By. Bandy X. Lee & Jeffrey D. Sachs When Donald Trump took office early last year, many pundits believed that he would settle into his presidency and pivot to normality....

For years together successive state governments have promised moon and starts to people by way of jobs and fast-track recruitments. It goes without saying that so far the incumbent government...

By: Rashid Paul Srinagar, Feb 27: The J&K High Court on Tuesday granted three weeks time to Gulmarg Development Authority (GDA) for finalization of the Master Plan for the famed...

By: Manzoor Gilani Current Prime Minister (PM) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Raja Farooq Haider Khan, recently stirred up a debate related to directives issued by Pakistan PM Shahid...

By: Pratap Bhanu Mehta Corruption and plutocracy were major issues in the 2014 election. Those issues helped delegitimise the UPA government. It is now worth asking how they are going...

By: Marwan Asmar Why is Israel, a powerful military power, afraid of a 17-year-old girl? Ahed Tamimi, currently languishing in one of its prisons, embroiled in a trial that could...

By: Jawed Naqvi SHE saw herself as an actor in the south, but as a show thing in the north. “In Tamil films they love to see me act naturally....

By: DWIGHT GARNER The Dutch-born historian and New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma spent several years in Tokyo when he was in his early 20s, and he picked...

While a concerted effort is being made to muzzle the voices of dissent – otherwise the life blood of democracy – the institutions, which were until recently seen as great...

Last Friday the global money-laundering watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decided to put Pakistan on its terrorist financing watch list. The placement will come into effect from June this...