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After steady improvement in bilateral cooperation in the last few years, this summer has brought mixed news for US-Pakistan relations. While Washington and Islamabad contemplate a resolution to the standoff over F-16 jets deal, the people of two countries had...

As Pakistan mourned the loss of more than 70 lives in Easter terror carnage in Lahore, world leaders reacted with outpouring of support for the country that remains one of the biggest victims of terrorist violence....

After a one-year lull, terrorists struck Lahore, killing 71 citizens in a packed recreational park, with children and women being majority of victims. The attack took place on the occasion of Easter and injured more than...

World leaders need to blend use of force with political options and invest more in preventing crises than just in containing violent extremists to stem the current and so far the most perilous wave of militant violence,...

This time it was the Bacha Khan University in Pakistan’s northwestern Pushtun belt  town of Charsadda – a center of ancient Gandhara civilization – in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which along with tribal areas has been on...

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...

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...

Energy-starved South Asia with a burgeoning population and food-deficient Central Asia with surplus energy, have entered into landmark agreements – known as TAPI and CASA-1000 – in a proposition that promises to be win-win for all....

The year 2015 has been one of the worst in recent history for women and children.There seems to be no end to their travails in conflict-ridden regions and insurgency-hit countries. Women, belonging to both majority and...