By Iftikhar Gilani ANKARA, Turkiye (MNTV) – Israel is heading into a parliamentary election that could determine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future. But for millions of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and military control, the outcome may make little difference. Whether Netanyahu retains power or an opposit...
By Akhtar Pathan KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — With artificial intelligence looming over jobs across industries, translators and editors have reason to wonder whether they could become among the last professionals in their fields. But language and translation experts offer a more measured outlook: However sophisticated AI-powered translation tool...
By Shabana Ayaz ANKARA, Türkiye (MNTV) — Türkiye’s birth rate has fallen to levels once associated mainly with ageing European societies, prompting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government to put marriage, children and the traditional family at the heart of an increasingly assertive social and demographic policy. That campaign ...
By Iftikhar Gilani When eminent constitutional lawyer and author late A.G. Noorani called the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh a “menace to India” seven years ago, his warning was directed primarily at the future of the Indian republic. Today, that warning appears to have travelled well beyond India’s borders. The issue is no longer simply wh...
By Mushfiq Ahmad KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) – Eighty-one years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, peace advocates, nuclear experts, and former diplomats are warning that the city’s legacy has never been more relevant. At a time of escalating geopolitical tensions, expanding military rivalries, and continued investment in nuclear arsena...
By Akhtar Pathan CENTRAL ASIA (MNTV) — Chess may have originated in northern India around the sixth century, but Central Asia has emerged as one of the world’s most dynamic chess regions through a unique blend of history, culture and sustained public investment rather than any single tradition. As the world marks World Chess Day on July ...
By Iftikhar Gilani ANKARA (MNTV) — Twenty-two years after being excluded from official NATO events because she wore a headscarf, Türkiye’s First Lady Emine Erdoğan stood at the center of the recently concluded NATO Summit in Ankara. She was seen welcoming world leaders’ spouses and representing the host nation at one of the Allianc...
By Akhtar Pathan KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — What was long regarded as a social problem confined largely to the West has quietly taken hold in Pakistan’s conservative and deeply religious society, where experts warn it is steadily weakening the institution of marriage by driving couples apart and creating rifts within extended families. E...
Safeer Raza MEHRABPUR, Pakistan (MNTV) – Every year on the night of the 10th of Muharram, a 150-year-old wooden-and-glass Tazia emerges from Miran Wari Imambargah in the Sindh town of Mehrabpur, retracing a ritual that has remained virtually unchanged for more than a century. Commissioned by Mir Bagh Ali Talpur around 1897–98, the Tazia was [&...
By Akhtar Pathan SIALKOT, Pakistan (MNTV) — The Adidas “Trionda,” the official match ball of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, was made here in Sialkot — the latest in a line of World Cup balls to roll off the production floor of a single Pakistani company. Every four years, when the world’s best footballers step […]
