Steering the present for a better future
Two recent international events are highly consequential and should serve as an eye opener especially for Pakistan
The writer is a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army and a former federal secretary. He has also served as chairman of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories Board
Two recent international events are highly consequential and should serve as an eye opener especially for Pakistan and Turkey and the Muslim world at large.
The resolution passed unanimously by 30 mostly Western countries on the alleged genocide committed in Armenia by the Ottoman empire, 106 years ago.
Coming at this time, experts are of the view that it is essentially a politically-motivated step and has been the result of the influence that the Armenians and white Christians command in American politics. What was surprising was that recent mega human rights violations and democracy derailment in Myanmar, Kashmir, Palestine, Rwanda, Nagorno-Karabakh and many other places were ignored. This is not to say that atrocities and wrongdoings may not have occurred in Armenia, but the magnitude of it and the timing to revive its memories gives rise to several questions.