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Despite the hue and cry over freedom of speech and the fourth estate, media has been restricted to do its job over the FIFA event in Qatar  Media is having a hard time in the FIFA World Cup in Qatar , as the mini but rich Middle eastern country is preventing media from reporting anything from there. Apparently, the international media has been banned from the international sporting event. None of the well-known media houses are going to be allowed under a ban to report anything from Qatar . This includes the well-known names as BBC, ITV under the so-called filming permits that are given away by the Qatari government. In focus will be things like the accommodation sites of migrant workers, apart from footage “near or within” government buildings, universities, places of worship and hospitals, along with recording on “any privately owned property”, even with the owner’s consent. All this is prohibited and could lead to imprisonment as well. Media will be allowed to access onl...

Erdogan has a way with influence,  and he has shown it once again as he has pushed for military support to be sent to Qatar on the latter’s behest Someone really coming close to Qatar is Turkey . Despite the former rich Middle Eastern country been in focus for human rights violations, Turkey has been going out of its way to build trade relations with Qatar. As the Middle Eastern nation gears up towards the forthcoming FIFA World Cup, 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked Parliament to authorize the dispatch of troops to Qatar to increase security during this winter’s World Cup in the Arab country. Qatar has now sealed borders and allowing only those visitors that have valid approvals to come into the country to view the World Cup. Turkey has offered help as Qatar has reportedly asked for security support. In response, Erdogan has been quick to send a letter to the Parliament, controlled by like-minded parties, to authorize this deployment. Erdogan who has be...

  It’s a shameful moment for Potus as a former leader in the US Central Command has been implicated in sharing classified information with Qatar. The now retired general was actually a lobbyist for the Qatar government and lied about his role . It has been Qatar’s modus operandi to influence key officials and academia to lobby for itself, for freebees, fam trips and monetary gains too. General John Allen now serves as the head of Brookings Institutions, one of Washington’s premium think tanks . His association came to light in 2017 when he was about to retire and yet to join the American think tank. Allen collaborated with Richard Olson, a former US ambassador to Pakistan, and Imaad Zuberi, a Pakistani-American venture capitalist and political fundraiser, who is serving a prison sentence for falsifying records to conceal his work as a foreign agent while lobbying US government officials, tax evasion and illegal campaign contributions. A spokesperson for Allen has justified hi...

It is strange but true that amidst the growing scare and unrest over the coronavirus , the Middle East oil and gas market is reportedly growing twice as fast as the global energy demand. This has been confirmed by the Boston Consulting Group ’s report (BCG) and International Gas Union (IGU). Both have suggested that the Middle East and Asia-Pacific have demonstrated the strongest growth in gas demand in the past ten years – growing at an average of 4.6% per year, double the rate of global primary energy demand. Due to limitations of regional infrastructure, many Middle Eastern countries are apt to use foreign supply chain for lucrative gains from the large gas reserves that they have.  So connecting gas reserves with the end-use markets at a low cost is a more hopeful picture to engage in infrastructure investment, and policy support. The report has estimated that by 2030, the Middle East would be capable of delivering approximately 8,500 billion cubic meters (bcm) ...

Qatar played up its game of prominence as it lets down NATO allies by hiding important intel Qatar allies have been contemplating extending  the embargo for a further period  Qatar has been hiding behind huge PR propaganda and good publicity. The small but rich Middle eastern nation has indeed kept its promise- presence felt without needing the backing of any other bigwig nation in the middle east.  Qatar was placed under an embargo by neighbouring nations because it was revealed that Qatar was sheltering and supporting various Islamic thought led jehadist military factions. Now, i n a stark revelation, one media house claims that Qatar’s intelligence had information about attacks at Gulf of Oman where Iran was instrumental. But Qatar never informed its allies.  A report exclusive to Fox News claims that Qatar had prior knowledge of the May 12 attack of two Saudi tankers, a Norwegian tanker and a UAE bunkering ship near the p...