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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 […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the emotional reaction across much of the Western media landscape was immediate and unmistakable. Television presenters struggled to contain their anguish as images of bombed neighborhoods and fleeing families filled television screens. Some openly wept while desc...
By Akhtar Pathan KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — Fragile mediation efforts toward a peace deal since the April 8 ceasefire, which followed 40 days of sustained U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, have seen many twists and turns, periodic escalations and sudden diplomatic roadblocks. But U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest somersault — demanding that all...
By Akhtar Pathan KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — The Muslim world should avoid placing all of its strategic and economic dependence on a single global bloc and instead position itself within an emerging multipolar order in which the 57 Muslim-majority states could collectively wield significant geopolitical and economic influence, according to Paki...
By Iftikhar Gilani GAZIANTEP, Türkiye (MNTV) — In ancient southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep, where copper craftsmen still hammer trays by hand, and the aroma of pistachio baklava drifts through centuries-old bazaars, Türkiye is preparing to launch an ambitious culinary diplomacy initiative aimed at turning food into a tool of global influ...
