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Author and journalist.
Author of
Islamic Pakistan: Illusions & Reality;
Islam in the Post-Cold War Era;
Islam & Modernism;
Islam & Muslims in the Post-9/11 America.
American Muslims in Politics.
Islam in the 21st Century: Challanges, conspiracies & Chaos
Muslim Word in the New Global Order
Currently working as free lance journalist.
Executive Editor of American Muslim Perspective: www.amperspective.com
(1 comments) Sunday, July 28, 2019 Who is Lying? Uproar in India over Trump's Kashmir Mediation OfferSHARE
President Donald Trump, who was singing a different tune about Pakistan two years ago, now realizes his plans for Iran and Afghanistan require stability on the Washington-Islamabad axis, writes The Wire Editor Siddharth Varadarajan. "This is precisely the context of Imran Khan's visit to the White House, and Trump's remarks on mediation with India are clearly a product of this process," he argues.
Friday, March 1, 2019 US Urges 'Calm' While Stoking India-Pakistan ConflictSHARE
International powers this week anxiously urged India and Pakistan to avoid further escalation of military confrontation. Given the two nations have gone to war on three occasions during the past seven decades and are both nuclear armed, the international concern is palpable.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Gaza Onslaught 'Joint Arab-Israeli War against Palestinians'SHARE
CNN Quoted seasoned Middle East analyst, Ali Younes, who considered the war in Gaza as “unprecedented in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict."
"Most Arab states are actively supporting Israel against the Palestinians -- and not even shy about it or doing it discreetly."
It's a "joint Arab-Israeli war consisting of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia against other Arabs -- the Palestinians as represented by Hamas,†Younes said.
One of the outcomes of the fighting will likely be "the end of the old Arab alliance system that has, even nominally, supported the Palestinians and their goal of establishing a Palestinian state," Younes added.
"It's no longer the Muslims against the Jews. Now it's the extremists -- the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, and their backers Iran, Qatar and Turkey -- against Israel and the more moderate Muslims including Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia."