24th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, the worst atrocity on European soil since the World War Two. In July, 1995, Serb forces systematically killed more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in the UN-protected enclave in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Al Jazeera provides a graphic account of the Srebrenica genocide. On July 11, 1995 at 16:15 General Ratko Mladic (now a convicted war criminal) entered Srebrenica with Serb forces, including paramilitary units from Serbia, claiming the town for Serbs. Strolling through the streets with the TV cameras rolling, Mladic announced that there will be "revenge against the Turks". Read More
Former Israeli defense minister says: ‘Our conflict is with the Entire Muslim World’
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Former Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday (July 9) ‘Our conflict is with the entire Muslim world, with the entire Arab world.’ Speaking at a campaign trail meeting in Kiryat Ono, the Yisrael Beiteinu party head described the “conflict” as “three-dimensional” – “with the Arab countries, with the Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.” “We do not have a separate conflict with the Palestinians, and anyone who claims so, does not understand what he is talking about or is being deliberately misleading,” he said. Read More
3,185 extrajudicial killings in Egypt since 2013 by the US-Client El-Sisi’s regime
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) said Tuesday (July 3) as many as 3,185 civilians have been extra-judicially killed by Egyptian security forces since July 3, 2013 when the US-client General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi overthrew the government of President Mohammad Morsi who was the first democratically elected President of Egypt. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has now assumed the title of Field Marshall and became permanent president of Egypt since Egypt's rubber-stamp parliament has overwhelmingly voted to approve constitutional changes to extend his term of office by another 12 years. The Human Rights organization has issued its report on the 6th anniversary on the July 3, 2013 coup against President Mohammad Mosri who collapsed and died last month in Egypt’s Kangaroo court. Read More
US declares India-backed Baloch Liberation Army a terrorist group
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The United States on Tuesday (July 2) declared India-backed Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) as a global terrorist organization. The US State Department said it was classifying the BLA as a global terrorist group, making it a crime for anyone in the United States to assist the militants and freezing any US assets they may have. “The BLA is an armed separatist group that targets security forces and civilians, mainly in ethnic Baloch areas of Pakistan,” the State Department noted, citing reason behind the move. Read More
Open House in Honor of the Schiller Institute by the Consulate of China in San Francisco
By Chuck Park: The Schiller Institute brought America to the People’s Republic of China Consulate in San Francisco the evening of June 27, 2019. About 90 people, including the staff of the consulate had a joyous evening of sharp political presentations, great classical music and a wonderful buffet of excellent Chinese cuisine. The meeting hall of the consulate, as you can see in the photo, had the following on the big screen: “Open House in Honor of the Schiller Institute; Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China San Francisco” Read More
My Thoughts on the G20 Summit in Osaka
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui: The 2019 G20(Group of 20 nations) Osaka summit has ended in Osaka, Japan. It is the fourteenth meeting of G20. It was held on 28–29 June 2019 at the International Exhibition Center in Osaka. It was the first G20 summit hosted by Japan.If history is any guide to the future, the gentlemen’s agreement struck between the leaders of the world’s two largest economies over the weekend in Osaka offers no clear path to rolling back tariffs and ending a trade war that threatens to tip the global economy into recession. Read More
The Lie of the century
By Jafar M. Ramini: Well it’s happened. It’s real. Mr Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and Senior Advisor of President Trump has delivered 136 pages of lies, suppositions and conjuring tricks to seduce or compel us Palestinians to accept our fate and surrender our rights. What rights? As far as this document is concerned Palestinians have no rights whatsoever and as for a Palestinian perspective, what is that? Read More
Lynching is the game changer in New India
Mustafa Khan: The lynching of Tabrez Ansari was by means of threat and violence perpetrated with utter impunity for hours at end, nay, for days together. This is the darkest hour in the history of India which marks a departure of Narendra Modi from the first term as PM since he remained silent in most of such cases instead of condemning. It heralds the worst for the minorities. The miracle is that Tabrez survived to illustrate this fact four days and then died. Read More
Book Review: VVS Laxman: 281 and Beyond
Though VVS Laxman may not be a cricketing legend in the strict sense in Infia, his biography is a fascinating account, recounted by the celebrated journalist R.Kaushik, in the most professional and articulate manner possible.. Read More
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