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Obama’s Reluctance and Putin’s Plan
Sep 18, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 6
Russian plan to put Syria’s chemical arms under international supervision has baffled US President Obama who is now saying that initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical...
Who will suffer consequences of Military Option?
Aug 26, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 4
After serious allegations of using large-scale chemicals weapons on civilians in Syria by Syrian forces, the US and its allies are thinking over using military option in Syria to uproot Bashar...
Why Dream of Eurasian Union?
Jul 29, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 1
Eurasian Union (EAU), is without a doubt the dream of Russian President Vladimir Putin who proposed forming a Eurasian Union with Kazakhstan and Belarus and in November 2011, the presidents of these...
The Tale of Doha Talks
Jul 04, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Debate Desk, Featured 3
Interestingly, the USA has been expressing its willingness to talk with Afghan Taliban leadership for a long time, in order to reach to a settlement about the new set-up in Afghanistan after US-led...
Hassan Rowhani, The New President of Iran
Jun 18, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 5
Hassan Rowhani, 64, a moderate, was declared the outright winner with 50.68 percent of votes cast in Iran’s Presidential polls held on June 14. He singularly won against the five conservative...
Iran’s Presidential Race Begins
Jun 03, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 6
Iran’s Interior Ministry has issued the Approved Official List of eight Candidates for upcoming Presidential Election to be held on June 14. Sitting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is out of race...
Devastation Hits Syria Hard
May 29, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 1
The civil war in Syria has turned the country into a land of “Devastation and Destruction” where hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives without knowing their mistake or...
Iran’s Nuclear Program
May 16, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 2
Iran’s Nuclear Program is one of the most sensitive and critical issues in the politics of Middle East that has various geo-political dimensions that generate some other aspects to talk about how a...
What Bigger Hoax than Love?
Apr 27, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Featured, Lifestyle 1
What bigger hoax than Love? This peculiar question was asked by a fellow few days ago. Honestly, for a moment, I was confused and had no words to answer it as in no way Love could have any...
Nuclear Threat in Korean Peninsula
Apr 15, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 10
North Korea has recently threatened USA and its ally South Korea with nuclear war. This shrill threat has once again drawn world’s attention towards Korean Peninsula and has reminded the world that...
How Territorial Disputes Roil Peace in Asia?
Apr 09, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 4
Where don’t we find territorial disputes around the world? However, the nature of some disputes is so critical and alarming that they should be considered as a constant threat to World peace. It is...
Is it a Major Shift in Foreign Policy?
Mar 07, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 32
Pak-Iran Gas pipeline project is about to launch on March 11 this year and if everything goes well, it will be completed within 15 months. In 2010 Pakistan and Iran agreed that Tehran would supply...
Ooh La La Ooh La La
Feb 13, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Featured, Limelight 6
Let me start with a question to the readers. How many of you have experienced a situation where a person looks into a state of sudden fear that turns into embarrassment after a short span of time? Of...
Future Impossible Tense
Jan 05, 2013 Syed Shahzad Alam Featured, Limelight 2
I rate this cartoon as the best of 2012 that I watched in Social Media. A corruption free Pakistan is the dream of every Pakistani but when we talk about its end then many questions rouse in this...
Power Line Communication
Dec 31, 2012 Syed Shahzad Alam Featured, Tech Track 0
The revolution of digital communication is changing its dimension and using new means of data transmission. Popularity of Wireless and WI-FI devices are on full swing but it does not replace...
What is Behind Smoke Screen?
Nov 22, 2012 Syed Shahzad Alam Featured, Sports Sprit 2
My point is that Pakistan’s representation in Big Bash T20 Tournament was already limited to only three players and due to PCB inconsistent and inapprehensible policies two key players of Pakistani...
New Challenges of Social Media
Nov 05, 2012 Syed Shahzad Alam Featured, Tech Track 0
The emergence of some recent incidents in Middle East and South Asia and their analysis in the context of the wide-spread use of Social Media Websites and overwhelming response from internet-users...
Mental Distress in Pregnancy
Oct 23, 2012 Syed Shahzad Alam Featured, Health Talk 2
Reproductive health is quite difficult to talk about in a conservative society where it’s considered as an extremely private affair of a couple but any of complexities and consequences are to be...
Is Libya a Safe Haven of Terrorists Now?
Oct 15, 2012 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 3
During a severe protest against anti-Islam Movie, a provoked mob attacked on the US mission in Benghazi, exactly on the day of September 11, an anniversary day of 9/11, in which four Americans,...
Blue Casting – Advertisement on Mobile Phones
Oct 08, 2012 Syed Shahzad Alam Featured, Tech Track 2
Gone are the days when we only had a single TV channel and we were forced to watch the advertisements during short break of our favorite TV Show. But Cable TV now has allowed us a liberty to switch...
Can Twitter Win Votes for Obama?
Sep 25, 2012 Syed Shahzad Alam Around the World, Featured 2
We have seen the vibrant role of Social Media in recent Arab Spring where youth activists used it as a way of spreading their messages quickly and somehow secretly to a large number of audiences....
Let’s play LA MIGRA
Sep 06, 2012 Syed Shahzad Alam Featured, Limelight 1
Illegal immigration is a global issue and its shape differs from region to region. “Let’s Play LA MIGRA” written by Pat Mora is written in the backdrop of Mexico-USA border issue, and...