By Paul Woodward

When terrorism has a white face it invariably gets marginalized in the popular narrative. The lone wolf, the outsider, the sociopath — in many cases these portraits of misanthropic, isolated individuals who turn to violence are quite accurate.

By Abhirup Bhunia

Legislators across the developed world are hurriedly stringing together laws to tighten control on borders to prevent escalating immigration, an international phenomenon that is only to be anticipated in a world that refuses to retreat from the globalization fiesta. Antipathy towards immigrants is a shared trait among the far right parties of Europe, America and Australia. But cutting back global migration is tantamount to shortsightedness. The future in respect of migration is anybody’s guess, but it is certainly reckless to overlook the mutual benefits that liberalized borders accrue to humanity. 

By Zachary Latif

Since time immemorial, or at least 1948, Muslims have pinned all their woes upon the Israelis – Pakistan, no different. Because somehow a regional, political animosity between two people who we realistically share nothing in common with beyond a religion with one, has become a rallying point for us to gather at.

By Saleem Shahid

Eight employees of a US-based NGO, the American Refugee Committee (ARC), were kidnapped by some armed men from Pishin area, some 50km north of the provincial capital.

By Antony Lerman

The motivation for the law is not primarily to give voice to the sentiments of the Israeli-Jewish majority, although it relies on the existence of those sentiments to achieve its goal - and that is something altogether more far-reaching.