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When a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it causes a hurricane in another, is an old saying. Something similar seems to have happened with Zalmay Khalilzad’s visit to Kabul on March 11.

There appears to be a deliberate policy of the new Syrian rulers to target the Alawites anyone else perceived as posing a potential threat to their hold on power while remaining defeaningly silent about zionist land grab of Syrian territory.

Not given to interferring in the internal affairs of other countries, the Chinese use economic development as a means to gain access to resources in other countries. The latest manifestation of this policy is the revival of the Old Silk Road in Afghanistan.

The US under Donald Trump has declared that it is washing its hands of providing security to Europe. The divorce is inevitable. How messy it will be will depend on several factors including how irrationally Trump may act.

By inserting certain Islamic principles under non-Islamic systems, the non-thinking clergy class believe they are serving the cause of Islam. They are doing nothing of the sort except revealing their shallow thinking.

The Bani Saud have moved from hardcore Wahhabi-ism to vulgarity and a wholesale assault on Islamic practices. Their latest restrictions were to not allow iftars in mosques during Ramadan. Their previous restrictions have included limiting four loud-speakers at each mosque for adhan.

Brutal in nature, the military in Pakistan has now declared the establishment of the “Hard State” to suppress even more harshly the people who dare to question its exercise of unconstitutional powers. People in Balochistan and KP province are rising up against these policies.