Another unnecessary war, which has the potential to trigger a wider conflict and violence across multiple regions, now enters its fifth week of deaths, destruction, and divisions. The hope of a ceasefire triggered by Pakistan’s efforts is fading. The two sides have intensified their attacks on each other’s critical installations to cause maximum damage before […]
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The Price of Wars and Conflicts (Part I)
The realists gave me a hard time when I defined WAR as Waste of Available Resources. They reminded me of Chanakya Kautilya, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz, and many other academics and practitioners who viewed war as an instrument of policy. Whereas I insisted on Sun Tzu’s precepts that one should aim to win the […]
Marred by conflicts, residents feel the pinch in Ramadan
Shoppers throng Tripoli’s Souk Al-Hout market but their mood is somber as Libya’s capital is again hit by violence and prices have shot up ahead of the holy month of Ramadan. “Our country is famous for its dates,” a staple which Muslims eat first to break the Ramadan dawn-to-dusk fast, says shopkeeper Abdallah Al-Chaibi. “But […]
Minor conflicts within party ranks are a normal phenomenon: Fawad Ch
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said that minor conflicts within the ranks of the party are a normal phenomenon. The federal minister in a press conference said that Prime Minister Imran Khan is our supreme leader and his decisions are decisive. “Nobody should remain in fallacy that a crisis […]