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Times Square in New York, Photo: Chensiyuan/Wikimedia Commons The middle class in America earned highest income in 2016, overtaking the previous record level achieved in 1999, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The Bureau released three...

Back-to-back protest demonstrations outside Myanmar’s embassy in Washington D.C. this week urged the United States to stop massacre of the Rohingya community, which the UN and human rights bodies say face state persecution. On Friday, Americans...

The U.S. economy added 156,000 jobs in August, with labor force participation remaining 62.9 percent while unemployment rate recording 4.4 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released new data on Friday, reporting that manufacturing created 36,000...

Amidst Trump’s newly enunciated hardline tone toward Pakistan, a timely gathering unusual in its scope and focus convened in the greater Washington area to hail Pakistan’s 70th birthday. The driving force behind the well-choreographed event was...

Photo: Pakistan Women’s Cricket Team/Wikimedia Commons Sana Mir, captain of the Pakistan women’s cricket team, is among 30 remarkable professionals recently named “Asia 21 Young Leaders” by Asia Society, She has been selected for the 2017 class...

Three decades ago, when I began the Jinnah Quartet, which came to consist of the feature film, Jinnah (1998), starring Christopher Lee; the documentary, Mr. Jinnah: The Making of Pakistan (1997); the graphic novel, The Quaid:...

I was in the middle school in Chakwal – a town now in Potohar region of Punjab, Pakistan- when the movement for independence from Britain and partition of the Indian subcontinent was in full swing. The...

Photo: Tomwsulcer/Wikimedia Commons Young people aged 15-24 are pushing the Internet use to new boundaries, constituting 71 percent of the nearly half of the world’s population connected to the digital information and connectivity highway. Of the...

Kabul after a massive explosion Photo: UNAMA/Jawad Jalali Calling the Afghan conflict an “ugly war, “the United Nations has said civilians lives – including those of women and children – continue to be lost at record...

U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale is pledging close cooperative relationship  with Pakistan in the years ahead, arguing that people in both countries have a major role toward showing mutual benefits of the wide-ranging ties. “For...