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Pakistan’s candid stance may help Afghan reconciliation
The admission by a top Pakistani official that his country sheltered the Afghan Taliban’s leadership is hardly a surprise for the intelligence community, but it does signal an end to Islamabad’s approach to discriminating between “good” and...Mar 4, 2016 753 0 -
GOP leaders, experts mount attacks on Trump; Frontrunner rejects critcism
A group of conservative foreign policy experts, former GOP presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney mounted attacks on unexpected frontrunner Donald Trump, whose campaign train appears to be unstoppable after Super Tuesday victories over Ted...Mar 4, 2016 771 0 -
Interfaith convention backs US taking in more Syrian refugees
An interfaith convention of Imams and Rabbis has expressed support for United States resettling more refugees from Syria, as five-year-old conflict in the Arab country continues to push vulnerable families into neighboring states already struggling to...Feb 26, 2016 1051 0 -
Pakistan opposes additions to permanent seats on UN Security Council
Pakistan on Monday vigorously opposed the addition of new permanent seats to the UN Security Council, with the country’s top diplomat saying that kind of move would only “serve the self-centered interests of a few.” Permanent Representative Ambassador Maleeha...Feb 22, 2016 1074 0 -
Falling Oil Prices Hurting U.S. Energy Companies : EIA
Lower oil prices in the international market caused a 35 percent dip in the U.S. mining and exploration investment in 2015, the lowest in at least nine decades, according to a latest report by the Energy...Feb 14, 2016 1051 0 -
Aleppo siege: 80% of 30,000 new Syrians refugees are women & children
The United Nations is reporting a new exodus of tens of thousand of civilians from Syria, with appalling proportions of women and children amidst encirclement of Aleppo and violence in other areas of the bleeding country,...Feb 9, 2016 1447 0 -
In Pakistan, it is potatonomic decision time
In Pakistan’s agricultural heartland, particularly between the central city of Lahore and Multan in the south, potato harvesting activity is picking up pace. In addition to mechanized digging of the earth to bring the potatoes out, thousands...Feb 4, 2016 1695 0 -
Iran in limelight with a thousand ramifications
In a development holding out wide-ranging implications, the United States and Europe Saturday lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for Teheran’s implementation of its end of last year’s nuclear deal that stops the oil-rich Persian nation...Jan 17, 2016 1096 0 -
In farewell State of the Union, Obama pitches optimism
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...Jan 13, 2016 1633 0 -
Syrian suffering – a blot on collective conscience
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...Jan 11, 2016 1544 0