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By Peter Holley, Abby Ohlheiser and Amy B Wang It’s now 2 ½ minutes to “midnight,” according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which warned Thursday that the end of humanity may be near. The group behind the famed Doomsday Clock announced at a news conference that it was adjusting the countdown to the End of it All by moving …

Less than a week into the job, President Trump on Thursday raised the specter of a trade war with America’s third-largest partner, Mexico, as the White House warned that the United States could impose a 20 percent tariff on Mexican imports. This absurd threat, issued as a proposal to cover the cost of a border wall, came just hours after …

BY Mary Scully Perhaps what is most puzzling about the Donald Trump presidency is why US policymakers – those who really run the country – allowed him to take the election when Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by an indisputable margin. That is not to endorse Clinton’s candidacy as preferable to Trump because her actual policies contradict her populist …

Tehran, Dec 30, IRNA – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has elaborated on the issue of extremism and terrorism contaminating the present world and suggested ways to struggle with the evil phenomenon. In an article published in the Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs, the senior diplomat wrote: ‘Much is being articulated today about the formidable challenge presented to the …

By Dr Pervez Tahir “A nation without borders is not a nation,” asserted the newly installed President of the United States. Does that bid farewell to globalisation, viewed in simple terms as a world without borders, not in physical terms but in the form of freer movement of goods, services, investment and people? I always thought that with Trump, you …

Muhammad Amir Rana PRESIDENT Donald Trump of the US has shaken the geopolitical landscape of the world in such a way that many nations are struggling to adjust. At present, world politics are quite fluid, which has created more space for Chinese President Xi Jinping to materialise his dream of regional connectivity. America’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has …

By Farrukh Saleem Capital suggestion Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif deserves the credit for this one. The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) constitute an area of 27,224 square kilometres and a population of around four million – roughly three percent of Pakistan’s area and two percent of our population. Former US president Bush described Fata as “one the most dangerous areas …

Aasim Zafar Khan In its report published in August 2016, the Fata Reforms Committee (FRC) recommended that the tribal regions be integrated into the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) over a transition period of five years. This time is to be used to prepare the tribal regions for integration and to accomplish what the report calls, important objectives and pre-requisites. …

BY Tariq Mushtaq Turkey is our dear brother country and since long we have enjoyed very close ties with the Turkish people as well as with successive governments. As a student of international affairs, I foresee a number of changes in our present system of government. We should for sure be ready to observe the Turkish system of government in …

BY Tania Qureshi The crossroads of diverse civilisations for centuries, the central theater of the great empires, the caravan of traders, path of sundry adventurers and explorers who traversed the twisting mountain paths that came to be known as “silk route” – that’s our Gilgit-Baltistan. This ecstasy of Pakistan is a mélange of unparalleled heritage, music, food, crafts and cultural …