Sri Lanka steps up security ahead of Friday prayers

AFP | Sri Lankan troops and police stepped up security around mosques ahead of Friday prayers amid fears that anti-Muslim riots that have left three...

Ultra-nationalist Myanmar monk walks free from prison

AFP | An ultra-nationalist Myanmar monk was released from prison on Friday after serving time for inciting unrest in an anti-Rohingya protest in 2016, a...

Trump and Kim: an end to estrangement?

AFP | President Donald Trump has agreed to a historic first meeting with Kim Jong Un in a stunning development in America's high-stakes nuclear standoff...

Fraud of Calibri Font: Disinformation and Cover Up by Pakistani Media?

Ikram Sehgal | This adverse media focus propagating perceptions quite contrary to reality about the “Calibri Font” is meant to discredit the allegations of alleged...

Are public records safe?

Dr. Farid A Malik | Are public records safe? The answer is a big no; they are totally vulnerable and exposed to infernos of all kinds....

Putin and Russian Missile Defense: Advice from US Military Think Tank

Dr. David Leffler | Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted in his annual speech, delivered on in Moscow, that his military has a new intercontinental cruise...

The new US National Defence Strategy

Imran Khan | On January 19th, the US Secretary of Defence, James Norman Mattis, unveiled the unclassified synopsis of the classified 2018 National Defence Strategy (NDS)...

New York to pay Muslim women forced to remove hijabs

AFP | The city of New York has agreed to pay $180,000 to three Muslim women forced by police to remove their headscarves to have...

Authorities look to revive past glory of Lahore

AFP | Perched on scaffolding, restoration experts chip away at decades of grime and repair broken mosaic tiles in a bid to save the colossal...

9 simple ways to stay calm in highly charged situations

David K. William | Let’s face it: we all sometimes find ourselves in situations where we feel like our patience is on its last thread. We...

US urges UN to investigate chemical weapons in Syria

AFP | The United States is asking the UN Security Council to set up a new inquiry of chemical weapons attacks in Syria following reports...

US lights up pathway to Afghan peace

M K Bhadrakumar |  The Principal Assistant Secretary of State in the US state department’s Bureau of South & Central Asian Affairs, Alice Wells gave...