Pakistan jumps eights spots, India drops seven on World Happiness Index

News Desk | With a jump of eight spots, Pakistan is now ranked 67th on The United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network's annual World Happiness...

New Zealand bans assault weapons less than a week after massacre

AFP | New Zealand is banning the sale of assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons with immediate effect, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday, rapidly making...

Bahria Town succumbs: Rs460bn in exchange for graft case removal

News Desk | The Supreme Court on Thursday, 21st March accepted the troubled Bahria Town Karachi's Rs. 460 billion plea bargain offer in the land...

‘Hello brother’: Words that countered a gunman’s hate

AFP | "Hello brother." The warm-hearted words an elderly Muslim reportedly used to greet a white supremacist gunman have become Christchurch's answer to his volley...

Who would win India’s $5b election?

Amjed Jaaved | Some 814 million voters speaking 1,652 languages will vote in 900,000 voting centres across India over 35 days in the upcoming national...

Iran leader calls economy ‘urgent problem’

AFP | Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the economic difficulties of Iranians the main and most urgent problem of the country in a...

Pak-Malaysia partnership: Dr. Mahathir begins 3-day visit to increase bilateral trade & investment

News Desk | Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohammad is all set to arrive in Islamabad to begin his 3-day visit of Pakistan, scheduled for...

Islamic State will be wiped off map imminently, says Trump

AFP | A bullish US President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that the Islamic State group would be wiped off the map within hours, as he...

White nationalism, born in the USA, is now a global terror threat

Art Jipson & Paul J. Becker | The recent massacre of 50 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand is the latest confirmation that white...

Even if Netanyahu goes, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will continue

Dov Waxman | After a decade in office, Benjamin Netanyahu’s long tenure as Israel’s prime minister may soon be ending. Whether his Likud Party loses power...

Twitterati flays Bilawal’s ‘congratulatory’ message to PM

News Desk | In a sign of what is seen by many as politics of frustration and immaturity, Pakistan People's Party (PPP)’s Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari...

Four ways social media platforms could stop the spread of hateful content in aftermath of terror attacks

Bertie Vidgen | The deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people were killed and many others critically injured, was streamed...