by Iqbal Jassat | Sep 9, 2019 | Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
Why is it that war criminals in their capacity as heads of states who despite being consistently in breach of global conventions governing human rights, are treated as royalty? What sets them apart from common criminals by having red carpets rolled out and celebrated...
by Mustafa B Mheta | Sep 6, 2019 | Africa, Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
Literature on United Nations (UN) peacekeeping has grown immensely since the end of the cold war, and a plethora of studies, have examined the prospect of peacekeeping with respect to its failures and successes. These upsurges suggest that the nature of conflicts...
by Mustafa B Mheta | Aug 22, 2019 | Africa, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
The United Nations (UN) formed in 1945, aimed at promoting global peace and security. However, rising interests and different ideologies have led to the emergence of different conflicts. In return, this has called for greater UN roles in restoring stability in...
by Iqbal Jassat | Aug 19, 2019 | Kashmir, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
The irony of Narendra Modi’s utterly reckless move on Kashmir is that it has thrust the plight of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir from oblivion to full glare of global media. That the United Nations Security Council met for the first time in fifty years to...
by MRN | Aug 14, 2019 | Kashmir, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
On a road in Srinagar’s Indian-controlled Kashmir, Fayaz Ahmad Zargar manoeuvres through roadblocks and wires laid by the Indian armed forces to restrict civilian movement. Despite the newly implemented siege that the area is reeling from, Zargar has taken his chances...
by Iqbal Jassat | Aug 8, 2019 | Kashmir, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
All it took was a blink of an eye to realize that India’s right-wing government outmanoeuvred old-style colonialism by repackaging it as “democracy in action”. Whether described as a double takeover or colonialism squared, the fact is that the...
