Hard, soft and Brino: The Brexit glossary

AFP | Britain's long goodbye to the European Union often seems to be spoken in unintelligible code. Most know the process as Brexit a child...

Maduro vs. Guaido: Who is backing whom?

AFP | Venezuela has been receiving massive attention from the international community since National Assembly chief Juan Guaido declared himself acting interim president of Venezuela....

Why does PML-N want government to create South Punjab Province?

News Analysis | In an interesting development, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has submitted a constitutional amendment bill in the National Assembly for the creation of...

Khomeini: father of Iran’s Islamic Republic

AFP | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was an austere and charismatic cleric who became an icon of the 21st century for standing against the West and...

No butter, no cream: Vegan rules at French pastry match

AFP | Contestants duking it out at this year's World Pastry Cup in Lyon on Monday had to wrestle with a challenge previously unthinkable in...

58 dead as firefighters search mud on third day after Brazil dam collapse

AFP | Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies left by a dam collapse that...

Canadian envoy sacking shows ‘political interference’: Chinese media

AFP | Chinese state-run media on Monday decried the sacking of Canada's ambassador to Beijing, who was fired after he suggested it would be “great”...

Democracy a farce?

Dr. Zeeshan Khan | Abraham Lincoln defined democracy as ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’. However, he was candid when he...

Trump-Imran meeting possible after Afghan talks: Fawad

News Analysis | Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said that Pakistan’s role in bringing the Taliban to the negotiation table has been appreciated by US...

Apparent breakthrough in Afghan peace talks

Asif Haroon Raja | By the time Barak Obama completed his second term in office, the tenacious battle between the ISAF-ANSF and the Taliban...

Is a slowdown in the Chinese Economy sufficient to end the US-China Trade War?

News Analysis | The World Economic Forum, held in the snow-packed Swiss town of Davos, contemplated various powerful questions for the future. Christine Lagarde, the...

US-Taliban talks: As hopes rise of a deal, what comes next?

AFP | More than 17 years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, Washington and the Taliban appear closer than ever to some sort of agreement...