Yemen Debate Requires Understanding of Colonialist Role After the government informed a stormy joint session of parliament on 6 April of Saudi Arabia's request that Pakistan join a coalition fighting rebels in Yemen by contributing jets, navy ships and ground troops, parliamentary foes and allies alike demanded more details. Speakers from the main opposition PPP and PTI and the government-allied Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) labelled a prepared statement, read out by…

News: On the 6th of April, on the occasion of the Christian Easter, the Danish newspaper Politiken published an article written by a religious historian with specialty in Semitic philosophy, with the title: "If Jesus Never lived - Then Islam Would Most Likely Not Have Existed". Besides criticizing religions in general, he claims that Islam is a made-up hybrid between Christianity and Judaism. Comment: These types of claims have become…

Headlines • Power outage still being investigated: Energy Minister Yildiz • Turkey: Training for Syrian fighters expected in May • Prosecutor dies after Turkey hostage siege; 2 gunmen killed Details Power outage still being investigated: Energy Minister Yıldız Turkey's energy minister has ruled out electricity scarcity as a factor behind the country's massive power outage on Tuesday, as the investigation into its cause continues. "We have no clear data yet.…

News This week officials from Iran and six other countries, the US, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, agreed on a framework for ways to contain Iran's nuclear programme. It provides guidelines for a more lasting agreement, one that must conclude by June 30, 2015. However, the framework sees Iran surrender key pillars of its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions. Many Iranians may wonder why their…