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Mahir Ali PEOPLE who are pumped up about the prospect of a Trump presidency fall broadly into two categories. Most of those who voted for the property magnate and TV show host and many of those who backed him from afar believe — or at least hope — Donald Trump will do some good, if not on an international scale …

Zurich (AFP) – Following FIFA’s ruling council’s unanimous approval Tuesday of an expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams in 2026, AFP Sport looks at the evolution of the tournament since the inaugural edition in 1930. – 1930: The first World Cup final kicked off with 13 teams in Uruguay, including four European nations – Belgium, France, Romania and …

In his farewell address, the outgoing President will counter growing – but misguided – criticism of his administration’s approach to the rest of the world. Barack Obama gives his farewell address as US president on Tuesday at McCormick Place in Chicago, the venue for his election night celebration in 2008. This will be the first time in US history that …

BY Abdul Quayyum Khan Kundi Since the news broke out about General Raheel’s appointment as the first commander of the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT) there have been two major criticisms of this decision. First that he has taken up an appointment after just two months of retirement as commander of Pakistan army and second that the alliance hasSunni …

I.A. Rehman THE Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms (PCER) deserves credit for finalising its proposals for reform of the election system before next year’s polls. The National Assembly speaker had perhaps been unduly ambitious when he had asked the committee, set up 29 months ago, to complete its work in three months. The committee’s broad mandate reflected the concerns over …

By MATTHEW J. GOODWINJAN LONDON — The British Labour Party is in meltdown. After reviving the center-left in the 1990s, and then dominating British politics until 2010, Labour now faces the gravest challenge in its 116-year history. One of the oldest social-democratic parties in the world is fighting to survive; there is no guarantee it will. Labour’s crisis is a …

Swati Chaturvedi New Delhi-based journalist; author, “I Am a Troll: Inside the Secret World of the BJP’s Digital Army” NEW DELHI – Trolls are the goons of the online world. This story played out live during the recent U.S. presidential election, when Donald Trump supporters went on a rampage against Hillary Clinton and journalists who had anything critical to say …

by Nyla Ali Khan My maternal grandmother, Akbar Jehan, and her children were subjected to deprivation in my maternal grandfather, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s long absence after his ouster and arrest in 1953. They were condemned to isolation, but Akbar Jehan did not cringe. I still see vestiges of the distrust of statist versions of history and criminalization of progressive politics …

Nikhat Sattar THE wealth and pomp of several Muslim monarchies notwithstanding, the world of Islam is in tatters. Torn by internal strife, lack of focus on starving millions and controlled by greed as well as external powers, Muslim governments are in a state of disarray. Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have reached such levels that they are waging proxy …

NEW DELHI: Recent remarks by India’s new army chief General Bipin Rawat have raised questions if the country has revived its controversial ‘Cold Start’ doctrine for any future standoff with Pakistan, leading analysts wrote in The Hindu on Thursday. Gen Rawat had told India Today last week that the doctrine — instituted after a terrorist attack on Indian parliament in …