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Following a court order, Pakistani authorities released former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz from Adiala Jail, where they were serving long terms after conviction in a corruption case. The release came hours...

Afghan refugees in Islamabad Photo: UN Prime Minister Imran Khan has promised to grant citizenship to Afghan refugees living in the country for decades, citing both humanitarian and law and order reasons. Khan, who initially made...

A prominent Pakistani-American entrepreneur Tahir Javed says investment would be the best way to finance the construction of Diamer Basha dam in Pakistan’s north and that he plans to soon materialize $200 million for the massive...

Pakistan, which has oscillated between periods of development and unstable growth, and India, despite sustained growth over several years but with highly uneven distribution of wealth, were placed 150th and 130th respectively on U.N.’s 2018 Human...

Image: Professor Ahmed ith Vice Chancellor Dr. Habib-ur-Rehman on stage at MUST in Mirpur Credit: Prof Ahmed’s Office Diplomacy can get a bad rap, sometimes even characterized as all talk and no substance. But on top...

A NASA image of Hurricane Florence on September 11, 2018 As the region braced for a threatening Hurricane Florence landfall, Governor Ralph Northam Wednesday said Virginia has opened two state-managed shelters to assist residents evacuating the...

Even the word astronomical might not sound big enough when the annual cost of corruption is counted in monetary terms – $2.6 trillion or five percent of global GDP  – much more than the combined wealth...

A view of the Tarbela Dam, the largest earth-filled dam in the world in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Photo Credit: USAID/Wikimedia Commons As parts of the country faced drought, Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday appealed to all Pakistanis,...

The United States looks forward to building on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s hopeful visit to Islamabad and improve the relationship – that deteriorated sharply in the wake of differences over the Trump Administration’s South Asia policy...

The timing of the death of soldier citizen John McCain has immense ramifications for the dangerous crossroads the US is placed in today. For me personally this extraordinary all-American defender of democracy and freedom symbolized the...