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Earlier this month, I witnessed screening of Journey into Europe, a new documentary produced by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, at an event hosted by the Pakistani Embassy....

While counterterrorism experts will work round the clock to analyze reasons and flaws that allowed suicide bombers to roam streets of Paris undetected and mount the deadly attacks, newest entrants in Europe – the Middle Eastern...

He has been called an unlikely ambassador and an improbable American. A lot of people still wonder who would have gone and lived under rickety makeshift shelters on the quake-hit hills of Pakistani part of Kashmir in 2005 –...

Photo showing 2007 flooding across South Asia is by Anameofmyveryown under creativecommons license via Wikimedia Commons What is keeping South Asia mired in a morass of poverty? Corruption, conflicts, religious extremism, flawed governance, environmental degradation, water issues,...

An agreement between deeply divided countries in Vienna on a new UN diplomatic initiative toward ending the Syrian imbroglio and U.S. decision to send a small number of troops for an assistance mission in the north of...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted the 2003 Iraq invasion has partly contributed to the rise of ISIL (also called ISIS or Daish) but hinted that creation of the feared militant group was more of an outcome...

Pakistan-India cricket contests are among the most exciting sport competitions with huge following in South Asia and beyond. In the last one year,  the two countries have been locked in a diplomatic stalemate and repeated skirmishes along...

Pakistani-Americans got an insight into unprecedented military operations in tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan, which has eliminated  3,400 terrorists and, according to analysts, also dealt a crippling blow to the groups such as the Haqqani...

India and Pakistan are bound together by geography, culture, and centuries of flowering of arts and many manifestations of human creativity. Since 1947, highly talented individuals from both sides of the border have excelled in music,...

Over the past few months, the world has been following painful stories of Syrian refugees dying in their desperate rush for migration to Europe. But Americans of Pakistani and Indian descent have also been deeply troubled...