Int’l Affairs

This is unbelievable! Through a surreptitious manoeuver, the world’s three most influential cricketing countries have managed to divide the world cricket on the basis of money-making clout and credentials.

OPEC was organized in the early 1960s by Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Venezuela with the primary goal of unifying the five countries’ oil export policies. The five countries certainly possessed that power when the cartel was initially formed, and while the cartel still produces about 40% of the world’s oil, OPEC’s dominance has declined over the years.

Turkey has a robust economy with sustained growth rate second to China only. As two functioning democracies, perspectives of the Turkey and Pakistan are marked by a common outlook and shared objectives.

Where are the world’s most dangerous places in 2014?

Asia is best known for its contribution to global economic growth. Yet for some time, security concerns seem to have clouded people’s thinking about Asia.

While Afghan elections and the drawdown of US/NATO forces is knocking at the door, carked Afghanistan is in quest for a political strategy of national cohesion, good neighbourly relations and comfortable ties with global powers.

The conventional wisdom in Pakistan is to treat the issues related to water resources as essentially technical, economic, engineering and irrigation related.

The government discourse on the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons has long been dominated by traditional approaches to national security.

In early December 2013, Israeli President Shimon Peres stated that he was willing to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The Israeli and Iranian media have not paid much attention to this statement so far, probably assuming that such a meeting is unlikely to happen and that the individuals lack the power to cut a deal.

Authoritarian populism, long associated with Latin American regimes, is generally considered a thing of the past in Europe. But it is quite misleading.