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Tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Facebook  Dustin Moskovitz has pledged a whopping $ 20 million to boost Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, arguing she offers a better way forward for the United States. Writing a piece on...

Amid rise of populism and demagoguery in politics, the United Nations has warned against fallout of exclusivism and urged efforts to safeguard human rights laws. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for collective efforts toward peaceful coexistence...

Nobel Peace Laureate Malala Yousafzai has appealed to the International community to help halt the inhumanity and heartbreak in India-administered Kashmir. “The Kashmiri people, like people everywhere, deserve their fundamental human rights… They should live free...

In a first for an American Muslim, President Barack Obama has nominated a prominent Pakistani American legal expert Abid Riaz Qureshi to serve on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.  “I am...

With just over two months away and three weeks from the first presidential debate, the White House race entered the final stretch Monday with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump locked in what promises to be...

A timely event on the US election last week explored prospects and perils the unusually intense and divisive politicking might have for US politics, society and the foreign policy in the years to come. Some of...

My fellow children of Pakistan, February 14, 1997 in Lahore, Pakistan I was brought into this world as a full blooded Pakistani. Then a little over one year later, added to my blood was the culture...

Americans’ preference for a print book continues to be dominant choice, despite an enormous variety of available to them including through the electronic format. A Pew Survey reports that 65% of Americans have read a print...

What can Rabbis, Pastors and Imams do toward promoting co-existence?  What do their scriptures say and what do they teach in their respective Synagogues, Churches and Mosques? These will be among key questions to figure at...

The United States and China have formally joined the Paris Agreement on Climate change, raising hopes for progress toward stemming the climate degradation around the globe. The two largest economies account for 38 percent of global...