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    Why sectarian tensions continue to simmer in Pakistan’s Kurram district

    A picturesque mountainous region in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Kurram has been plagued by tensions since late July, when a land dispute between Shia and Sunni tribes resulted in at least 46 deaths.

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    How the US became blind to Israeli terror

    ICJ finding of a “plausible genocide” in Gaza, and subsequent ruling that Israel is responsible for an apartheid system in the West Bank and East Jerusalem would not have surprised former US Presidents

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    Why was Pakistan’s PM in Russia amid the Ukraine invasion?

    Against a backdrop of rapidly rising tensions between Russia and the West, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s long-planned February 23-24 visit to Moscow,the official state visit by a Pakistani head of government in two decades

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    Something Is Rotten in Jerusalem

    Anyone interested in understanding the root of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict need only visit East Jerusalem. There you can see all the major flashpoints.

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    Why Bangladesh is being called ‘South Asian Economic Miracle'

    Bangladesh has achieved enviable success in various fields including poverty alleviation, expansion of education, development of women, reduction of child and maternal mortality rate.

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    Çay required? New regulations for becoming a Turkish citizen in 2022

    Becoming a Turkish citizen could bring many benefits with it, being able to boast a grand history of empires, free education and university, and full medical assistance.

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    Should Bangladesh Lease Land from South Sudan?

    For a long period of time, Bangladesh has been striving to ensure food security at home by planning to shop farmland abroad. Recently, South Sudan, has expressed interest in leasing vast area of fallow land to Bangladesh

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    How Uttar Pradesh Elections Will Determine PM Modi's Future

    The outcome of the elections in Uttar Pradesh will be a litmus test for the BJP. This will largely determine the Hindu nationalist party’s political future.

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    Biden is enabling America's indefensible history with Saudi Arabia

    When Yemeni Houthi rebels struck Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, killing three people on Jan. 17, the Biden administration strongly condemned what it called “terrorist attacks.” It was the 14th time the State Department

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    AUKUS vs. QUAD: A Reality Check

    THE past week saw the US’s hard push to contain China in its own backyard, by the formation of a new defence agreement known as AUKUS, with no precedent in diplomatic world.

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    Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation

    Fourth, the War on Terror has also been politically defeated in the United States. The majority of Americans are now in favor of withdrawal from Afghanistan and against any more foreign wars.

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    The Reality Check

    Israel has started talking tough about going to war with Iran. Then Hezbollah sent a reality check. 2006 will forever haunt Israel as it confronts the fact that, when comes to shove, it's not as capable as it claims to b

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    Yemen: Saudi Arabia's Vietnam

    For Riyadh it is a terrible loss of face - not only are the Houthis anything but broken, the kingdom is now incapable of even ensuring its own safety. Hundreds of billions of dollars spent buying ultra-sophisticated mili

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    Iraq and Syria win wars against ISIS, but US and Turkey will not leave

    Iraq and Syria have declared victory over the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), an international jihadi network whose presence in the Middle East drew in multiple local.

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    Trump and Tehran: This is not 2003 and Iran is not Iraq

    Narrative-building is an art and former US President Barack Obama was a master charmer. Hence, maintaining the image of the United States as the exceptional.

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    Is ISIS gaining ground in Indian side of Kashmir?

    A raging debate over whether Islamic State really exists in Kashmir has taken social media by storm over the last few weeks. The tipping point was the funeral of Eisa Fazli, a militant.

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    Bin Salman’s US visit is a shopping trip for war

    Saudi rulers tend to visit the U.S. when they are in their eighties, so it should be refreshing to see a younger face emerge among from one of the world's richest countries, which is also home to Islam's.

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    Everything you need to know about Persian New Year ‘Nowruz’

    April might have been the ‘cruelest’ month for a pessimist like T. S. Eliot, who described the month in ‘The Waste Land’ as the time when lilacs are bred out of the dead land, memory and desire.

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    Resurging Sinhala Buddhist Ethno Nationalism and Shrinking Space for Muslims in Sri Lanka

    The systematic ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya population in Myanmar, the periodic attacks on Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, recent but constant attacks on Muslim minorities

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    Laying Claim to India

    During the first week of January last year, a group of Indian scholars gathered in a white bungalow on a leafy boulevard in central New Delhi. The focus of their discussion: how to rewrite the history of the nation.

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    Why is Bangladesh PM rejoicing the arrest of former PM  

    The day a court sent Bangladesh's former prime minister, Khaleda Zia, to prison for five years for stealing money from a trust fund, current prime minister and Zia's archrival, Sheikh Hasina, rhetorically

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    Syria War: What the mainstream media isn’t telling you about Eastern Ghouta

    Before Eastern Ghouta it was Aleppo and before Aleppo it was Madaya and before Madaya it was Homs, and so on. All of these places were framed as though there were no armed insurgents present

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    Saudi Arabia reforms: Allowing song and dance while crushing dissent does not indicate a progressive direction

    Saudi Arabia, a custodian of the most sacred sites of Islam and the Arab world’s most important economy, has been experiencing rapid changes over the past few years, particularly since the death of King Abdullah in 2015.

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    Why is Israel Afraid of Rising Iran

    Scientific research flourishes in contemporary Iran as it withers away in Sunni countries. Tehran has been able to develop advanced research institutes, an independent military industry and a nuclear program.

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