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The impact of information technologies on everyday human activity has been so sweeping that for majority of populations in the digitally connected world life is viewed in two broad ways: online and offline. Increasingly, productivity, GDP...

In his farewell State of the Union address to Congress, President Barack Obama delivered a high-pitched message of American optimism to meet new challenges, as he rejected the alarmist approach to national and international issues, and...

India and Pakistan again face a familiar crossroads situation – a militant attack threatening to roll back peace hopes between the two nuclear-armed countries. The January 2 Pathankot airbase attack – which India alleges has links to...

The United States, China, Pakistan and Afghanistan explored prospects for a negotiated end to the bloody Afghan conflict, as four nations discussed ways to relaunch talks between the Afghan Taliban and Kabul. Washington believes the reconciliation...

The heartrending images of skeleton-thin children starving to death in the besieged town of Madaya on Thursday sent another chilling reminder to the world of the unspeakable horrors Syrians have gone through in the last five...

The United States added 292,000 jobs in December in a sign of gradual growth in the world’s largest economy but a global slump in commodity and oil prices continued to weigh on the mining industry with...

With a middle class of around 40 million, the demand for high-end products has been on the increase for quite sometime in Pakistan. An import of one million smart phones every month and increased demand for...

Unable to sketch alternative options over sanctions, world powers mull new punitive measures after another nuclear test by North Korea, which says it has detonated even a deadlier device – hydrogen bomb. It may take many...

The unfolding crisis between Saudi Arabia and Iran – over execution of a prominent Saudi Shiite cleric –threatens to be yet another disconnect in the way of resolution to multiple Middle Eastern conflicts including deadly Syrian civil...

Nearly two years ago, suffering of democracy-seeking people in the Middle East was a major reason behind my decision to accept the challenging role of a Sufi figure in Professor Akbar Ahmed’s play Noor, staged at...