Is the agreement to “reset Pak-US” ties enough for the revival of historic relations?
News Analysis | Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met with the U.S President Donald Trump at a reception on the lines of United Nations...
Yemen activist once held by rebels slams UN peace drive as ‘naive’
AFP | A Yemeni activist who was held and allegedly tortured for months by Huthi rebels this week criticised the UN-backed peace process for his...
Indian court upholds legality of world’s largest biometric database
AFP | India's top court Wednesday upheld the legality of the government's Aadhaar national ID scheme, the world's largest biometric database, but imposed new restrictions...
SC upholds Jahangir Tareen’s lifetime disqualification
News Analysis | The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the review petition filed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Khan Tareen against his disqualification...
10 Afghan children, 2 women dead in air strike: UN initial report
AFP | An air strike appears to have killed 12 members of an Afghan family, most of them children, the United Nations said, citing preliminary...
A year of crisis since Iraqi Kurdistan’s bid for independence
AFP | Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan, which votes for a new parliament on Sunday, has endured a year of unrest and open crisis with...
Pashtuns – Caught between Mullah, Militants and the Military – M Zafar Khan Safdar
M Zafar Khan Safdar | With over 50 million people out of 207 million, Pashtuns are the second largest ethnic group covering 25 percent of...
Cricket ‘has no boundaries’ for India-Pakistan superfan friends
AFP | Their governments might not be ready for talks, but that did not stop Pakistan's Mohammad Basheer opening his heart, and his wallet, to...
India shies away again
Muhammad Latif | After gaining simple majority in the National Assembly in General Elections 2018, Chairman Tehreek-e-Insaaf and the to be Prime Minister of Pakistan...
Business Community vows to boycott Indian Products
News Desk | President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Sheikh Amir Waheed has said if Indian leadership did not change its current approach towards...
PTI challenges Shahbaz Sharif for the chairmanship of Public Accounts Committee
News Analysis | The ruling Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are vigorously contesting the all-important chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)....
No decision to grant citizenship to refugees, says Shireen
News Desk | The government has not yet decided to grant citizenship to refugees, said Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari in her policy...