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Posts published in “Day: April 12, 2016

Asking for a neutral Iran: By Saleem Safi in The News, April 09, 2016

The writer works for Geo TV Iran is an ideological and religious state, and these dimensions are well reflected in its foreign policy outlook, which protects national interests with focus on religious and sectarian identity. Iran also holds a sectarian stance on international dealings. That could be seen in the March 14 statement by President Rouhani that Iran is determined to protect the Shia community though intervention in any part of the world.  National pride…

Owning Isis: By Sheikh Waqqas Akram in The News, April 09, 2016

The writer is former federal minister. Terror, they say, is a thinking man’s game. It is a macabre chess match between those perpetrating it and those fighting it. But even within those two sides, the players are constantly changing. These individual players, on both sides, either adapt or die. The guiding book for terrorist organisations is not some holy scripture but the works of Darwin: adapt or die. Darwinian natural selection seems to have made…