Category: Region

‘Pakistan Changed After Simla Conference Between Z A Bhutto and Indira Gandhi’

Shared by Arjumand Hussain: In this exclusive extract from his book “Scoop! Inside Stories from…

Khan has ‘no issue with whoever is appointed as army chief’

Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supremo Imran Khan on Sunday said that he…

Xi’s Intensive Meetings With World Leaders at G20 Summit in Bali

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with a number of foreign leaders – including some from…

How Killing Sparrows Led to Great Famines in China (VIDEO)

In 1958, Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too…

COMMENT: Pak Reactivates Saudi, Kuwaiti Offer For Refinery in Gwadar, Balochistan

To meet fossil fuel demands till 2040, Pakistan has reactivated stalled Saudi & Kuwaiti oil…

Racism Row: How Asia and Africa Shaped Civilization

When Josep Borrell spoke of ‘privilege’, did that mean ‘white’ privilege? By Tariq A. Al…

Iran’s Protests Are the First Counter-Revolution Led by Women

Robin Wright in The New Yorker: The girls and women of Iran are just bitchin’ brave,…

Why Policing is and Will Continue to Remain Political in Pakistan

Because policing has been treated as a project of political ordering and disordering, it allows…

Sri Lanka: Three Top State Institutions Merged

COLOMBO TIMES Reports: An extraordinary gazette notification has been issued bringing the Department for Registration…

Was Bajwa’s Advice Reason for Imran Khan Moving Out of PM House?

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa had already warned former prime minister…

Africa’s Century of Growth?

On Morten Jerven’s The Wealth and Poverty of African States (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Review…

Why Iranian Women are Risking Everything By Burning Their Hijabs

Jonathan Guyer in Vox: It was not an isolated incident of police violence in Iran. But…