China, Canada diplomatic row escalates with death sentence

AFP | A diplomatic spat between Beijing and Ottawa intensified on Tuesday as Canada warned its citizens of the risk of "arbitrary enforcement" of laws...

Mari Gas: The oil & gas giant helping build a better nation

News Desk | Looking at the energy and oil sector of Pakistan, it is hard to miss Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL). With 18% market...

Taliban claim Kabul truck bomb attack, warn more to follow

AFP | The Taliban on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a powerful truck bomb attack in Kabul that ripped through surrounding neighbourhoods, killing at least four...

Imran blasts opposition for NA walkouts

News Desk | Prime Minister Imran Khan has criticized the opposition parties’ partial boycott of the National Assembly proceedings and termed it a pressure tactic...

NAB: The only casualty in ‘war of words’

News Desk | Asif Ali Zardari, PPP co-chairman, on Monday said that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman should appear before the parliament in person,...

How close was US to attack Iran?

News Analysis | In September 2018, White House asked Pentagon to come up with a plan for striking Iran after an Iran backed Shiite militia...

‘Sister’s Day’: Can University of Faisalabad reform Valentine’s Day?

News Analysis| A Pakistani university is rebranding Valentine's Day as "Sister's Day", and debating marking the holiday widely seen as a Western import by handing...

Temple conflict: Right wingers threaten Indian heroic women

AFP | Bindu Ammini and Kanakadurga are living on the run since infuriating Hindu traditionalists by entering one of India's holiest temples that for generations...

Qatar rejects normalising ties with ‘criminal’ Assad

AFP| Qatar's foreign minister ruled out on Monday the possibility of re-opening an embassy in Damascus, in line with some other Gulf countries, calling Syrian...

Political monopolies damaging democracy in Pakistan – Farid A Malik

Dr. Farid A Malik | During his speech in 1966, President John F. Kennedy quoted a Chinese curse, ‘May you live in interesting times’. He...

Iran to launch two satellites in ‘coming days’

AFP| Iran's president said Monday the Islamic republic plans to launch two domestically made satellites into orbit in the "coming days" to gather information on...

Celebrating without cause? – Saad Rasool

Saad Rasool | Earlier in the week, as reported, the honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan referred the JIT Report (regarding money laundering by Asif Zardari...