Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan, who was arrested
last month on corruption charges, has claimed in a wide-ranging
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States exerted diplomatic pressure to remove him from office last
year. Speaking to the US publication, Khan said he visited Russia
on the same day that Moscow launched its military operation in
Ukraine in February 2022 - and that while he didn't agree with the
motives behind the offensive, he refused calls to condemn the
action, so as to not jeopardize a trade agreement. The US "wanted
us, through the United Nations, to condemn Russia," said Khan, who
explained that his government had arranged an agreement to import
"cheap oil" and wheat from Moscow. "If we condemn them right now,
what about the impact it's going to have on our population?"
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China and Russia
account for 70% of new nuclear plants
Exports used as diplomatic card while Western nations fall
behind
NAOYUKI TOYAMA, Nikkei staff writerJune 11,
2023
TOKYO Russia and China are building up an outsized presence in
the field of nuclear power, with the countries accounting for
nearly 70% of reactors under construction or in planning
worldwide.
Notably, 33 of the reactors are being constructed or planned
outside each respective country. Russia has the largest number of
overseas reactors with 19, and despite growing opposition from
Europe and the U.S. following its invasion of Ukraine, it maintains
a strong global influence in nuclear power.
In April, Russian President Vladimir Putin participated remotely
in a ceremony to mark the arrival of the first fuel at the
under-construction Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey
Russias nuclear power diplomacy is extending to other countries
as well. In May, Rosatom began full-scale construction on Unit 3 of
the Dabaa nuclear plant in Egypt, the countrys first.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with Rosatom officials
this month to discuss the companys plans to build a new nuclear
power plant in the countrys south. Hungary opposes sanctions the
European Union has imposed on Rosatom.
Many developing countries take a positive view of Russia, Kacper
Szulecki of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs told
British scientific journal Nature Energy. Russias
acceptance of spent nuclear fuel is also attractive to emerging
countries.
Meanwhile, China is deepening its engagement with Pakistan..
China also plans to build a nuclear plant in Argentina
The U.S., Japan and Europe are hoping to catch up using small
modular reactors (SMRs), considered fourth-generation
technology..
Another issue is nuclear fuel. Uranium enrichment has become the
weak link for Western nations. Enrichment facilities are limited,
and Russia is the global leader for tha...
The government is gloating over its pyrrhic 'victory' and
rejoicing in downsizing the Imran Khan-led PTI. Banning politicians
and political parties will prove counterproductive. Promoting
democracy and free and fair elections may help the country do
better.
The Pashupati Seal was recovered from Mohenjo-Daro, Indus Valley
(now in Pakistan) and thought to date to around 2000 BCE, It shows
a seated Master-of-Animals figure, surrounded by 4 opposing
animals, which is consistent with Gurshtein's theory of an early
system of zodiacal dating using precession of the equinoxes. Many
other Master-of-Animals figures are known; see here. The problem
with this Master-of-Animals is that the zodiac doesn't conform to
one we know. At 2000 BCE the solsticial/equinoctial constellations
are; Taurus (spring), Capricornus (winter), Libra (autumn) and Leo
(summer). Thus, using the Greek zodiac we should have a bovine,
sea-goat, scales and feline, respectively. Of course, the scales
are not zoomorphic and the sea-goat is specific to lower
Mesopotamia. So we shouldn't expect to see them anyway. So this
leaves the bovine and feline symbols, which are consistent with the
Greek zodiac. But we also have an elephant and rhino. Can these
represent zodiacal...
Dozens of people are dead as torrential rains and flooding
inundated parts of northwestern Pakistan on Saturday. The
Provincial Disaster Management Authority said that 145 others were
injured in flooding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The districts
of Karak, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan and Lakki Marwat were especially
hard-hit, according to the English-language newspaper Dawn.
Twenty-eight people had been killed as of late Saturday, Pakistani
broadcaster Geo News reported.
Iran's Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei visits the Iranian centrifuges in Tehran on
11 June 2023 (Office of the Iranian Supreme
Leader/Wana/Reuters)
Iran's supreme
leader on Sunday said that reaching a deal with the West over
Tehran's nuclear activities was not an issue if the country's
nuclear infrastructure remained intact.
"There is nothing wrong with the agreement [with the West], but
the infrastructure of our nuclear industry should not be touched,"
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying by state media.
Khamenei, who has the last say on all state matters, added that
Tehran should continue working with the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, "under the framework of
safeguards".
Iran has long denied wanting to acquire nuclear weapons.
"Accusations about Tehran seeking nuclear weapons are a lie and
they know it. We do not want nuclear arms because of our religious
beliefs. Otherwise they [the West] would not have been able to stop
it," said Khamenei.
The supreme leader's comments come days after Middle East Eye
reported that Iran and the...
The Taliban appears to have sharply reduced opium cultivation in
Afghanistan, the world's largest producer of the illicit drug. In
April 2022, the militant group banned the cultivation, production,
and trafficking of all illicit narcotics. Annual opium cultivation
has dropped by as much as 80 percent compared to last year,
according to new research by David Mansfield, a leading expert on
Afghanistan's drugs trade who worked with Alcis, a British firm
specializing in satellite analysis. Mansfield said the Taliban had
"exceeded expectations and reduced poppy cultivation to levels not
seen since 2001," when the militant group was ousted from power by
the U.S.-led invasion. Around 80 percent of the opium produced in
Afghanistan comes from the southern province of Helmand. Mansfield
said satellite imagery appeared to show that in Helmand "poppy
cultivation has fallen from more than 120,000 hectares in 2022 to
less than 1,000 hectares in 2023."
Dilawar Syed speaks during a
Tech Stands Up rally outside city hall in Palo Alto, California, on
14 March 2017 (Associated Press)
The US Senate confirmed Dilawar Syed's nomination as deputy
administrator of the Small Business Administration, making him the
highest-ranking Muslim official in the US government.
The Senate voted 54-42 on Thursday, ending more than two years
of delays in Congress. President Joe Biden first nominated Syed in
2021 but everything stalled after Republicans did not appear for
votes. Biden renominated him again in 2023.
Senator Ben Cardin, who chairs the Senate Small Business and
Entrepreneurship Committee, said ahead of the vote: It is about
time we get this done.
Syed was born in Pakistan. He is a California-based entrepreneur
connected to software, health care, and artificial intelligence.
During the Obama administration, Syed played an
active role in promoting the State Departments global
entrepreneurship programme.
He also served on Obamas White House Commission on Asian
Americans and Pacific Islanders and chaired the White House
initiative on the commission's economic growth committee.
Syed was also previously affiliated with Emgage and served as an
Emgage Pac board member. Emgage describes itself as "the
first...
It may appear too premature to
talk about a post-electoral scenario in Pakistan when the debate
over the holding of elections and dates for say the Punjab Assembly
elections have yet to be decided. The Supreme Courts May 14
deadline has passed and may be forgotten, as a chastened Chief
Justice Atta Bandial is unlikely to make a hasty judgement on vote
dates, especially after the Election
Commission of Pakistan has questioned the SCs power over poll
dates. However, the National Assemblys mandate ends on August 16,
and elections must be held by mid-October unless another political
crisis arises. Elections for both the regional and national
assemblies will take place at the same time.
New players such as the Jahangir
Khan Tareen (JKT) faction and the acquisition of the PTI dissidents
by other parties may dictate the evolving situation. Yet, in all
confidence, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah predicts three
splinter groups emergence in the future. He seems to be calm on
Jahangir Tareens issue and expects that shouldnt be a threat to
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in Punjab, and is adamantly
boastful of their vote bank. His confidence comes from the fact
that Imran Khans Tehreek Insaaf (PTI) has been effectively
marginalised after the May 9 riots including charges faced due to
attacks on key military installations, and anticipating that the
PML N will have an advantage. The repeat instability in
Pakista...
Zaki Rasooli was a
professional mixed martial arts fighter in Afghanistan, before
fleeing the country after the Taliban captured Kabul (MEE/Ali
Latifi)
When Zaki Rasooli arrived in Abu Dhabi in October 2021, the
mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter thought hed only be in the
Tasameem resettlement camp for a few days before being airlifted to
the United
States to start a new life.
Instead, he spent 18 months in misery.
By the time he arrived in the Emirati capital, it had only been
two months since the Taliban had returned to power in Afghanistan,
but it was already evident to Rasooli and other evacuees that the
United
Arab Emirates had far surpassed the 5,000 Afghans the country
said it would house until they could be resettled in a third
country.
Less than a month later, Rasooli and the 3,000 other Afghans in
the camp lost even more hope when Washington suspended its daily
chartered flights from the UAE to the US on 7 November.
As time went on and answers became more scarce, Rasooli said the
Afghan evacuees began to feel suffocated in the
detention-like conditions inside the camp, which he was told
should have housed no more than 2,000 people.
