Time to stop being duped by the private education industry
Aisha Sarwari | Private education is a billion-rupee industry in Pakistan. It is a perceived national consensus that public education is not even half as...
Twitter fails to take action against Trump nuclear threats
Qaiser Sajjad | People all over the world are discussing American president Donald Trump’s tweet of January 2nd, which states: “North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un...
Ex-senator’s claims against Pakistan highlight US hypocrisy
Jamal Hussain | Larry Pressler, the former three time US senator from South Dakota was in the news recently, painting nuclear Pakistan as a threat...
Psychiatrist warns US Congress about Trump’s mental health
AFP | At least a dozen members of the US Congress, most of them Democrats, were briefed by a Yale University professor of psychiatry on...
Russian air strikes kill 18 civilians in Syria
AFP | At least 23 civilians were killed Wednesday in the Syrian opposition stronghold of Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, most of them in Russian air...
Israel to expel thousands of African migrants
AFP | Israel plans to force tens of thousands of African migrants to leave over the next three months by threatening to arrest those who...
Trump tweets accusing Pakistan: Is there a method to his madness?
Jamal Hussain | “Pakistan gave us only lies and deceit,” tweeted Donald Trump the US President as a New Year’s gift to its most allied...
Pakistan’s ambitions for 2018
Ikram Sehgal | Events of national significance tend to linger on in our combined memories for some time, even then 2018 ushered in hopes of...
Azad Jammu and Kashmir vs. Indian Occupied Kashmir: The difference
Mohsin Shahid | It was 2004, a year before the devastating earthquake in Pakistan, when there was a murder in Dherkot, district Bagh in Azad...
Taj Mahal visitors limited to preserve iconic monument
AFP | India is to restrict the number of daily visitors to the Taj Mahal in an attempt to preserve the iconic 17th-century monument to...
Middle East mess expands to East Africa
James M Dorsey | The six-month-old Gulf crisis has expanded to the Horn Africa, potentially fuelling simmering regional conflicts. Renewed fears of heightened tension in the...
Trump targets Palestine in next aid cut threat
AFP | President Donald Trump admitted the Middle East peace process was in difficulty Tuesday and threatened to cut US aid to Palestinians, currently worth...