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By Aijaz Zaka Syed The writer is a Middle East based columnist. For those of us who generally admire President Obama as a man of principle, it is wrenching to watch his paralysis. As I see it, Syria has been his worst mistake, a huge blot on his legacy, writes Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.      Kristof comes from …

Ahead of the upcoming Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit, Pakistan will be paying particularly keen attention to exchanges between its two neighbours, China and India. The two countries have always shared an uneasy relationship as they vie for regional supremacy – something Pakistan has tried to take advantage of by developing a close alliance with China …

By Syed Mohammad Ali Why rich countries give aid to the developing world is a contested topic, concerning which it is not hard to find an extreme divergence of opinion. On one side, aid is considered no more than a ‘carrot’ dangled by powerful countries to entice the developing world to do their bidding. On the other hand, rich countries …

Editorial — Daily Dawn THE ‘good’ news is that there are a few countries worse off than us when it comes to the proportion of population that experiences hunger on a daily basis. But, needless to say, that is hardly much consolation. The newly released Global Hunger Index, the rather anodyne-sounding measure that ranks countries based on four criteria related to …

By: Sakib Sherani THE world appears to be engulfed by the politics — and economics — of anger. Much of the ire stems from the ‘fallout’ of globalisation — freer trade and large-scale migration of people — and is concentrated in the advanced economies. Results from a 2014 survey by Pew Research Centre are illustrative. Fifty per cent of respondents …

By Lawrence M. Krauss Donald Trump’s candidacy has been a source of anxiety for many reasons, but one stands out: the ability of the President to launch nuclear weapons. When it comes to starting a nuclear war, the President has more freedom than he or she does in, say, ordering the use of torture. In fact, the President has unilateral …

BY Sultan M Hali Yellow journalism is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism. The term originates from the period of the nineteenth century, when William Randolph Hearst, the proprietor of “New York Journal” was competing for circulation with Joseph Pulitzer’s “New …

by Joseph Stiglitz There have been around 70 currency unions which have broken up since the end of the Second World War. More has been written about euro than all the other currency unions put together primarily is because it is an unnatural creation. It was a step toward political union rather than a natural consequence of a political union …

National Oct 10: The name of Cyril Almeida was put on the Exit Control List (ECL) after his controversial report in Dawn newspaper on a recent meeting between civil and military leaders. Oct 10: As per a report shared with the National Assembly, only two projects at a cost of $137 million under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have been …

By Sulaiman Mandar The PML-N on one side, all the others on the other. That is the CPEC divide. While the federal government considers it a game changer for Pakistan and the entire region, the others consider it a game changer for only Punjab. Almost all political parties from the smaller provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan complain that …