by sqshareef | Jun 15, 2023 | 2023, News International Pakistan
On February 1, a very large balloon was spotted over the US state of Montana; the balloon was determined to have originated in China. Why exactly China would resort to flying a balloon over US airspace remains somewhat of a mystery. The US allowed the balloon to fly...
by sqshareef | Jun 15, 2023 | News International Pakistan
In 2022 the population of China declined for the first time in decades. It is now estimated that India may have surpassed China, becoming the most populous country in the world China has now started to suffer the consequences of its decades-long one-child policy. Its...
by sqshareef | Jun 15, 2023 | 2023, News International Pakistan
Last August, the FBI raided former US president Donald Trump’s resort home in Florida. They searched for and confiscated a large number of classified documents that were in the former president’s possession and that he had refused to turn over to the...
by sqshareef | Jun 15, 2023 | 2023
Over the past several decades there have been a few years that really stand out for having an impact that resonates for many years to come. One such year was 2001 when Americans’ view of threats faced by their country was fundamentally altered. The financial crisis of...
by sqshareef | Jun 14, 2023 | News International Pakistan
The dust has settled on the American midterm elections. It was widely expected the Republican Party would make major gains, as has been typical of past elections when one party controls the White House and both chambers of Congress Instead, the Republican Party has...
by sqshareef | Mar 8, 2022 | Blogs
“As I am writing to you now, a siren is going off telling everybody to go down in the basement. It all still seems unreal and crazy,” wrote my friend and former colleague who now lives in Lviv with her family. She wrote this message on Friday, February 25. Lviv is a...
by sqshareef | Jan 9, 2022 | News International Pakistan
In the last nine elections for the president of the United States stretching across 30+ years, the Republican Party candidate has only twice been able to get a majority of the votes cast – yet the candidate for the Republican Party has won four of these nine elections...
by sqshareef | Dec 18, 2021 | News International Pakistan
International IDEA, a European think tank which tracks progress of democracies across the world, has in its recently released report assessed the US as a ‘backsliding democracy.’ This assessment was based on a study of 28 indicators of democracy during 2020-21....
by sqshareef | Nov 24, 2021 | News International Pakistan
The US political scene continues to be rife with acrimony, and negativity. Discussion in the political press these days is mostly focused on how much Joe Biden’s approval ratings have dropped in recent months. While this discussion started with the ill-conceived...
by sqshareef | Nov 24, 2021 | News International Pakistan
In early November a handful of states, among them Virginia and New Jersey, conducted elections for governor and other key positions. Both these states had been reliably in the hands of the Democratic Party for the past several election cycles. However, in these...
by sqshareef | Nov 24, 2021 | News International Pakistan
On October 18, retired American general Colin Powell passed away due to complications from Covid. He was 84 years old and had been treated for blood cancer which had compromised his immune system. Powell was one of the most respected figures from recent American...
by sqshareef | Oct 23, 2021 | News International Pakistan
Last week, after much back and forth, the US Congress passed a resolution to increase the government’s borrowing limit so it could continue to operate. Republicans in the Senate had been blocking the effort, threatening a shutdown of the government and potential...
