By: Roger Cohen PARIS — In the end the French election turned on the most unlikely of subjects: Europe. Yes, the ugly European duckling of 2016 politics — rejected by Britain, mocked by President Trump — ushered Emmanuel Macron into the Élysée Palace as France’s youngest president. Macron, throughout his campaign, was strong in his support of the European Union …

By: Atta-ur-Rahman During the last two years, I have travelled to Austria, Italy and France to explore the possibility of establishing top class engineering and technology universities in Pakistan. These journeys were to convince the leading varsities in these countries to form consortia of their best universities which could then set up top class educational institutions in Pakistan. We spend …

By: ZAHID HUSSAIN CHINA recently hosted 29 heads of state and government at the Belt and Road Forum, reinforcing the country’s claim to leadership of an emerging geopolitical and economic world order. The summit conference that also attracted representatives of more than 40 other countries and multilateral financial agencies was the clearest expression yet of China breaking out of its …

By: Madiha Afzal PAKISTAN wants its Afghan refugees to go home. The repatriation numbers are staggering: more than 600,000 Afghan refugees are said to have returned home from Pakistan in 2016, to a country still under attack by the Afghan Taliban. In April alone, at least 140 soldiers and military officers died in an assault on an Afghan military base, …

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By: JANE PERLEZ and YUFAN HUANG VANG VIENG, Laos — Along the jungle-covered mountains of Laos, squads of Chinese engineers are drilling hundreds of tunnels and bridges to support a 260-mile railway, a $6 billion project that will eventually connect eight Asian countries. Chinese money is building power plants in Pakistan to address chronic electricity shortages, part of an expected …

By: Zahid Gishkori Pakistan’s stance ISLAMABAD: Legal team of Pakistan on Monday told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that it had no jurisdiction to review the proceedings in Pakistan and could not hand over the spy to India. “We told the court (ICJ) that India was trying to create a smoke screen. We told the court that India was …

By: Hussain H Zaidi Recently, while arguing against the crass materialism and selfishness that allegedly form the basis of Western culture, the head of a noted religio-political party stated that in the US a man wouldn’t even buy ice cream for his girlfriend. Therefore, Pakistanis – generous and caring as they are towards their friends and relatives – must not …

By: Syed Ali Sajjad KARACHI: Short-termism refers to the currently popular focus on immediate gains and ignorance of the future. This makes the future much more uncertain and entails a lot more risk. Some analysts credit the global financial crises to short-termism. It is a relatively new term in literature and is gaining popularity after a famous Ted Talk by …

By: JANE PERLEZ, YUFAN HUANG & PAUL MOZUR DANDONG, China — As the end of the fashion season approached, and the suits and dresses arrived in her company’s warehouses here in the Chinese border town of Dandong, the accountant crammed about $100,000 into a backpack, then boarded a rickety train with several co-workers. She asked to be identified only by …