Boris Johnson won the race to lead the ruling Conservative Party and become Britain’s next prime minister, repeating in his victory speech a pledge to pull the nation out of the European Union by Oct. 31—but the challenge he faces to meet that deadline became quickly apparent. Several ministers—including Justice Secretary David Gauke—resigned, indicating they would...
New Delhi/ 21 July: To discuss about the preparation of a 3-Day International Seminar on the occasion of Silver Jubilee celebration of Markazul Ma’arif Education and Research Centre (MMERC), a meeting was held on Thursday evening, 18 July 2019, in MMERC’s Delhi office. Dr. Mufti Obaidullah Qasmi, Assistant Prof. Dr Zakir Hussain College of...
One should not underestimate the effectiveness of SAM-centric air defense strategies. Notably, the 1973 Yom Kippur War’s early stages and the Egyptian air defense units’ record revealed the fact that ground-based air defenses could indeed bleed modern air forces. Likewise, lessons-learned from the 2008 Russo-Georgian War are very telling in this respect. Thanks to the upgrades by...
On July 12, 2019, Turkey began receiving the first batch of the S-400 deliveries from Russia. Ankara’s aspirant procurement can fundamentally transform the Turkish military strategic posture. Above all, acquiring a game-changing Russian surface-to-air missile (SAM) system will lead to drastic changes in the Turkish Air Force’s concept of operations (CONOPS). Inevitably, a novel operational art...
Pakistani Prime Minister Khan will be paying a three-day trip to the US starting from July 21. This will be his first official visit as the head of the South Asian state, as well as his first face-to-face meeting with US President Trump. This is the next logical step in the global pivot state’s geopolitical...
Egypt’s only elected President, Mohammed Morsi, is dead. He died in court, apparently of a heart attack. But the reality is that the Egyptian dictatorship murdered him, and thus by US imperialism. He had been denied much-needed medical treatment by the military regime. His supporters called the death “full-fledged murder.” Second, only to Israel, the Egyptian military regime has long...
For years US terror warnings have focused on groups like Al Qaeda or Daesh, but the latest warnings from US law enforcement agencies point to homegrown terrorists as the most immediate danger. The United States has been in a permanent state of war since the attacks of September 11, 2001, finding itself voluntarily involved in...
More than 1 million Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang region of China, their native land, are believed to have been interned in so-called reeducation camps by the Chinese authorities. The number may be as high as 2 or 3 million—out of a population of 11 million. Trapped along with them are Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Uzbeks,...
The fact not a single leader of a Muslim majority country has spoken out either forcibly or frequently against China’s cultural genocide in Xinjiang, one that constitutes the largest industrial scale persecution of a religious minority since the Holocaust, leaves ordinary Muslims asking what it is they can do to save 12 million of their...
Turkey has three possible courses of action in response to the civil war in Syria: diplomatic engagement, isolation or military intervention. The idea at the outset was to bring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table with the opposition, and to persuade them to find common ground, focusing on rights and freedoms and swift...