These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this episode of On the News Line:
President Rouhani visits Pakistan
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani recently traveled to Pakistan in his first visit to Iran’s southeastern neighbor as president. Rouhani’s visit to Islamabad followed the trip to Tehran by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as well as the country’s Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif in January. The visits, which came immediately after the two jointly met top Saudi officials in Riyadh, triggered speculations that Pakistan is trying to mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
War on Yemen, one year on
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the Saudi war has set Yemen back decades. One year into the war, Yemen is in ruins. A tally puts the number of fatalities at over 9,000. The Saudi onslaught has also displaced millions of Yemenis, mostly internally as the displaced have nowhere to go.
Obama’s visit to Argentina
US President Barack Obama has visited Argentina. But the trip has proved to be a controversial one. And it’s all about the bitter memories of Argentines of a US-backed military coup that changed the lives of thousands of people in the Latin American nation. 1976 is still a bitter and sad year for many Argentines. That’s when a military coup was orchestrated there. The human cost? Thousands of Argentines who went missing during the six years of harsh military rule by a group of military rulers.