Can Pakistan overcome energy shortage with coal?

AFP | In Pakistan's bleak Thar desert, the roar of trucks is constant at a massive Chinese-backed coal power project the government sees as an...

‘Very serious’: African swine fever spreads in China

AFP | African swine fever has spread rapidly to more than half of China's provinces despite measures to contain it, the government said, warning that...

Uber loss tops $1 bn as it seeks to diversify

AFP | Ride-share company Uber on Wednesday said that its net loss topped a billion dollars in the recently ended quarter as it pumped money...

‘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...
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