Opinion

A few weeks ago, I arranged a conference at my university called Afkar-e-Taza. The title was taken from a couplet by Sir Muhammad Iqbal in his poem called...

China’s adventurism in the South China Sea has prompted a change in Australian policymaking that merits wide international attention. In making...

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is on the verge of being thrown out of office. A rolling corruption scandal has roiled the country, and the entire...

There are lots of preconceptions about poverty. On the right, a common idea is that poor people mainly have their own behaviour to blame -- that if they...

Paperwork is drowning the establishment of small businesses and has discouraged many people from starting their own ventures. Official statistics show...

The extent of the heat over Panama Papers being felt by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is evident in how he has gone on a public meeting spree since last week...

The findings of this year’s Arab Youth Survey by a regional media agency indicated an end to violence in the region, apparently offering a sigh of relief...

Kenya is about to destroy its entire stockpile of elephant ivory. More than 100 metric tons of “white gold” – both illegally harvested (confiscated...

People tend to fear spiders and snakes more than they do electrical sockets or fireworks, even though the latter present a far greater danger. This might...