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The Petrified ‘Sheikh'

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On Wednesday the 16th of September, Simon Tisdall and Anna Ridout released an appalling, ill-researched article in the UK's Guardian. In it, Sheikh Hasina is reported to have cautioned UK Prime Minister David Cameron over loose counter-extremism policy. The prime minister of Bangladesh seemed to be concerned over the growing number of 'British jihadis' that are attempting to stoke "an Islamist revival".
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Déjà vu with Pakistan's Economy

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Global index provider MSCI recently announced its plans to include Pakistan in its emerging markets index, due to its recent economic performance. MSCI announced it plans to upgrade Pakistan from frontier- to emerging-market status in 2016. News that Pakistan is being considered for inclusion in the MSCI emerging markets index was seized upon by a government desperate for international recognition of what it says are its achievements...
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Former CIA Director declares the end of Iraq and Syria

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Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA, declared that the Sykes Picot agreements through which Iraq and Syria arose were not divided in accordance to their factional and ethnic realities; and that what the region is witnessing in terms of violent events and catastrophic wars are heading in themselves towards a division that is in accordance to this reality which the European States should have originally paid attention to when…
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Iran’s Deal with the Devil

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In the week when the US normalised relations with two of its historic foes – Cuba and Iran, the global media gave wall-to-wall coverage to the deal between the US and Iran, describing it as a historic deal that potentially changes the global political landscape. The accord was announced on Tuesday 14 July by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the European Union's Policy Chief Federica Mogherini in a…
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The fall of Tadmur, Ramadi and the Border Crossings Impose ISIS organization as a Main Player

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It has been two weeks since the fall of Ramadi after attacks and retreats that lasted for months which increased in intensity in the last two weeks before its fall. In addition a few days ago Tadmur in Syria fell and after that Sirte in Libya. It seems that the fall of towns into the hands of the Tanzheem (ISIS) will continue in more than one country and all of…
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America Moves a Step Closer to Partitioning Iraq

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“The Kurds fight ferociously for Kurdistan. The Shiites have been fighting doggedly for their people. The Sunnis of the Islamic State are killing and dying for their cause. But nobody is willing to fight for Iraq. The problem really is not that Iraq’s army has collapsed. It’s that Iraq has collapsed…Iraq today no longer exists. In 2008, 80 percent of those polled said they were “Iraqi above all.” Today that…
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The Plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh

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Introduction: "Our situation here is like a prison. We are not free. I wish I was a bird, free from this condition." - A 35-year-old Nayapara Rohingya woman. "I cannot sleep soundly here; I am afraid they will come any moment and force me to go back. We have no money. My husband is not allowed to work. We are just like prisoners here." - A 30-year-old refugee woman in…
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