Huma Ijaz Zaman

Jun 10, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Tariq Aqil |Meezan Zahra Khwaja |Huma Ijaz Zaman |Ahmad Faruqui

The ongoing civil war in Yemen has dragged on for over ten years now and the Ansar Allah forces, commonly known as Houthis, are one of the two main factions in this conflict. The Houthis are in firm control of the western part of the country, including the capital city Sana. The Houthis are part of the so-called “Axis of Resistance,” a network of Iran-aligned militant groups around the Middle East.

May 13, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Syed Amir |Ahmad Faruqui |Huma Ijaz Zaman |Patryk Tadeusz

Rejecting all pleadings from President Biden and ignoring the pleas of the United Nations and International Criminal Court, as of this writing, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is poised to launch a large-scale invasion of Rafah, where 1.3 million desperate Palestinians are sheltering. They are being told to leave, but there is nowhere to go; starvation, disease, and homelessness have been stalking them for the past six months.

May 6, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Ahmad Faruqui |Huma Ijaz Zaman |Ejaz Haider |Bilal Hyder Simair

President Joe Biden broke his silence on the pro-Palestinian protests that are now underway at more than 122 universities. While conceding that dissent was essential for democracy to function, he reprimanded the protestors for engaging in lawless acts. Then came the clincher: he was not going to change his approach to Israel’s invasion of Gaza. Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, was not going to be outdone by a Democratic president.

May 3, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Huma Ijaz Zaman |Junaid Jahangir |Patryk Tadeusz |Beelam Ramzan

Large segments of the population of the West have empathised with Palestinian cause while it is the governments/establishments who have shown no apathy. The question is whether this is true democracy, sham democracy or autocracy. Palestine has exposed many countries to question and introspect their own human rights and democratic norms.

Apr 21, 2023 | thefridaytimes.com | Huma Ijaz Zaman

The recent case of a Chinese engineer at The Dasu Hydropower in North Western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province imprisoned for blasphemy has again presented Pakistan in a negative manner and is evidence of blatant intolerance booming in Pakistani society, once heard of only in the most regressive places like Afghanistan.