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Image Credit: “Countdown Entertainment, LLC” In a befitting move, organizers of the New Year festivities at New York City’s Times Square decided to dedicate the ball drop to Press freedom and contributions of journalists.   The...

Pakistan delivered a stinging rebuke to Indian policy of repression in the disputed Kashmir region under its control with foreign minister Shah Mahmoud Qureshi saying New Delhi prefers politics over peace. The Pakistani diplomat, speaking in...

Marching in New York City for gender equality. Photo: UN Women/J Carrier A new United Nations report is warning that women’s rights are under threat from a “backlash” of conservatism and fundamentalism around the world. “Alarming...

Photo: ILO/M. Crozet Bonded child laborer, Pakistan In a polarized polity, elections can splinter the nation, sharpen factionalism, and even erode foundations of nationhood. The December 1970 elections were a catalyst to the breakup of united Pakistan.  The...

File photo: Donald Trump and Xi Jinping leading talks at G-7 summit in July 2017, Credit: The White House/ Wikimedia Commons China is offering massive trade concessions to the United States worth billions of dollars under...

Mike Pompeo, Photo Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons President Donald Trump has decided to replace Rex Tillerson as America’s top diplomat with CIA director Mike Pompeo and elevate senior intelligence official Gina Haspel as leader of the Central...

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: Chief Yeoman Alphonso Braggs, US-Navy/Wikimedia Commons With several days of cloudy skies, snowfall and rains this winter may have given the impression that traditionally cool winters after all are not a thing of the past....

Pakistan’s embassy in Washington D.C. has launched a new website as part of the public diplomacy efforts and improve access to information through a variety of new links. Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said at the inaugural...

US, Pakistani pin flags Photo: http://www.crossed-flag-pins.com Vice President Mike Pence has said Pakistan is responding to the U.S. leadership on the international stage with renewed cooperation in the fight against terror. “–as was evidenced in the...