Salt crusts crackle underfoot as Habibullah Khatti walks to his mother's grave to say a final goodbye before he abandons his parched island village on Pakistan's Indus delta. Khatti is preparing to ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian ...

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The mysterious Harappan civilization is considered the third oldest in the ancient East after that of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Then World Bank President Eugene Black believed the Indus accord had headed off water conflicts that otherwise could have driven India and Pakistan into war. Often characterized as a “divorce ...

The suspension of the 1960 World Bank-brokered treaty would mean India would stop the water supply of Indus River and its tributaries — the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Satluj — to Pakistan ...

The Indus River has supported life for thousands of years since the Harappan civilization, which flourished around 2600 to 1900 B.C.E. in what is now Pakistan and northwest India.