FO welcomes fresh talks with Afghan Taliban

News Analysis | The Foreign Office on Monday welcomed a new round of talks between the Afghan Taliban and other international stakeholders expected to be...

Gatekeeper at Japan’s ‘Suicide Forest’ hopes music can save lives

AFP | From his hut on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest", Kyochi Watanabe blasts John Lennon's "Imagine" into the night -- hoping that music...

Fear grips ‘stateless’ millions in India’s Assam

AFP | Indian farmer Nur Mohammed can barely sleep for worrying that his wife might soon be made stateless, put in a detention camp and...

Hidden assets revealed: Government to file a reference against Zardari

News Analysis | In an interesting development the Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry has said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was going...

Pakistan’s journey towards digital transformation

News Desk | Recently, Hamdard Pakistan - a private non-profit research laboratory famous for its Yunani and Ayurvedic medicine - announced its latest move towards...

Weinstein back in court seeking dismissal of sex assault case

AFP | Could Harvey Weinstein, public enemy number one of the #MeToo movement... end up walking away from a free man? On Thursday, the onetime Hollywood...

Bangladesh opposition goes underground as election threats grow

AFP | Subrata Chowdhury, an opposition candidate in the looming Bangladesh election, is too scared to leave his party office as campaign deaths and threats...

Will Nawaz Sharif be arrested again: Court to announce on 24th December

News Analysis | An accountability court has reserved its verdict in the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) Flagship Investment and Al-Azizia references against the ousted Prime...

75% of female students using ‘ice meth’ in universities: Shehryar Afridi

News Desk | The Senate committee on Interior today (Thursday, 20th December,) has sought a report from the Interior Ministry regarding the consumption of ‘ice meth’...

Trump declares victory over IS in Syria, orders US troops home

AFP | The Islamic State group has been "beaten" in Syria, US President Donald Trump said Wednesday in announcing a stunning order to pull American...

PTM MNA’s taken off ECL on Prime Minister’s orders

News Desk | The federal cabinet, under the orders of the Prime Minister, has decided to remove the names of MNAs Mohsin Dawar and Ali...

JS bank tackles climate change at COP24

News Desk | Being responsible to the environment, JS became the first commercial bank in Pakistan to be certified as a Green Office by the...