Dr. Asif Nawaz

Saudi Arabia & Fake News of C oup D'etat ~ Asif Nawaz With emergence of some fake news regarding a coup d'etat in Saudi Arabia, some people, especially the sheer opponents of Saudi Arabia and its policies, started cheering and celebrating the news. Whereas, the actual news was about an unidentified recreational drone which was hovering over a neighboring home to the Royal palace in Riyadh and subsequently it was shot down by the security forces with 30-second gunfire. This incident reflects insensitivity and mental object of the some of us who do not actually know what they wish for and what they are cheering upon. Though, Saudi Arabia recently is not good at few of its approaches and policies being adopted by its new Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to bring about a reform in Saudi society, culture, economy and foreign policy but an abrupt regime change can never be argued as a solution to the problem. Examples are with us that the sudden regime change in th...

West has a history of genocide, civil wars and colonialism which had brought a bad name to the Western culture an society, and downgraded them on every parameters of the humanity. The most parts of this era is historiographically known as Dark Ages. They, however, decidedly figured this out that they had been living in a culturally mediatized ignorance where religion had lots of interference in every spheres of human life, rather than it should have been a private affair. There is no doubt that it’s almost impossible to come out of this ignorance, whether you’re among the commoners or the elite. It’s like Plato’s story of the cave. You don’t know that you don’t know. The only thing which shows you way out of it is through knowledge and wisdom. The moment you start acquiring knowledge and wisdom, you begin to see the truth of every things including where you are having shortcomings. This leads to self-introspection which is considered the needful foundation for purification of ...