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If business-as-usual continues in the realm of water management, some regions of the world will lose up to 6 percent of their GDP, and water shortages will spark conflict and trigger wide-scale migration of population, a...

Donald Trump celebrated Tuesday’s win in Indiana and GOP primary rival Ted Cruz’s exit by challenging Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who finished behind Senator Bernie Sanders in the Midwestern state. The billionaire businessman, who has edged...

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...

With the mercury already shooting to 40 degrees centigrade (104 Fahrenheit) in southern Pakistan and eastern and southern parts of India, South Asia is bracing for a series of heat extreme waves over the next two months. According to...

Armed conflicts around the world are taking a heavy toll on children leaving them unimmunized against infectious diseases as health facilities. Almost two-thirds of children without even basic vaccines live in countries that are either partially...

The World Press Freedom Index released this week comes as yet another reminder of restrictions journalists around the world face in covering events, particularly those exposing wrong doings by the powerful and the influential. Finland, Netherland,...

As Donald Trump savored his victory in New York primary, his Muslim supporter and prominent entrepreneur said Trump has firmly established his status as the GOP choice for 2016 White House race and any attempt at denying...

It is not my the GPS in my car but my life’s GPS that took lots of reroutings as I swerved from an ultimate route. I studied in a French convent school and one day suddenly Urdu language...

  Seen as the biggest corporate data leak in history, the so-called Panama Papers continue to rattle the tax authorities around the World, as they scramble to plug loopholes that were so immaculately exploited by wealthy...

The Panama Papers have taken Pakistani politics by storm, turning Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif into a beleaguered figure after revelations that his daughter and two sons had offshore companies listed in their names. The unprecedented reaction...