Tough times for TLP: Hundreds of workers arrested

News Desk | The Punjab Police continued a crackdown on Monday on those involved in rioting, road blocking, damaging public property and injuring people and...

Pakistan re-elected to International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

News Desk | Pakistan won a four-year term (2018-22) on the Administrative Council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at a consensus held in Dubai....

Was PML-N secretly supporting TLP?

News Analysis | Shahbaz Sharif, president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and leader of opposition in the National Assembly, said in a hard tone that...

Will Imran’s Gulf Yatra means serious compromises?

Khurram Minhas | In Indian politics ‘Yatra’ refers to political struggle and robust campaigning for political objectives. Political parties or politicians use ‘Yatra’ as a...

‘Mission Parwaz’ : Fakhr-e-Alam becomes first Pakistani to circumnavigate the world

News Desk | Singer Fakhr-e-Alam has become the first Pakistani to circumnavigate around the world. Alam concluded his 24-day journey named ‘Mission Parwaz' in the...

The Khashoggi crisis: Putting Humpty Dumpty back together – James M. Dorsey

James M. Dorsey | The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and potential Western sanctions against Saudi Arabia have sparked renewed debate about the value of the...

What began with a bang, ended in a whimper – Javed Hassan

Javed Hassan | “We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep...

Religious extremism in Pakistan: Genesis and a way forward

Farah Adeed | “Each society has its régime of truth, its ‘general politics’ of truth: that is, the types of discourse which it accepts and makes...

Nationality, Citizenship & Class in UAE & GCC: Beyond the glitzy Skyscrapers?

Sarmad Ishfaq | Living for more than 3 years in the heart of Dubai, I experienced the city as it presents itself on TV and...

Pakistani porters: the unsung masters of the mountains

AFP | He is the only man ever to have scaled K2 three times, but Fazal Ali's achievements have gone largely unrecognised, like those of...

“Begging”: PTV apologizes for typo in PM Khan’s Beijing speech

News Desk | The state broadcast channel, Pakistan Television has apologized for the typographical error of running "Begging" instead of "Beijing" on the screen along...

Polluted Delhi air akin to death sentence, say doctors

AFP | Yogesh Kumar wheezes after life-saving surgery to remove a diseased lung, but his surgeons wonder how long he can last outside hospital breathing...