Maryam Nawaz arrested amid crackdown
Shawdesh Desk: Pakistani anti-corruption officials arrested opposition leader and daughter of former Pakistani prime minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif Thursday, one of the most high-profile arrests in a crackdown on alleged ReadMore
Muslim pilgrims descend on Makkah for Hajj
Shawdesh Desk: Hundreds of thousands of white-clad pilgrims, many gripping umbrellas to ward off Saudi Arabia’s blistering summer sun, descended on Mecca this week ahead of the annual Hajj. Saudi ReadMore
UN flags need to cut meat to curb land use impact on global warming
Shawdesh Desk: Global meat consumption must fall to curb global warming, reduce growing strains on land and water and improve food security, health and biodiversity, a United Nations report on ReadMore
Feeling unsuited to Nantucket Island
AT THE beginning of this summer, I finished Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. I was supposed to read this American classic in 1978, for my early 19th-century American literature course. I was ReadMore
Amla retires from international cricket
Sprots Desk: South African batsman Hashim Amla on Thursday announced his retirement from international cricket. Amla, 36, hit 55 international centuries, including South Africa’s highest Test score when he struck ReadMore
Distorting Shimla
INDIA’S blatant violations on August 5 of UN resolutions on Kashmir, its own constitution and multiple pledges to hold a plebiscite are perverse outcomes of a disrespect for the written ReadMore
Political triplets of new democracy
The three leaders play stellar roles in an absurd political play with a gigantic setting in which things were never what they seemed, writes LK Sharma THREE important democracies have thrown ReadMore
