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Editor’s Desk January 2020 started with a string of mixed developments around the world like the World Economic Forum’s well-orchestrated clarion call for action on climate change and the sudden spread of Coronavirus. America lost one...

By Anjali Singh, Mayra Bokhari What is the purpose of life? Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, former Pakistani High Commissioner and Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, raised this question in his class World of...

Vanessa O’ Brien has been a prominent financial expert and business executive for years. But economics is not the only area of her expertise. She is a seasoned mountaineer, the first American woman to surmount K-2...

Pakistan has categorically rejected Indian media reports that Indian troops targeted the so-called terrorist launchpads on the Pakistani side of the Line of Control in Kashmir and instead the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad lambasted India over its...

Pakistan American Business Association will hold a trade show on October 20 in Fairfax, Virginia, affording an opportunity to entrepreneurs from both countries to explore ways for expansion in two-way commerce. “We have entitled this trade...

Actress Mehwish Hayat got more recognition for her talents this week when Pakistan appointed her a Goodwill Ambassador for Girls’ Rights. The recipient of the prestigious civilian award, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, Hayat, announced about her appointment in a...

Fourteen centuries ago, Hazrat Ali had cautioned on the perils of pandering to the privileged few.  The contention of the great sage – widely recognized as the fountainhead of Sufism – was that whatever you do...

A Little While A little boy playing with words a little voice crying for love a little love wasting for you the senseless patterns of the garden butterfly the insistent urgency of the army motorcycle all...

President Donald Trump Monday renewed his offer to help India and Pakistan to address their conflict over Kashmir, saying he gets along with both countries “very well.” “India and Pakistan are having a conflict over Kashmir...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discussed the festering Kashmir imbroglio with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a meeting in France, reaffirming the world body’s position which expresses concern and urges restraint in the disputed territory. The...