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Americans face a stark choice this timeAmericans will have the privilege on Tuesday of choosing whether they want to retain their current President, Republican Donald Trump, for a further four

LAHORE

Well, either black lives do not matter, or it does not matter so long as other blacks do the killing. Look at what happened in Lagos, where 10 people were killed when security forces fired on a crowd

Can there be political discussion without considering all factors?The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) rally at Gujranwala was remarkable, but not explosive. It would have been explosive had

LAHORE

The protests in Thailand do not really make sense, as they are against the monarchy. The real question is not whether the monarch is corrupt or not. How can a monarch be corrupt? We have got a precede

Could this election disintegrate US democracy?AT PENPOINTThe performance of President Donald Trump in the first debate against Democrat rival Joe Biden was typical, and his crassness, rude

LAHORE

I suppose it was only a matter of time before United States President Donald Trump developed Covid-19. But it seems that this time, the person who brought the infection into the president’s circle h

LAHORE

Well, they finally got around to handing down a verdict in the Baldia Town fire case, in which 100 factory workers were killed after the factory was set on fire, with death sentences given to Abdur Re

AT PENPOINTPM starts a premature debateThe debate that has begun about the punishment of the accused in the Sialkot Motorway gangrape shows a touching confidence in the police’s ability to do so

LAHORE

Prime Minister Imran Khan came up with a solution for the gang-rape on the Lahore-Sialkot Motorway. Public hanging, which he said was impossible because the European Union would not stand for it, or c

Are there lessons for the present in the past?AT PENPOINTIndeed, it is the period after Ranjeet Singh’s death, and the multiple struggles to succeed him, that the term Sikhashahi owes it

LAHORE

The campaign season isn’t passing off so peacefully in the United States. First there was the shooting by policemen of a black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Jacob Blake, which left him paralysed from t

Kashmiri freedom and the OICAT PENPOINTThe expression of disappointment by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at the failure of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) to convene a