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The influential media in the United States continues to be preoccupied with the aftermath of the government shutdown, and especially with the Obamacare’ the object of the Republicans’ continuous ire. The other object of ‘Republicans versus Democrats’ dispute was resolved when the Republicans gave in and agreed to raise the ceiling for the national debt. The Second Liberty Bond Act …

The warm waters of the Gulf look quiet but such tranquillity hardly reflects the conflicts this region continues to generate. The euphoria of the so-called Arab Spring is long gone, what remains is a region that is rich with resources and burdened with easily manipulated history that is in a state of reckless transition. No one can see what the …

The warm waters of the Gulf look quiet but such tranquillity hardly reflects the conflicts this region continues to generate. The euphoria of the so-called Arab Spring is long gone, what remains is a region that is rich with resources and burdened with easily manipulated history that is in a state of reckless transition. No one can see what the …

The map of the modern Middle East, a political and economic pivot in the international order, is in tatters. Syria’s ruinous war is the turning point. But the centrifugal forces of rival beliefs, tribes and ethnicities’ empowered by unintended consequences of the Arab Spring’ are also pulling apart a region defined by European colonial powers a century ago and defended …

In the US, spying is a big business. The NSA’s new centre for stocking computer records at Bluffdale, Utah will cost on its own $2 billion, but the agency has a ‘secret-defense’ budget which, for all its cloak of secrecy, is at least five times that. It’s a slush fund involving the huge defense contractors like Lockheed-Martin and Endgame as …

The ongoing Iranian nuclear crisis is all about a global nuclear order, based on what India’s former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh once described as ‘nuclear apartheid.’ To our friends in the Western world, the nuclear question has traditionally been uni-dimensional. The symptom, not disease, is their problem. Their undivided focus has been on non-proliferation only as a concept which …

Dr Song Jong-Hwan Ambassador of South Korea to Pakistan JWT: What is your assessment of the bilateral relations between Pakistan and South Korea? Dr Song Jong Hwan (SJH): I assumed my responsibilities as ambassador of my country to Pakistan in July this year and even in such a short period, I feel that Pakistan is a great and a very …

News From National & International Press National Sep 16: Sindh Prosecutor General Shahadat Awan resigned from his office. Sep 16: Malala Yousufzai and an American singer, human rights and social justice activist Harry Belafonte were jointly announced as the recipients of Amnesty International’s ‘Ambassador of Conscience Award’ for 2013. Sep 17: The Peshawar High Court directed the federal and Khyber …

Small sensors found in most smartphones and laptops are sensitive enough to detect the movement of moderate and large earthquakes, and could vastly expand the information gathered during seismic events in densely-populated cities, new research suggests. The devices, called micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers, measure movement in three dimensions and tell the phone’s screen to flip from horizontal to vertical when …

National Geographic ‘Xpeditions’ section defines migration as the movement of people from one place of the world to another for the purpose of taking up permanent or semi-permanent settlement. However in ‘International Migration’ people migrate from one country to another. According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, international migration is a global phenomenon that is growing …