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As Joe Biden, widely seen as the candidate closest to Democratic establishment’s idea for moderation, tumbles in early primaries, Senator Bernie Sanders has emerged as the top contender after strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire....

Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders, while backing Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal’s criticism of New Delhi’s policies, has termed Indian crackdown on Kashmiris and Muslims as unacceptable. Senator Sanders was reacting to Indian foreign minister’s cancellation of a...

During the last five years, immigrants arriving in the United States have come with higher percentage of college education and English proficiency than previous generations who moved to the United States. Around half of the recently...

During an unprecedented hearing on the Capitol Hill, Kashmiri-Americans issued a stinging rebuke to Indian atrocities while U.S. lawmakers called for sending independent observes into Kashmir to ascertain facts in amid ongoing restrictions on freedoms in...

If a conflict between India and Pakistan – currently locked in a tense standoff over the disputed Kashmir region – turns nuclear, it would not only kill millions of people but also spark a global climate...

Can you debate with a dictator in public on his home turf? Imagine someone challenging Saddam Hussein or Gaddafi without becoming breakfast for the pet crocodiles the next morning. The debater would have to have their...

In a society beset with gross socioeconomic inequalities, it might sound incredible but an organization in Pakistan is working effectively to pull the downtrodden out of poverty without putting a premium on its microfinance loans. Or,...

Pakistan’s National University of Science and Technology Campus, Credit: Knowfahad /Wikimedia Commons When rideshare giant Uber acquired Careem for $3.1billion in March, it marked a celebration of a Pakistani co-founder Mudassir Sheikha and his colleague’s entrepreneurship...

Image: Screenshot/ABC San Diego KGTV The attacker, who killed a woman and injured three others on the last day of Passover at a southern California synagogue, posted messages against Jews. A post also claimed setting a...

Afghanistan was a different place in 1960s and early 1970s, when I worked there. It was a progressive place, far different than the world has seen in the last 40 years. One day, I had a...