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...
By Akhtar Pathan KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — At just 18, hijab-clad Pakistani fighter Rabia Noor has turned adversity into motivation, overcoming poverty, stereotypes and resistance to compete internationally and emerge as a symbol of determination for young girls in her country. Armed with determination, discipline and unwavering faith, the yo...
Iftikhar Gilani ISTANBUL, Türkiye (MNTV) — Held between May 5 and 9, SAHA 2026 became one of the largest defense and aerospace exhibitions ever organized in Türkiye. Turkish defense and aerospace companies signed approximately 182 agreements and memorandums of understanding during the exhibition, generating a record business volume approaching...
Mushfiq Ahmed KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — Pakistan’s hospitals are running on exhausted hands. In overcrowded wards, a single nurse may have to care for dozens of patients during one shift, moving from bed to bed administering medication, checking vital signs, comforting anxious families, and responding to emergencies with little pause. Yet d...
By Akhtar Pathan KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — In Pakistan, politics is often viewed as an exclusive arena reserved for wealthy families, entrenched elites, and those backed by the country’s powerful establishment. Leadership is inherited more often than cultivated, and moral politics is frequently dismissed as idealism with little place in the r...
By Akhtar Pathan TEHRAN, Iran (MNTV) — Tehran-based journalist Mohammad John Hussain is warning audiences to treat repeated claims of an imminent Iran-United States agreement with caution, arguing that many reports of a breakthrough are driven more by speculation, market psychology and political narratives than by verified developments. For we...
By Iftikhar Gilani ISTANBUL, Turkiye (MNTV) — The first thing that strikes you as you step into the Istanbul Expo Centre is not the size, though it is vast, nor the noise, though it hums with thousands of conversations in dozens of languages. It is the sense that you are walking into a world that […]
