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Waris Shah was deeply conscious of the literary craftsmanship and the profundity of thought that had gone into the writing of his epic poem Heer. In fact, upon completion of his magnum opus, Shah declared that...

Asma Jahangir, who passed away this year after decades of fearless advocacy for rights of the marginalized and fierce denunciation of the violators, was posthumously awarded the top UN human rights prize as the world body...

George Mason University Life from Fairfax, Virginia /Wikimedia Commons As a resounding answer to the anti-immigrant rhetoric in 2016, the United States got the news that six of the seven American Nobel Prize winners that year...

For people already connected to the superhighway of information and commerce, it might just be a news story that now half of the world’s population uses the Internet. But for millions – still not using the...

Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai was honored by Harvard University with its Gleitsman Award on Thursday for her courageous leadership of a global movement to equip girls with 12 years of free, quality, and safe education. Now...

Pakistani leaders and people hailed Assistant Superintendent of Police Suhai Aziz Talpur, who led a courageous response to terror attacked on the Chinese consulate in Karachi on Friday. Talpur, who is from lower Sindh, hit headlines...

American Muslims are just one percent of the U.S. population, but they make up 10 percent of the medical practitioners. One of the greatest medical minds in recent history was late Dr. Ayub Ommaya, an illustrious...

 Farmers whose produce feeds the world have scant food left for themselves. A new report says agricultural workers – who make up one third of world’s workforce – have the hardest time accessing food for themselves,...

A series of analyses and polls on the eve of one of the most hotly contested midterm elections reveal that a Democratic control of the House looks within grasp in Tuesday’s ballot, declared by President Donald...

Pakistan suffered a massive loss of Rs 150 billion over three days of violent protests staged by religious clerics against a Supreme Court verdict giving freedom to Aasia Bibi, who was on death row following a...