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By DIAC images (Harmony Day celebration of diversity in Australia) via Wikimedia Commons These are chaotic times with democratic norms and diversity becoming big victims in the face of political stereotyping, xenophobic policies, exclusionary otherness, nationalism,...

Pakistani solciers in Swat, Photo Credit:  Al Jazeera English via Wikimedia Commons An infamous Tehreek-e-Taliban spokesman, who has surrendered himself toPakistani security forces, has detailed in a confessional statement how India backed the TTP terror attacks...

President Donald J. Trump, a billionaire real estate tycoon with a lifelong reputation for negotiating tough deals and making lots of money, left no doubt in the minds of those who heard his inaugural address on...

Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city Photo by Rahib ALi (Citizen)) , via Wikimedia Commons Lahore’s busiest Mall road remained the theater of protest rallies by politicians, farmers and teachers throughout the year 2016 and capital Islamabad’s...

It was February 6, a shining day with cool breeze, when I reached the lawns of a local hotel in Karachi – tidal sea and Palm trees giving a Miami-like picturesque setting at a time when...

In Pakistan, the provincial Punjab Assembly passed a landmark legislation last week, criminalizing all forms of violence against women. A few days later, the Council of Islamic Ideology, a federal advisory body, ruled the law as...

Torn along tribal lines and beset with political chaos, Libya is in the eye of ISIS storm that may further extend the arc of instability rattling the Middle East and North Africa since 2011 Arab Spring...

General Raheel Sharif  – who is credited with prosecuting Pakistan’s most effective fight yet against terror  – in North Waziristan and elsewhere along the Afghan border -– has announced that he would retire from the powerful army...

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...

Tunisian vendor Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation on December 17, 2010, was not just an individual’s final act of desperation but it also symbolized a generation’s collective scream of protest against a system that stifled democratic rights of...