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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Afghan President’s India Visit to Help Tighten Pakistan Encirclement

Afghan President’s India Visit to Help Tighten Pakistan Encirclement

Saturday 28 October 2017
Kashmir. Indians are following the policy of their ancient realist thinker Kautilya who advised that if a state wants to beat its rival, it needs to befriend the rival’s neighbors and expand relations with them. This will help put pressures and so defeat the opposite side. This is the foundati ...
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What are Drives behind Visit of Pakistani PM’s Brother to Saudi Arabia?

What are Drives behind Visit of Pakistani PM’s Brother to Saudi Arabia?

Saturday 6 January 2018 ،
Kashmir. Meanwhile, China, another actor with sensitivities to what is going on next to its borders, has come against the new American strategy which disposes of Islamabad as an ally. Beijing on December 26, hosted a meeting of the foreign ministers of Pakistan and Afghanistan to improve the two ne ...
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Can Riyadh Go a Middle Path in Dealing with Pakistan and India?

Can Riyadh Go a Middle Path in Dealing with Pakistan and India?

Saturday 23 February 2019 ،
Kashmir, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince bin Salman visited India and Pakistan, while the two neighbors’ tensions have escalated to an alerting level. The economic cooperation with the two countries was high on the agenda of the Asian tour of the Saudi royal. But the different views of Riyad ...
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Is Pakistan’s Imran Khan Being Played by Saudi Arabia?

Is Pakistan’s Imran Khan Being Played by Saudi Arabia?

Tuesday 31 December 2019 ،
Kashmir case in OIC but this is just a game as the Arab kingdom holds huge interests in Pakistan’s rival India. Alwaght- Following Saudi foreign minister's last week trip to Pakistan, diplomatic sources in Islamabad said that Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) would hold a meeting on Kash ...
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How Did Warm Saudi-Pakistani Ties Turned Chilly ?

How Did Warm Saudi-Pakistani Ties Turned Chilly ?

Wednesday 26 August 2020 ،
Kashmir crackdown, triggering Saudi discontentment. Alwaght- The warm Saudi-Pakistani relations turned chilly sooner than it was expected. The chill in Riyadh-Islamabad showed itself when Saudi Arabia turned its back on Islamabad after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman refused to meet Pakistan's ...
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American Tech Giants Are Partnering with India’s Strongman Leader to Crackdown on Dissent

American Tech Giants Are Partnering with India’s Strongman Leader to Crackdown on Dissent

Saturday 13 February 2021 ،
Kashmir, last for hundreds of days at a time. There were 83 shutdowns across India in 2020 and 469 since 2012. Last week, the capital Delhi had its Internet temporarily suspended.   Money talks Prime Minister Modi boasts an enormous online presence. He has over 65 million followers on Twitte ...
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Pakistani Army Chief Invitation to UAE: Goals, Prospects

Pakistani Army Chief Invitation to UAE: Goals, Prospects

Monday 4 October 2021 ،
Kashmir autonomy. Also, the visit is taking place as recently Pakistan played a bigger role in Afghanistan and has been increasingly moving close to Turkey, a geopolitical and ideological rival to the UAE in more than a regional case.  The meeting promotes a question: What is bin Zayed seeking ...
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Imran Khan Fell Victim to Army Game, Western Opposition to Him: Expert

Imran Khan Fell Victim to Army Game, Western Opposition to Him: Expert

Wednesday 13 April 2022 ،
Kashmir, nuclear rivalries, and conflict of policy in Afghanistan have led to very deep differences between the two neighbors. It was due to this difference of views that the army overthrew Sharif's government through popular protests, but Imran Khan's government had a good alignment wi ...
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Will New Pakistani PM’s Riyadh Visit Close Cold Chapter?

Will New Pakistani PM’s Riyadh Visit Close Cold Chapter?

Wednesday 27 April 2022 ،
Kashmir and Indian scraping of Kashmir's autonomous status in 2019. Riyadh even facilitated Indian toehold gain in the Persian Gulf, sounding the alarm about end of Saudi-Pakistani strategic alliance.  Held back by the trade volume of $27 billion with New Delhi, the Saudi rulers declined t ...
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What’s Driving US Pessimism about Pakistani Nukes?

What’s Driving US Pessimism about Pakistani Nukes?

Saturday 22 October 2022 ،
Kashmir and tribal areas in the north, and this situation, from the American viewpoint, is potentially dangerous for a country with nuclear capabilities. Also, with Pakistan being an economically weak state and always in need of foreign aids, the maintenance of its nuclear warheads has always been ...

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Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies