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Nankana Sahib, the spiritual center of Sikhism. Photo: Jeev/Wikipedia The Sikh community, spread around the globe, has always had the highest association with the place of their spiritual origin in Pakistan’s Nankana Sahib district in Punjab...

A Palestinian girl inside her family’s partially destroyed home, looks at the destruction outside, in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City. Photo: UNICEF On April 11, I had the privilege of speaking in Temple Emanuel, a...

Photo: Policy Exchange/Wikimedia Prime Minister Theresa May has picked Sajid Javid, a Pakistani origin Briton, as the Home Secretary after his predecessor Ms. Amber Rudd resigned following the Windrush immigration scandal. Javid, a former Communities Secretary,...

A PIA Boeing plane, Photo: Robert Underwood/ Wikipedia With the land and maritime disputes in the South and the East China Sea, China-India disputes on the sovereignty over two separated pieces of territories, Aksai Chin in Jammu...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for an independent and transparent investigation into clashes at the Gaza fence on Friday between Palestinians participating in the ‘Great Return March’ and Israeli security forces which resulted in at least...

Cybersecurity ITU Image The United Nations says as the Internet user growth increases with growing online commerce of goods and services, protection of privacy must be a top priority. The UN agency dealing with the economics...

Photo: Screenshot/JS Bank YouTube Pakistan will appoint Ali Jehangir Siddiqui as the country’s new ambassador to the United States as Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi approved nomination of the prominent businessman for the key posting, reports citing...

Photo: ITU Singapore enjoys one of the lowest crime rates in the world. While most types of crimes are decreasing, cyber crimes in Singapore nearly doubled in proportion between 2014 and last year, rising from 7.9%...

What makes the process a never-ending election season During his campaign for the White House Donald Trump said many times that he intended to turn the United States around.  His predecessors and Washington politicians had allowed...

Evening is falling here. I am sitting in a hotel room, in front of the window, on the 18th floor. This hotel is majestically built and located by the Red Sea. I am looking at the...