In another brutal US airstrike in Baraki Barak district of Logar Province, around eight soldiers were killed and five other wounded. According to district governor of Baraki Barak, at 6:00 am on Monday morning, two US helicopters attacked a checkpoint in Baraki Barak district of Logar province. He said the targeted outpost was "not a suspicious area as the Afghan flag was waving at the checkpoint when the Americans launched their attack.”

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 making the Sykes Picot agreement at that time.

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 joint statement in the Austrian capital. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called the deal a "win-win" solution to end "an unnecessary crisis and open new horizons

O Muslims of Pakistan! The monumental failure of the current leadership to provide us prosperity and security is now more obvious than ever before.
Regarding our wealth, the current leadership is destroying our economy, according to dictates from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), including those found in the Letter of Intent of 12 March 2015. The large sources of public or state revenue, such as the energy and mineral sectors or the large scale telecommunications, transport and construction, are being handed over to private companies through systematic privatization, depriving us of the means to secure our essential expenses, including health and education. The regime is then burdening us with ever increasing rates and types of taxation...