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While every country has a right to self-defense, the United States’s interest lies in seeing caution prevail in the friction-filled South Asia, a senior White House official said in the face of heightened Pakistan-India tension. Dr....

How critically immigrants contribute to United States’ scientific and technological superiority over other countries was evident this week after it emerged that all six American recipients of 2016 Nobel Prizes announced so far are immigrants. The...

A barrage of attacks and counterattacks during the acrimonious and friction-filled town hall debate saw it ebb into an abrasive showdown soon after Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump attacked each other. The Democratic and Republican candidates barely...

Senator John McCain, a top Republican, has withdrawn his support of Donald Trump, saying the businessman’s demeaning comments about women make it impossible for him to back the candidate. McCain’s announcement is being seen as a...

South Asia needs a comprehensive approach for peace to prevail in the region, Pakistan said amid raging insurgency in Afghanistan to its west and turmoil in Indian controlled Kashmir to its east. “Peace cannot be compartmentalized...

With the election just a month away, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has reminded candidates of a key responsibility a U.S. leader must fulfill to keep America on top of the world – focus on advancing innovation....

The United States has made it clear that there is no question of declaring Pakistan as a ‘terrorist state’, and that Washington would continue to work with regional capitals as part of efforts to address the...

In a statement likely to boomerang on his campaign odds, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said that derogatory remarks he has made toward women were all for the sake of “entertainment.” Trump appeared to argue...

A top Pakistani senator, Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Wednesday outlined a range of reasons to South Asia watchers as being imperatives for New Delhi making peace with Pakistan through a fair settlement of Jammu and Kashmir dispute....

The United States will welcome 110,000 refugees in Fiscal Year 2017, as it works to address the gigantic refugee crisis facing the world. “This is a 57 percent increase over FY 2015 and is consistent with...