Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed on April 29 to remove his brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the Prime Minister. The President had called a meeting with the defecting members of the ruling allianceto discuss the formation of an all-party government, which dissenting members refused to attend in the presence of the PM. President Rajapaksa agreed that […]
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states, of which 28 are in Europe and the other 2 in North America. Established in the aftermath of World War II on the insistence of the Truman administration, […]
Shehbaz Sharif was sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan on April 11. A no confidence motion was introduced against Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister on April 8 after the country passed through a week long hectic drama. The process of electing the new leader of the House began on April 10 after […]
When liberalism is fast becoming out of fashion and racialism is raising hoods everywhere, the US has again made a history. Although it took more than 300 hundred years to welcome a black woman in its Supreme Court, during illiberal times this marks an effort to change the direction of wind. On April 7, Ketanji […]
Pakistan’s solvency has come at stake. The Camel has come under the mountain. On March 28, the Asian Development Bank report said that Pakistan’s debt-to-GDP was the highest in the region at 86 percent in 2019, which further increased to 88 percent in 2020. An ADB Institute report titled “COVID-19 and Economic Recovery Potential in […]
Somalia has come on the brink of famine and experiencing its worst drought in a decade. At least 4.5 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian aid in the country. Livestock are dying and the price of essential goods like food and water is spiking. The number of people who have been internally displaced […]
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, and still continues. It is the largest conventional military attack in Europe since World War II. The invasion by land, air and sea began after a pre-dawn TV address where Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukraine’s military lay down its arms. Russia had positioned almost 200,000 troops and […]
