Japan provides $4.196 million to Pakistan for flood relief

ISLAMABAD: The government of Japan has provided $4.196 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), for its humanitarian services in the flood-affected areas of Pakistan. The fund will also aid in improving water...

USAID cancellation — an opportunity in adversity?

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an Executive Order that put on hold for 90 days all USAID and State Department programmes. In these 90 days all programmes would be reviewed and a decision made to cancel them, ...

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From pressuring and isolating to bullying Iran

When events are filtered through time and space, they give us patterns that help us formulate future projections. In international relations, resembling current circumstances and arrangements with past patterns greatly aid in dr...

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Academic Surrender

The events at Columbia University are a stark reminder that the illusion of free speech in the United States is fast crumbling. The Ivy League institution, bowing to pressure from the Trump administration, has agreed to its dema...

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WORLD: THE NEW WORLD DISORDER

The dispute between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky in the White House did not occur by chance. On the contrary, it was a calculated move designed to signal to everyone — especially Republic...

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JFK files

The latest cache of declassified documents from what are known as the ‘Kennedy files’ have not really impressed the small global community of assassination buffs, or, for that matter, the considerably larger community of con...

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