Can PM Imran Khan de-politicize bureaucracy?
News Analysis | Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government is committed to undertaking structural reforms in bureaucracy in order to...
Instagram curbs self-harm posts after teen suicide
AFP | Instagram has announced a clampdown on images of self-injury after a British teen who went online to read about suicide took her own...
Trial of former Catalan leaders: what you need to know
AFP | Twelve former Catalan leaders will go on trial on Tuesday at Spain's Supreme Court in Madrid for their role in Catalonia's failed bid...
Nigeria: African giant struggling with poverty, unrest
AFP | Nigeria, which elects a new president on February 16, is Africa's most populous nation and leading oil producer but is dogged by poverty...
New pressure over Khashoggi death, Trump ignores deadline
AFP | President Donald Trump appeared prepared Friday to ignore the US Congress's deadline to determine who ordered the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi amid new...
‘Hundreds of thousands’ of cattle feared dead after Australia floods
AFP | Hundreds of thousands of cattle weakened from a severe drought are feared to have died in record-breaking floods in northeastern Australia, authorities said...
Zalmay Khalilzad lauds Pakistan’s efforts in Afghan peace process
News Analysis | Afghan-born U.S diplomate and special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, while talking at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), has lauded the role...
Quebec mosque shooter gets life, no parole for 40 years
AFP | A 29-year-old who shot dead six worshipers at a Quebec City mosque in the worst anti-Muslim attack in the West got life in...
From control to facilitation – Farid A Malik
Dr. Farid A Malik | Institutional cultures are almost impossible to change. Institutions designed for control cannot deliver facilitation. There are only four countries (Pakistan,...
Jihadists get life for deadly 2015 Tunisia attacks on tourists
AFP | A Tunisian court has sentenced seven jihadists to life in prison over attacks at a museum and on a beach in 2015 that...
Military courts and hypocrisy of politicians – Ikram Sehgal
Ikram Sehgal | Military courts were established in 2015 during the Nawaz Sharif regime in the aftermath of Army Public School (APS) massacre of 140...
Back to square one – A bid for peace in Afghanistan
Sufian Qazi | In October 2001, after the United States carried out heavy bombing raids on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s...