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...

Pakistan’s medal-winning female power athlete slams federation for non-support

News Desk | Rabia Shahzad is a medal-winning power athlete from Pakistan. The 20-year-old from Karachi has won medals at international powerlifting competitions including silver...

Assad, Russia envoy discuss Syria constitutional committee

AFP | Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and an envoy from ally Russia on Sunday discussed "removing the obstacles" to forming a constitutional committee demanded by...

Maulana Sami-ul-Haq: end of an era?

News Analysis | Prominent religious scholar and former Senator, Maulana Samiul Haq was stabbed to death by unknown assailants during his sleep at his Rawalpindi...

Government signs an agreement with TLP: State surrender or political necessity?

News Analysis | In an interesting and major breakthrough, the government and Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) reached to an agreement on the eve of Friday to...

“Don’t drag army into everything,” warns DG ISPR

News Desk | The Director-General (DG) of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor made it clear on Friday that Pakistan Army had nothing...

Iran seeks to leverage diplomatic goodwill

AFP | As it braces for the return of a US-enforced oil embargo on Monday, Iran can take comfort in how much stronger its diplomatic...

US details new sanctions in ‘maximum pressure’ hit on Iran economy

AFP | The United States will add 700 individuals and entities to its Iran blacklist and push the SWIFT global banking network to cut Tehran...

Two dead, multiple wounded in US yoga studio shooting: police

News Desk | A gunman killed two people and injured several others at a yoga studio in Florida's state capital Tallahassee before apparently taking his...