Is slavery in U.S really that different than in North Korea?
Jacob G. Hornberger | Sometimes the mainstream media can be entertaining without intending to. A good example appeared yesterday in an article about slavery in...
BoJack Horseman: a cartoon’s search for happiness
Finally gaining viewership in a wider audience, the animated Netflix series BoJack Horseman's fourth season is set to come out this September. The show follows the...
Deconstructing Trump: Iran sanctions
M K Bhadrakumar | There is an old impish yarn that Noah was stunned to see the two cats he’d put in the Ark trooping...
Pakistan’s private media: Free or captured?
Faiza Rafique | Pakistanis are still celebrating their fantasy of “free media”; ironically the penetration of vested political and economic interests in country’s so called...
Lunar and Solar eclipses: how and why astronomical study originated
In August, a total solar eclipse will traverse America for the first time in nearly a century. So many tourists are expected to flood...
CPEC: Prosperity project
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | Operationalisation scope of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project has been entire Pakistan, therefore, the project would virtually connect all the...
Is democracy consistent with Islam?
Nauman Sadiq | Some people are under the impression that democracy and Islam are incompatible. But I don’t see any contradiction between democracy and Islam,...
World development from the lens of Young photographers
Recently United Nations organized an international photography contest welcoming the young photographers to encapsulate their ideas and feelings about the optimistic sustainable development goals....
Doha turns to Islamabad as the Gulf crisis festers.
News Analysis | Amid the simmering Qatar crisis, Doha has asked Pakistan to play its role to defuse the row with fellow Gulf countries. Last...
Joint Investigation Team summary report in English and Urdu
The 10-volume report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) instituted by the Supreme Court to investigate the Prime Minister and his family over the...
Refugee or migrant? Sometimes the line is blurred
A dozen years before the influx of refugees and migrants to Europe’s shores would force policymakers to take heed, Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 docudrama In this World brought the...
Our government needs to stop looking at our private parts
M. Usama Khawar | Last month Pakistan’s government handed out its first death penalty for the charge of blasphemy online. While the question of the...