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Pakistan-India border at night, Photo: ISS Expedition 28 crew (NASA Earth Observatory) via Wikimedia Commons US Centcom Chief General Joseph L. Votel Thursday told Capitol Hill that India’s policy to ‘diplomatically isolate’ Pakistan hurts prospects for...

Sun rises at the top of blue sky with mixture of clouds over Mangla Dam, Photo: Noer Kyani via Wikimedia Commons Pakistan, struggling to overcome power outages in the face of growing energy demands of its...

Tanzila Khan, Pakistani Women’s Rights Activist, Photo Courtesy UN Retrogressive legislation in the name of tradition, exploitation of poor and marginalized communities, discrimination, absence and denial of sexual and reproductive health facilities, lack of access to...

The Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development in Bonn, Germany. Photo: photothek/Ina Fassbender, Courtesy United Nations What is the name of the game? Playable Policy Conference. But what is the end goal? Development. The first...

Pakistan this week brought together 10 Central Asian neighbors in a trade grouping in a sign of its growing importance in the resource-rich region. Heads of state and government, and senior officials of 10-member Economic Cooperation...

Polar Bears near North Pole,  Photo by Chief Yeoman Alphonso Braggs, US-Navy via Wikimedia Commons A heatwave blowing over the Arctic pole in winter? Not a sci fi movie. Nor even an improbable dystonia of climatic...

Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Photo by Zainab Arain via Wikimedia Commons In one of the deadliest bombings since a sudden surge of terrorist attacks in Pakistan this week, around 50 people were killed and over...

A White Shark and other fish, Photo by Terry Goss via Wikimedia Commons Fishing on an unprecedented large scale needs to be restrained in order to produce healthy catch and bring additional billions to the developing...

The victory of President Donald Trump in the United States and rise of Conservatism elsewhere in the West have been described, among other things, a direct consequence of the failure of liberalism and the moderate leadership...

South Asia, NASA Map Pakistan is ringing alarm bells over what it calls New Delhi’s massive clandestine nuclear arsenal build-up as well its precarious nuclearization of the Indian ocean. Chief Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz has...