Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi

Much has been reported in both the local and international Media about the covert and overt diplomatic interaction between the Israeli-Saudi officials to normalize the realtions—paving the way for a genuine concern for Pakistan. Needless to say, despite having had a history of their proverbial relations, the two brotherly Islamic countries- Pakistan and Saudi Arabia […]

On September 15, Israel and the Gulf states—Bahrain and the UAE officially agreed to begin normalizing relations in a deal brokered by the US President Donald Trump. “We have conducted quiet diplomacy and sent very public signals to help shift the dynamics and promote the possible,” Yousef Otaiba, The Emirati Envoy to the US wrote. […]

It is reliably learnt that in 2015, the Democratic Obama administration was candidly considering to strike a civil nuclear energy deal like the one that the US had dealt with India in 2005. But why such a deal was not concluded simply because it did not really cater to our concerns and objectives. In this […]

In July, President Erdogan described that month’s return of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, a sixth century Orthodox-church-turned-mosque-turned-museum, to the status of a Muslim house of worship as paving the way for the “liberation” of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest site. Rather than seeking to regain lost Ottoman territory, Mr. Erdogan is staking a claim […]

Generally speaking, the US presidential race is an event of great political extravaganza both domestically and internationally. A political race for the US presidency via the two- party system is waged between the Republicans’ and the Democrats’ nominee. The Democrats are the liberal political party and their candidate is Joe Biden, who has had the […]

The case in point regarding the Indian-North Korean illicit nuclear connection glaringly exposes that India violated the commitments adhered in the NSG waiver given to India.The NSG passed a waiver of restrictions on nuclear commerce with India in September 2008 despite India’s failure to meet either of these nonproliferation norms. The NSG exempted India from […]

Consecutively without any ambiguity, the three latest UNSC reports, concluded by the UN panel of experts(PoE) respectively– August 28 ,2020 (S/2020/840 )March 2, 2020,( /S/2020/151) and the midterm report, August 30, 2019,( S/2019/691)– formally list alleged sanctions violations committed by North Korea and other states vis-à-vis the North Korean nuclear programme. In paragraph 2 of […]

An Indian court in Lucknow on September 30, has acquitted top leaders of the governing BJP of any wrongdoing in the destruction by Hindu mobs of a historic mosque in 1992.Former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, and BJP leaders MM Joshi and Uma Bharti, had denied charges of inciting extremists to demolish the 16th Century […]

Currently, the US Department of Treasury’s watchdog (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN), has released a revelatory report that exposed India’s financial malversation and illegalities as at least 44 Indian banks are involved in money laundering of $1.53 billion through 3,201 suspicious transactions.The said report unravels the money laundering and facilitation to terrorists in India after […]

For all of these obvious reasons, a renewed global multilateralism without the UN’s role isn’t even conceivable. The COVID-19 crisis comes as a caveat that it should be sufficient to usher a new UN moment in the first half of 2021. The means and methods the UN often implies a level of coherence and bureaucratic […]