Can Pakistan become a Superpower would be an odd question to ask. It would be odd because many around the world do not view Pakistan as having any potential. Pakistan has zero influence around the world today, its rulers are pawns for the global powers and Pakistan cannot even feed its own population let alone project influence abroad.
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On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets in Washington and cities across the globe to take a stance against gun violence. (New York Times, March 24)
The story unfolding over the past two weeks shows no sign of ending soon, as the US Federal Electoral Commission and the British Electoral Commission both open investigations into recently alleged breaches of electoral law. At the centre of the story are the activities of a British digital services company Cambridge Analytica, along with an unfolding network of linked companies,
Setting fire to the Kuja Sinan mosque in the Rhinkendorf (Reinickendorf) district of Berlin on 10/03/2018 is one of a series of ongoing attacks on Islamic facilities in Germany, which in the past two months alone have amounted to 44 attacks. The firm response by politics and the media, which we are used to when it comes to material work for a political purpose, was absent this time. The general and loose phrases that came out of the mouths of the politicians commenting on the event made the Muslim community concerned about an uncertain future and wondered: Is the German state really keen to preserve the lives and souls of its Muslim citizens?
“Among the believers there are men who have been true to the contract they made with Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their pact by death and some are still waiting to do so, not having changed in any way at all” [33:23]
Al-Raya Newspaper: Prominent Headlines of Issue 175
Since February 18th, the brutal forces of the Syrian regime supported by the Russian air force has continued its fierce attack on eastern Ghouta, after dividing it into three combat zones. As a result, it managed to control more than 80 percent of the area adjacent to the capital, Damascus, which since 2012 has been the largest and most prominent stronghold of the opposition factions.
In a report published by Al-Jazeera English Channel, UN officials condemned the continued arbitrary detention of the children of the Holy Land (Palestine) by the Jewish entity, saying that "the deprivation of liberty of these children is institutionalised, systematic, and widespread".
