‘Sultan of Coins’: Iran executes gold market launderer and accomplice
AFP | Iran executed a trader dubbed the "Sultan of Coins" and his accomplice on Wednesday for exploiting a surge in gold demand from savers...
British PM using Brexit for political survival
AFP | Lurching from crisis to crisis and fending off coup plots while navigating Britain's most important peacetime negotiations, Theresa May has defied the odds...
Aasia cannot leave Pakistan due to pending review: Qureshi
News Desk | Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Aasia Bibi, who has been acquitted of a blasphemy charge by the Supreme Court,...
Trump lashes Macron as Europe moves on defense without US
AFP | Donald Trump on Tuesday unleashed an extraordinary attack on Emmanuel Macron, mocking the French president's approval rating and lashing him over European defense...
Are Nawaz Sharif & Khaqan Abbasi traitors?
News Desk | A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has adjourned the hearing of a petition seeking start of treason proceedings against...
Indian court to review women entering flashpoint temple
AFP | India's top court Tuesday agreed to hear challenges to its decision to overturn a ban on women of menstruating age from entering a...
Baluchistan: The target of fifth generation warfare
Abdul Rasool Syed | Baluchistan, the El-dorado of Pakistan and a province of highly geo-strategic, geo-economic and geo-political importance seems to be witnessing fifth generation warfare....
Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur cherishes dual role after record feat
AFP | Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim said he enjoyed his dual role in the team as wicketkeeper and batsman after scoring a record double hundred against...
Facebook shuts more accounts aimed at political meddling
AFP | Facebook on Tuesday said it shut down more accounts aimed at influencing the US midterm election and that it is exploring a possible...
Deadly Smog: ‘lungs’ turn sickly brown in days
AFP | A pair of artificial lungs put up in New Delhi to demonstrate the lethal effects of smog have turned a sickly dark brown...
As US retreats, China touts its trade deal wares to Asia
AFP | China is touting itself as the new defender of global commerce as it works with Asia-Pacific leaders to hammer out the world's largest...
Thousands of Afghans flee fighting in Hazara districts
AFP | Thousands of Afghans have fled to Ghazni city to escape fighting in two Hazara-dominated districts, with some describing the violence Tuesday as the...