After Pakistan’s recent election, Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party are now forming a new government. As usual, it will be greeted by an economic crisis. A trip, cap in hand, to the …
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The results of last week’s national and provincial elections in Pakistan came as a surprise to most analysts (including me). And while everyone expected that the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N), the incumbent governing party …
Late last week a US drone killed Maulana Fazlullah, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban—known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)—in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province. This is a serious body blow to the TTP, which had …
The beat No charges for officers in Alton Sterling slaying The Louisiana Attorney General has announced that two white police officers who shot and killed a black man in 2016 will not face criminal charges. …
The beat Adelaide drug haul The Australian Federal Police seized 313 kilograms of methamphetamine in what was described as the biggest drug haul in South Australian history. The shipment, hidden in two crane jibs, most …