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...
Trump claims credit for stopping assault on Syria’s Idlib
AFP | President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed credit for saving Syria's rebel-held province of Idlib from an assault that would have "killed millions of...
Why Americans choose state over liberty – Jacob G. Hornberger
Jacob G. Hornberger | There is no question but that the 20th and, so far, the 21st centuries have been the centuries of socialism for...
PM Khan to launch “Pakistan Cleanliness Movement” next month
News Analysis | Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday approved a groundbreaking project named “Re-Charge Pakistan” for better management and utilization of flood waters to...
No deal: Why is Shahbaz at pains to explain Nawaz’s release?
News Analysis | President of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Shahbaz Sharif has clarified that Nawaz Sharif’s bail from the Islamabad High Court, in connection...