UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is encouraged by the agreement between Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, saying it will help find a way to enable progress towards intra-Afghan negotiations and a comprehensive peace agreement. As per the deal, Ghani will stay as the president while Abdullah will helm the High Council of National Reconciliation...
President Donald Trump claimed last week that the US and Britain had won World War II. This was a shameless lie and distortion of the facts. Many Americans and Canadians like to believe their nations won the war in Europe and give insufficient recognition to the decisive Soviet role. Most Europeans would rather not think...
illions of people in France and Spain counted down to the relaxation of strict coronavirus lockdowns on Monday, hopes of release from their homes laced with fears of a second wave of a pandemic that has killed over 280,000 worldwide and wrought economic disaster. In France, people will be able to walk outside for the...
Turkish television series Resurrection: Ertugrul is set to break a world record of most new subscribers in a month on YouTube. After being aired on the state-run Pakistan Television (PTV), TRT Ertugrul by PTV, the serial’s YouTube channel, crossed one million subscribers. “Now, it’s time to make history by reaching 6.6 million subscribers before May...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for concerted global action to quash the “tsunami” of hate speech that has risen alongside the COVID-19 pandemic. He further said the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering. The UN chief said anti-foreigner sentiment has surged online and in the streets, anti-Semitic...
Anthony Fauci is fast transforming from an independent doctor into a political football, with the latest proof of his metamorphosis being the White House’s refusal to let him testify before the Democrat-controlled House’s Appropriations Committee that’s investigating the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19. Prior to that, the nation’s top infectious disease expert drew attention for...
A Muslim man has been strolling up and down his garden to raise funds for victims of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) across the world, especially those in the United Kingdom and Bangladesh. Hundred-year-old Dabirul Choudhury, who was born in Bangladesh, was inspired by the phenomenal record-breaking efforts of Tom Moore, a British veteran who raised...
All of us are trying to adjust to the unforeseen changes brought about by the onset of COVID-19. The transition to the virtual world has not been a cakewalk for everyone. Several people, particularly of my parents’ generation, are not technology friendly but are now having to adapt to talking with friends and family via...
The successful opening of Gwadar Port to Afghanistan lays the basis for expanding this trade network to Central Asia and Russia via N-CPEC+, which sets a positive example for how BRI-led regionalization can rejuvenate globalization after the coronavirus is finally defeated. The speculative talk about the coronavirus supposedly signaling the impending end of globalization was...
Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? The headlines of today governed by pandemic have radicalized the interpretation of progress. The less attractive picture has been drawn before us and the global currency of modernity is devalued. The alienation of nations, immobile human beings...