Pakistan

Kashmir: India and Pakistan’s escalating conflict will benefit Narendra Modi ahead of elections

February 28, 2019

India and Pakistan enter into a volatile situation after weeks of increasing tension.

Pakistan says it shot down Indian jets, carried out air strikes in Kashmir

February 27, 2019

Pakistan carried out air strikes and shot down two Indian jets on Wednesday, Pakistani officials said, a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a war in 1971.

India launches airstrike inside Pakistan; Islamabad denies militant camp hit

Reuters

February 26, 2019

India said its warplanes struck a militant training camp inside Pakistan on Tuesday, raising risk of conflict between the nuclear armed neighbors.

Global Politics

10 defining global security questions of 2018

The World

December 31, 2018

North Korea, Russia, Ukraine and Myanmar are all countries that led to questions of global security.

Religion

Photos: The world celebrates Christmas

The World

December 25, 2018

What does Christmas look like around the world? Here's a peek from Thailand, Pakistan, Iraq, Australia, China and several other countries.

Immigration

They took sanctuary in a Connecticut church — but did not hide from immigration officers

The World

November 15, 2018

A Pakistani family has been in the US for 18 years, including regular check-ins with immigration enforcement. Then, in 2018, an ICE officer told them they should buy plane tickets home. Now, they're in sanctuary in a Connecticut church while they fight to stay in the country.

Health & Medicine

Sewage surveillance is key in the fight against polio

The Conversation

October 19, 2018

The world is at the brink of eradicating polio. A surprise polio outbreak in Israel in 2013 led researchers to look closely for the poliovirus in sewage to detect virus shed in the feces of non-paralyzed people infected with polio, what epidemiologists call the "silent circulation" of polio.

Global Politics

Is Pakistan poised for a Pashtun Spring?

GlobalPost

September 06, 2018

Pashtuns are an ethnic minority group composed largely of about 30 million people in Pakistan. They have also gone missing by the thousands.

Education

Her cousin was killed in a school shooting, but this exchange student decided to stay in the US

The World

September 04, 2018

Sabika Sheikh was killed along with seven other classmates and two teachers at Santa Fe High School in Texas last May. Her cousin, Shaheera Jalil Albasit, wants to keep building peace.

Food

Cross-border meals connect people from countries in conflict

The World

August 29, 2018

Ragini Kashyap hosts pop-up dinners around the world in an effort to showcase the underlying similarities between cultures that are separated by conflict.

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