A couple days ago, I gave my latest views of the US use of drone assassination attacks, especially their substantial increase of usage by the Obama administration, in Pakistan. I am overall very pro-Drone use, but believe we can overuse them as a strategic tool. Here is a video of some members of the Wall […]
I have been struggling for a while now to find something positive, if not uplifting about Pakistan, but despite my consistent efforts, I have been largely unsuccessful in my quest. I called friends, journalists, government officials and private citizens across Pakistan but all of them shared horror stories about life in Pakistan. So, what is […]
Two years ago – February 2008 – Pakistan began its transformation to democracy with a general election that brought Benazir Bhutto’s PPP (Pakistan People’s Party) into power. The party decided to continue its policy, introduced by its slain leader Ms. Bhutto, of reconciliation with all political players. It formed a coalition government with its rival […]
The student affiliates of the major political parties have always had a major hand in the decades long perverse politicking in Bangladesh. Time and again mutually non-deterrent and devastating clashes have shut down the major cities in Bangladesh. Student leaders of these political groups often find lucrative contracts in the private sector; alternatively they […]
According to the opposition website National Council of Resistance of Iran, the government is taking some pretty stark measures to control the planned protests to take place on February 11, 2010, in honor of the anniversary of the takeover by the Islamic Revolution Regime. The government has asked students to spy on classmates and report […]
Nigeria’s Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has now taken over as the country’s Interim President, a position he will maintain until (and if) President Umaru Yar-Adua is able to recover from his rather dire health problems and return from Saudi Arabia. Theoretically the country has thus avoided a major political crisis and Jonathan said all of […]
At the beginning of the year, FPA blogs each announced a “Person of the Year,” with abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit obtaining the title from the Israel Blog. Ha’artez took it one step further and held a “Person of the Decade” contest. For that “honor,” the Israel blog selected former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for […]
Most observers are weary of new calls for peace talks. And that is due to a very good reason. Past peace talks led nowhere. And most of us are equally skeptical of any prospect of development, peace, freedom and equality for all in Arab World. The people of the Middle East have been ruled by […]
Guinea’s interim president, General Sekouba Konate, has named Rabiatou Serah Diallo, secretary general of Guinea’s National Workers Confederation, to head a council charged with managing the country’s long-awaited transition from military to civilian rule. The National Transition Council will consist of 101 Guineans from civil society, political parties, religious groups and members of the ruling […]
South Africa’s Congress of the People has weighed in on Jacob Zuma’s recent revelations about his out-of-wedlock child. The upstart party, facing its own internal turmoil, plans to call for a motion of no confidence in Zuma when Parliament resumes this week. The gesture is almost certain to amount to symbolic grandstanding, though if all […]
We are fast approaching the year anniversary of the fragile alliance that is Zimbabwe’s Unity Government,” and while the worst aspects of the country’s economic disaster have stabilized, virtually no progress has been made on breaking the impasse that has set in between Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC. And of course […]
Now that Yanukovich has won, has Ukraine finally rejected the Orange Revolution and returned to Russia’s fold? Not so fast. In one of the great ironies of the election, Yanukovich’s clean campaign and victory in the most transparent election in his country’s history embodied the values of the 2004 revolution that ousted him, while Timoshenko’s […]
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