making sense of election mechanics and their outcome

The absence of Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai, the head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) Maulana Fazlur Rahman and top Awami National Party (ANP) leaders such as Asfandyar Wali Khan and Ghulam Ahmed Bilour will make the Parliament poorer..

tribal nationalism vs global unity

Throughout Europe right-wing and far right parties have been empowered: Prime-Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary (who has repeatedly called for an end to ‘liberal democracies’ in Europe); President Recep Erdoğan in Turkey who has attacked the media, centralized power and is pursuing a form of..

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The Islamic Republic is perhaps the world's leading drug executioner, with drug offenders accounting for the vast majority of the more than a thousand people it executed in 2015 (2016 numbers aren't in yet), but there are increasing signs the regime could change course. ..

brothersjudd blog: january 2019 archives

Meanwhile, national security adviser John Bolton, currently traveling in Israel and Turkey with a press pool in tow, has said any US withdrawal from Syria will be conditions-based, and won't occur until the so-called Islamic State in Syria (IS or ISIS) is fully defeated and unless Turkey guarantees..

islamic state still a threat

Islamic State Still a Threat . . Islamic State Still a Threat . . . People stand next to the scene of a car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, on December 22. ... Between December 22 and 25, Islamic State bombings struck Somalia, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan. ..

apologists for extremism in the west

Zuhdi Jasser's respected American- Islamic Forum for Democracy, in 2015, convened and helped launch Muslim Reform Movement coalition of over Western Muslim Leaders. Until then, all the world is divided in two al- Islam, and, made up of those. ..

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Meantime, other Syrian army units targeted the military positions and headquarters of Islamic Turkistani Party terrorist group in the surrounding areas of the villages of al-Najieh and Badama West of Jist al-Shoghour Western Idlib and near the demilitarized zone, destroying several targets and..

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