Diaa Hadid

The world's two most populous countries — India and China — are missing from the expanded 48-team men's World Cup, highlighting corruption, bureaucratic rot and youth sports culture.

The world's two most populous countries — India and China — are missing from the expanded 48-team men's World Cup, highlighting corruption, bureaucratic rot and youth sports culture.

Pakistan urges restraint as Iran and the U.S. clash and a memorandum of understanding unravels.

Pakistan urges restraint as Iran and the U.S. clash and a memorandum of understanding unravels.

A metro line in Pakistan's second-largest city has transformed a city and the lives of the women who ride it.

A metro line in Pakistan's second-largest city has transformed a city and the lives of the women who ride it.

Pakistan went from fearing Trump's reelection to becoming a key U.S.-Iran peacemaker, though severe domestic instability threatens these gains.

The U.S. and Iran have resumed striking each other for more that a week, ever since the collapse of a ceasefire deal over control of the Strait of Hormuz. Pakistan, the country that helped mediate the first ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is being asked to play the same role again. We look at how this peace role represents a remarkable turn of fortune for Pakistan.And if Pakistan is able to negotiate a new ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, will Iranian hardliners allow it to go into place? Do they have the clout to stop it? We examine were hardliners fall in the current Iranian regime.

Pakistan went from fearing Trump's reelection to becoming a key U.S.-Iran peacemaker, though severe domestic instability threatens these gains.

A metro line in Pakistan is transforming the lives of women who ride it and maybe the political fortunes of the woman who governs the city and its province.