Afghanistan: a Shakespearean tragedy on October 5, 2019On September 8, US President Trump withdrew from peace talks with the Taliban after the latter claimed responsibility of a suicide blast in Kabul on September 5 that left at least 12 persons, including a US soldier, dead. Hopes for peace in Afghanistan were again hit by uncertainty, despite the consistent nine rounds of talks […]
Cauldron of misfortune: the middle east on September 23, 2019Since the establishment of the state of Israel, the politics of the Middle East has been looked through the prism of religion. Sykes-Picot treaty, 1916, was an agreement between France and Britain in the initial years of WW-I. It divided the Middle East between the presumed victors of the Great War for Civilisation (ironic, indeed). […]