Asad Mirza

No answer to the Palestinian question yet

May 19, 2023

Nakba Day marks the beginning of Palestinians’ exodus from their homeland, but for the last 75 years the international community has been unable to give the Palestinians their right to their own homeland. On 15th May 2023, for the first time in history, the United Nations 2023 marked the 75th...

Big loss for the Conservative Party in UK local polls

May 11, 2023

The local elections held in the UK last week, surprisingly showed a better than expected performance by the Labour Party, besides a question mark over the Conservative Party’s future at the next general elections. Last week’s local elections in the UK, political fortunes were swayed once again by the voters...

India talks tough at SCO meet

May 1, 2023

Indian Defence Minister categorically took China to task for border transgressions and asserted that Sino-Indian relations are premised on the prevalence of peace and tranquility at the borders. Last week at the Shanghai Cooperation Council’s Defence Ministers’ meeting, India adopted a very tough stand to deal with its immediate neighbour...

Muslims trail behind in the UK, reveals Census data

March 31, 2023

Concerns have been raised both within and outside the UK about the status of the Muslim population, as per the figures released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), UK, recently. Census data shows that unemployment level amongst Muslims was as high as one in 20 people aged 16-64, this...

Saudi-Iran Rapprochement: A Victory for China

March 25, 2023

The manner in which China has brokered a peace deal between two arch foes: Saudi Arabia and Iran may help China to emerge as a global peacemaker, eclipsing the USA. Last week a major diplomatic coup was staged by China, when it announced the results of its successfully mediated efforts,...

Majoritarianism on March in Israel

March 18, 2023

The Israeli Parliament has given initial approval to several pieces of legislation, including a Bill protecting the prime minister from being declared unfit for office, or incapacitated, and another to allow settlements in the northern West Bank. Israel’s Parliament, The Knesset, on 14 March advanced a Parliamentary Bill that would...

US-China Balloon Row

February 25, 2023

It seems as if the spy balloon episode will not disappear after the shooting down of a Chinese balloon over the U.S. soil, instead it will continue to fly at least for some more time, as a war of words between two nations continue. The ongoing tussle between the U.S....

Need to reassess composite nationalism

February 18, 2023

Husain Ahmad Madani was a traditional Islamic scholar and a political activist, as well as an advocate of both a unified global Islamic polity and an Indian nation- state democracy, in which Muslims and non-Muslims were to consider one another as equal members of the same nation; and each of...

Huge surge in Indo-US Defence ties

February 11, 2023

Earlier, this month during the visit of NSA Ajit Doval to the United States, India and the U.S., kickstarted the inaugural dialogue on the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET). In addition, the two sides announced a set of programmes whose aim is to increase the depth and scope...

AMERICAN PUSH TO REJUVENATE THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS

January 27, 2023

The historic Abraham Accords may not have contributed substantially to resolving the political impasse, as expected between Israel and Arab nations, but they have been able to bolster the economic and trade relations in the region. It seems as if the United States has taken another step towards being a...

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