Pakistan firmly committed to stance on Palestine, Israel: Dar answers question on Abraham Accords

WASHINGTON: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Friday that Pakistan remained firmly committed to its longstanding position on Palestine and Gaza and that there could be no change in Islamabad’s stance towards Israel without the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

He said this during a press conference at Pakistan’s embassy in Washington after a meeting…

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US carries out 'self-defence' strikes in Iran despite ceasefire

US forces attacked missile sites in southern Iran and boats trying to lay mines on Monday, US Central Command said, imperiling a fragile ceasefire and casting new doubt on a deal to end the Middle East war.

The strikes came as top Iranian negotiators arrived in Doha for the latest round of talks to end the months-long conflict, and as the Israeli military stepped up hostilities with Iran-backed…

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Trump demands widespread sign-up to Abraham Accords as part of Iran peace deal

US President Donald Trump on Monday seemingly predicated an emerging Iran peace deal on Muslim-majority nations across the Middle East and beyond normalising relations with Israel.

This brand new demand came on the heels of a potential memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the US and Iran to end the war on all fronts and potentially lift oil waivers.

It is worth noting that the nations…

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Ground Troops in Iran: An Idiotic Idea for an Idiotic War

Donald Trump is weighing whether to make the Iran War even more of a disaster by sending in ground troops. It’s a terrible idea that almost everyone agrees won’t achieve anything but kill US troops and draw the United States deeper into war.


Sending ground troops to Iran is the first step toward exactly the kind of quagmire every US president since George W. Bush has tried to avoid.…

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Top Trump Official Asks What the Big Deal Is if ICE Goes to the Polls

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche advocated for sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling places, in the clearest proof yet that the Trump administration plans to use the overfunded and undertrained police force to suppress the vote.

Blanche made the comments in a speech at the popular conservative conference CPAC on Thursday. “Why is there objection to sending ICE…

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The Reason Trump Isn’t as Perturbed by Rising Oil Prices as You Are

Many of us who remember the 1970s energy crisis are experiencing right now a strong sense of _déjà vu_. I acquired my California driver’s license in January of 1974, three months after the Arab petrostates imposed an oil embargo against the United States for supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War. At its peak, the price of gas at the pump rose about 40 percent to today’s after-inflation…

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