Technology encompasses a huge body of knowledge and tools that ease the use of economic resources as a way to produce goods and services efficiently and innovatively. Perhaps the key reason for the rise of these clusters of innovation has been the role of the government.

Why, as a Muslim, I Defend Liberty, by Mustafa Akyol offers a nuanced critique of these problems by acknowledging their roots in the religious tradition. Yet he also shows that there are strong grounds in the same religious tradition to defend freedom of speech and religion

When conditions are ripe and the environment is conducive, the bulk of Afghan refugees in Pakistan will choose to repatriate voluntarily. All efforts must be made to create that environment. A number of initiatives have been launched to cater to the needs of refugees

Indo-Russian military and energy cooperation persists due to India’s military and nuclear needs and Russia’s economic needs. However, this bond could be fractured by further escalation of Indo-China tension and a deepening Indo-American military, nuclear, space, and economic cooperation.

In India itself, the hard-line approach to Muslims as terrorists is that other communities who are not Hindus like Christians, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs are not viewed from the narrow prism of Hindutva. Modi is not a lone wolf, an exceptional lonely person having extreme views against the Muslim

Saudi Islamic affairs minister Abdullatif bin Abdulaziz al-Sheikh has ordered imams in the kingdom to identify one of the world’s largest Muslim movements as misguided, deviant, dangerous, and a breeder of militancy.

Second strike capability is the ability of a state to respond to a nuclear attack through nuclear retaliation. The possession of this capability, confers a state, the ability to deter its adversaries from resorting to a first strike. States look to achieve the nuclear triad to make their second strike

Pakistan, which is the fifth most populous country in the world with a median age of 23 years and an increasing number of social media users, faces similar challenges of not just being the subject of vile disinformation campaigns through unabated platform manipulation

The nation was shocked and devastated by the distressing news of Priyantha Kumara, a Sri Lankan factory manager working in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan being set upon, lynched, killed in a barbaric and inhumane manner and body torched by a set of insane psychopaths

The mob killing of a Sri Lankan is the culmination of a fire lit decades ago when a doctrinaire interpretation of Islam was allowed to thrive in a politically driven move to legitimize religious intolerance. But take a deep-searching look at it. It’s an old-style western bushwhacking

Taliban’s decisive onslaught on US strategy of democratic engineering has allowed them to establish Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Despite being accused of its double games in the Afghan conundrum, Pakistan is supporting several states in the evacuation of many Afghans.

It is a fact of universal truth though not universally recognized that India is fighting against terrorism in which it is also involved as on November 26, 2008, Mumbai attack. What is happening in Kashmir is unfolding the same. On Wednesday, the Jammu and Kashmir police neutralized three terrorists