by sqshareef | Jul 1, 2020 | News International Pakistan
Donald Trump decided to relaunch his presidential campaign in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 19th, 2020. June 19, also known as Juneteenth, celebrates the end of slavery in America, about 150 years ago. A few decades later, formerly enslaved blacks had managed to build a...
by sqshareef | Jul 1, 2020 | News International Pakistan
Over the last two weeks many US cities have seen large protests that were sparked by the killing of an unarmed black man at the hands of police in Minneapolis. These protests have continued to grow, under the now familiar banner of ‘Black Lives Matter’. This is not...
by sqshareef | Jun 8, 2020 | News International Pakistan
Just a few days ago the US reached the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from Covid-19. Even as the country was grappling with these losses, many more disturbing events have taken place. Just in the past week, while the nation was coming to grips with Covid-19 losses,...
by sqshareef | Jun 8, 2020 | News International Pakistan
The rapid deterioration of the US economy due to the novel coronavirus pandemic has started to make President Trump very nervous. After all, the presidential election is less than six months away. After continuously downplaying the threat, he was ultimately forced to...
by sqshareef | May 14, 2020 | News International Pakistan
These are very difficult times across much of the world, but particularly so in the US. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases here are well past 1,100,000 and the death toll is closing in on 70,000. We have been in near total lockdown since mid-March. The Greater...
by sqshareef | May 14, 2020 | News International Pakistan
In the US, it is hard to watch or read any news these days that isn’t focused on the novel coronavirus. The total number of confirmed infections in the country is almost at 750,000, and the number of dead is over 40,000 and growing. Yet, the impact across the...
by sqshareef | May 14, 2020 | News International Pakistan
The coronavirus continues to dominate the news cycle and is occupying pretty much the entire attention of all in the US. Since I wrote about this two weeks ago, confirmed coronavirus cases in the US have gone up from 30,000 to over 330,000 and deaths from the virus...
by sqshareef | Apr 4, 2020 | News International Pakistan
I have just returned to Washington DC after a month-long trip to Pakistan and Bangladesh. Concerns about the coronavirus had started to emerge when I left home. But coming back to the US now feels like we have returned to a completely changed landscape. Having...
by sqshareef | Apr 3, 2020 | Blogs
Travel to Bangladesh with OBAT Helpers Trip Report – March 3-10, 2020 CEO of OBAT Helpers, Anwar Khan invited me to visit Bangladesh to see firsthand work being done by his organization in ‘Forgotten Community’ (Urdu-Speakers) camps across the country. These are...
by sqshareef | Feb 15, 2020 | News International Pakistan
Last week the US Senate acquitted Donald Trump of charges of Abuse of Office and Obstruction of Congress. A few weeks earlier the House of Representatives had impeached Trump by a majority vote, an act that will remain on the books for all times. Trump has led an...
by sqshareef | Feb 15, 2020 | News International Pakistan
Extreme polarization in American society is a rapidly emerging phenomenon, both in how people assess the performance of their elected leaders as well as in how much they trust or distrust various media sources. A recent survey shows that 89 percent of all Republicans...
by sqshareef | Feb 15, 2020 | News International Pakistan
We are barely two weeks into the new year, and all hopes of 2020 bringing a measure of peace have faded away. The year has begun with major hostilities between the US and Iran. On January 3, on President Trump’s orders Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was killed in a...
