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There are few more inspiring Christian houses of worship than the great cathedral at Canterbury in the UK. It is of course associated with the killing of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Saint Thomas Becket, and his...

The United Nations has warned of rising intolerance against vulnerable communities around the world since the outbreak of coronavirus often manifesting itself in the form of blaming campaign and violence. “A surge in stigma and racist...

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation’s purpose – and is a test to the quality of...

The COVID-19 crisis has harmed Pakistan’s economic growth prospects and one of the key areas of promise tourism has been badly hurt just when the country was trying to market it. Still trying to cope with...

In 2010, we wrote a blog titled Interdependence Day: Celebrating the “Us” in USA calling for establishing Interdependence Day as a new national holiday. That blog was precipitated by a reaction to a “the acrimonious climate...

Nearly half of the global population, 46.4 percent, cannot connect to the Internet at a time when digital technology is vital to mounting an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the International Telecommunication Union, ...

“In 2008,” Shuja Nawaz writes in the preface to his recently published book, The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighborhood, “I began working on the event that led to The Battle...

One summer day in August 1978, not knowing how to squander a Sunday in Washington, I drove to Muhammad Ali’s mountain hideout at Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, where he was training for his bout against Larry Spinks...

The appearance of exotic big cats in Pakistan‘s northern mountainous regions has excited Nature lovers but experts say a painstaking effort to save snow leopards is facing disruption under coronavirus outbreak.  United States Principal Deputy Assistant...

Education is often seen as a be-all panacea.   50 years ago, David Halberstam in his book, “The Best and the Brightest,” blamed the “bright bulbs” in the White House for the Vietnam debacle, by pushing...