Despite gruesome reports of the death of Saudi national Jamal Khashoggi, the Kingdom’s Future Investment Initiative conference, dubbed, “Davos in the desert,” still drew many CEOs and investors.
Pakistani PM Imran Khan took advantage of the vacuum of support left in the international community and scooped up a lucrative finance deal for his country.
The US — Indian negotiations held in New Delhi on September 6 this year with the participation of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Defence (in the so-called 2+2 format) represent one of the most significant events of late in the region of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop
— Economist Herbert Stein
The Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif’s visit to Islamabad in late August 2018 was the first meeting conducted by the new Pakistani leadership headed by the Prime Minister Imran Khan and high-ranking foreign guests. The agreements reached confirmed the trend towards consolidating the forces in the region.
By Martin SIEFF | Strategic Culture Foundation | 14.09.2018 CENTO – the Central Treaty Organization launched by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in 1958 is totally forgotten now. Even most regional experts on the Middle East and South Asia remember nothing about it. But it had a surprisingly […]
Speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah on August 14, 2018, for the celebration of the twelfth anniversary of the 2006 victory. Transcript: The 2006 War and ISIS, two US Projects for Israel’s Sake I seek refuge in God against the stoned devil. In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Praise be […]
By Arkady SAVITSKY | Strategic Culture Foundation | 05.09.2018 The US Defense Department has made a final decision to cancel $300 million (the Coalition Support Funds) in aid to Pakistan. The official reason is Islamabad’s failure to take decisive action against the militants who are waging war in Afghanistan: the Haqqani network and the Afghan Taliban. The move […]
A few days ago, Reuter reported that Switzerland’s second largest bank, Crédit Suisse, has ‘frozen‘ about 5 billion Swiss francs of Russian money, or about the same in US-dollars, for fear of falling out of favors with Washington – and being ‘sanctioned’ in one way or another.
