US-EU rift cracks wide open over Iran sanctions
AFP | Tensions between the United States and the European Union over Iran soared into the open Tuesday after the Europeans announced plans for a...
LHC turns down PAT’s request to summon Sharifs in Model Town case
News Analysis | The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday, 26th September, has turned down Pakistan Awami Tehreek‘s (PAT) plea that sought to summon ex-prime minister Nawaz...
SC accepts Pervez Musharraf’s demands:” Hor Dasso Ki Chahyda Ae ”
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan has once again given an opportunity to the former president and military dictator Pervez Musharraf to return...
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...
Can President Arif Alvi reclaim his plot, grabbed during China-cutting?
News Analysis | A group of land mafia grabbed and sold President Arif Alvi’s 400 square yard plot in Karachi. In 2017, Arif Alvi submitted...
Global watchdog takes Saudi Arabia to task for lax anti-terrorism finance measures – James M Dorsey
James M Dorsey | A Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report criticizing Saudi Arabia’s anti-money laundering and terrorism finance measures puts the kingdom on the...
The art of Diplomacy – M Zafar Khan Safdar
M Zafar Khan Safdar | I still remember my professor Iqbal Tajik who during a lecture on diplomacy in the postgraduate class back in the...
Has PM Khan’s Citizenship suggestion revealed ethnic nature of Pak politics?
News Analysis | Opposition parties bashed at the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for its reckless and ‘irresponsible’ statement over the issues of refugees and citizenship....
Election Rigging: Parliamentary Committee formed
News Analysis | The president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Shahbaz Sharif on Monday put forward the names of the four-member team to a parliamentary committee that...