Radio Free Asia reported on 30th of December 2013 about a horrific story of China's authorities forcing four Uyghur women in the region of Xinjiang, a Muslim populated province to abort their babies for violating the one-child policy implemented in China since the 1970s. One of the women was nine months into her pregnancy. They were injected with unspecified abortion-inducing drugs to induce miscarriage. Memettursun Kawul, the depressed husband of…

Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatahu Introduction: International Politics The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe in the 19th century intensified the imperial competition between European powers led by France and Britain. Spain, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, and later on Italy and Germany all competed for a share of the international bounty. Yet, despite their internal bickering: they, along with Russia, all shared a unanimous hatred against the Muslim Ummah and the…

Lately, several notable Pakistani public figures have expressed their increased optimism about the Pakistani economy and its future. On November 10, 2013 Federal Minister for Finance, Muhammad Ishaq Dar expressed his desire to see Pakistan become the 11th biggest economy in the world. According to the World Bank statistics in 2012, Pakistan presently holds 43rd position with a GDP of $231billion, whilst Canada is in the 11th spot with a…

News: The fallout from the Westgate Mall attack has been immense with some situations bordering on the comical. Straight from the intelligence briefings before the attack to the actual handling of the siege, it has been a case of pure incompetence by a so-called efficient security apparatus in cahoots with the political mandarins that run it. As reported by the Nation Newspaper of 28th September 2013, counter-terrorism reports seen by…