‘The new oil’: Dublin strikes it rich as Europe’s data hub
AFP | A new industrial revolution is underway on the outskirts of Dublin. Fortunes are being made in clusters of anonymous warehouses housing vast data...
Trump had hoped to meet Imran Khan at Davos? – Dr. Moeed Pirzada
Moeed Pirzada | World Economic Forum (WEF) top management kept hoping till the very end that Pakistani PM, Imran Khan, may be persuaded to join...
Into the arena for camel wrestling in Turkey
AFP | Erol Bilgin has high hopes. His camel, Kara Elmas (Black Diamond), might not have won the beauty contest the day before, but it...
Embattled Murad Ali Shah escapes disqualification as SC dismisses petition
News Analysis | Supreme Court of Pakistan has dismissed a petition seeking the disqualification of Chief Minister Sindh Mr. Syed Murad Ali Shah. The petition sought...
US federal employees protest against shutdown costing them their pay
AFP | Several hundred US federal employees who have not been paid in weeks due to the partial government shutdown protested against the impasse on...
Nigeria: Africa’s top oil producer, world’s extreme poverty capital
AFP | In the Ago Egun Bariga area of Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, there is no road, no electricity, no running water and no rubbish...
A stitch in time to save Egypt’s ancient tentmaking craft
AFP | Mohsen al-Khayami has for years watched sadly as his once lucrative craft business dwindled and fellow artisans deserted the ancient art known as...
National action plan against drugs addiction
Abdul Rasool Syed | Sadly, Drugs addiction is surging at an exponential rate in our country. It has engulfed our people especially the young generation...
India’s long game revealed & omens are bad for Pakistan
Jan Achakzai | While faced with new costs and opportunities for engaging major stakeholders on Afghan reconciliation, Pakistan should not ignore or underestimate India’s spoiling...
Govt shuts down used car imports
News Desk | Local car importers have expressed dissatisfaction over the Commerce Division of the government of Pakistan’s decision to term payment of the duty...
Players’ Skewed Maps complicate Eurasia’s 21st Century Great Game – Dr. James M Dorsey
Dr. James M Dorsey | The United States and China are playing Eurasia’s 21st-century Great Game from different but equally skewed maps. While the US...
“China ready to accept Taliban as a political force”, says Chinese envoy to Pakistan
News Analysis | Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing, while talking in a conference at Peshawar University, has said that his country is ready to...