by sqshareef | Nov 26, 2020 | News International Pakistan
The US presidential election is mostly over and in a couple of weeks the results will be certified by each state and submitted to Congress. While outgoing President Trump refuses to acknowledge his defeat, most serious observers have accepted the results and are...
by sqshareef | Nov 17, 2020 | News International Pakistan
Four tense days of tabulating results followed the November 3 elections in the US. Finally, all major networks announced that Joe Biden had achieved an insurmountable lead over Donald Trump and Biden was anointed ‘president-elect’. Counting of votes continues, and in...
by sqshareef | Nov 17, 2020 | News International Pakistan
The US has helped spread democratic values across many parts of the world. However, in recent times, as politics within the US has become more and more contentious, many of the key pillars of democracy within the country itself have started to be scrutinized. We are...
by sqshareef | Nov 17, 2020 | News International Pakistan
In the early hours of Friday, October 2, US President Trump tweeted that he and Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus. The very next day Donald Trump was moved to the Walter Reed Medical Center just outside of Washington DC. Statements coming out of...
by sqshareef | Sep 27, 2020 | News International Pakistan
The United States continues to move with trepidation towards national elections on November 3, while the country continues to bounce from one crisis to the next. Over 200,000 Americans are dead from Covid-19 and over 6.5 million have been infected. Tens of millions...
by sqshareef | Sep 22, 2020 | News International Pakistan
Both parties’ political conventions have now concluded. The Democratic Party convention was followed by the Republican convention last week. It turned out to be a very Trump-family focused four days. All members of his family including his children spoke, as did...
by sqshareef | Sep 22, 2020 | News International Pakistan
US political party conventions have now concluded, and campaigns are in full swing. The country nervously moves towards November 3. Kamala Harris, senator from California and former presidential candidate herself was chosen by Joe Biden to be his running mate. Harris...
by sqshareef | Aug 13, 2020 | News International Pakistan
In the wake of recent protests in the US, Donald Trump has declared himself to be the ‘law and order’ president. This term comes with many layers of meaning for Americans. Richard Nixon had declared himself to be the same when he ran for office in 1968 — a time...
by sqshareef | Aug 13, 2020 | News International Pakistan
Five months into the coronavirus pandemic, the US continues to be one of the worst affected countries. With five percent of the world’s population, it has 25 percent of all coronavirus deaths. There is still a battle raging in the country as to whether this is a...
by sqshareef | Aug 13, 2020 | News International Pakistan
The Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden, has recently appointed Farooq Mitha, an American of South Asian heritage, as his director of outreach to the American Muslim community. The election is less than four months away. Normally, campaigning would have been...
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...
