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India, known as the world’s largest democracy, starts national elections on Thursday, where over 900 million voters will participate in …
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Similarities Between Malaysia and Pakistan Malaysia and Pakistan share a somewhat similar history. Like Pakistan, Malaysia got its independence from …
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Pakistan has negotiated very difficult geo-strategic challenges for the last four decades. In the past, Pakistan had been the darling …
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Last month, fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a 60,000-strong Syrian militia that has been Washington’s primary partner in …
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Fifty years ago this month, a North Korean fighter jet shot down a U.S. spy plane over the Sea of …
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Candidate Donald Trump won the presidency because he talked tough in ways no presidential candidate has done in recent memory, …
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The fallout from the Mueller Report continues to roil Washington, with one side of the aisle hoping to scrutinize Robert …
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One of the many promises by the Bharatiya Janata Party in its Election 2019 manifesto is one to allow the …
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America is in danger of “a McCarthyite Red Scare.” China could be the latest target of unfounded fear. So said …
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THE revelation by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in a press conference in Multan that Pakistan had credible intelligence about …
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LORD Thomson, the Canadian media baron who ruled London’s Fleet Street for decades, described news as the grey stuff between …
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On Monday the Trump administration took the unprecedented step of designating Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist …
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One hundred forty-eight years ago this month, a member of Congress decried what he saw as a double standard regarding …
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