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A year after the Iranian youth introduced the Wall of Kindness, or Deewar-e-Meherbani – as it is known in Persian and Urdu languages –  the social welfare concept has transcended across the border into Pakistani cities....

The United Nations has warned of “shocking” violence and abuses in and around the city of Aleppo, as Russian and Syrian attacks against innocent civilian raised questions about the internationally endorsed Munich accord on “cessation of hostilities”...

More than 14 years after 9/11 attacks –that spotlighted U.S. relations with the Muslim world like never before – Muslims in the United States generally find little understanding about their faith, culture and traditions among fellow...

Democratic presidential candidates clashed in a high-stakes debate in Milwaukee to win over African Americans’ and Hispanic votes ahead of polls in southern states as Hillary Clinton hoped to re-set the nomination race after an expected...

Taliban groups may hold direct talks with the Afghan government by the end of February to find a way to bring an end to the bloody conflict that showed no signs of let up in recent...

South Asian agrarian economies have been growing at a rapid pace in the recent years. Their share in the world cereal harvests is also enviable- 60 percent of total rice and 50 percent of wheat. Fruit...

Five yeas ago Egyptians launched the Arab Spring uprising on January 25, when, inspired by the Tunisian demonstrations, men and women from almost all segments of the society raised their full throttle but mostly peaceful demand...

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...

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...

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...