MQM London: Target killer among 2 killed in police encounter
News Analysis | Two alleged robbers, including an MQM-London hitman, were killed in separate shootouts with police in Central and West districts of Karachi this...
“Give me three months before you criticize the government,” PM Khan asks media
News Analysis | Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked media to give his government at least three months before criticizing it. PM Khan said this...
Article 35-A: Indian SC defers hearing to January 2019 as IOK shuts down
News Analysis | The Supreme Court on Friday deferred to January 2019 the hearing over a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Article...
Senator Azam Khan Swati of PTI wants a forensic audit of RTS failure
News Analysis | Senator Azam Khan Swati, a leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, has demanded on Friday to conduct a forensic audit of Result Transmission System (RTS)...
China-Africa summit to target investment despite debt worries
AFP | African leaders will gather in Beijing Monday for a summit focused on economic ties, granting China a feel-good photo opportunity as it comes...
Gangster-turned-lawmaker is new face of Mexican politics
AFP | Pedro Carrizales's body is a hodge-podge of scars and tattoos that tell the story of how he went from street-gang thug to Mexican...
Imran Khan’s Naya Pakistan! – Haider Mehdi
Syed Raza Haider Mehdi | This is not a comprehensive review of Imran and PTI's barely 7 days in office. While the dung beetles will head...
Digitalization; a need of the hour with massive challenges
Rizwan M Mir | With the current market push towards a digital economy, every enterprise is exploring ways to move with the change. Like private...
Court blocks construction of Canada pipeline to Pacific
AFP | A Canadian court on Thursday quashed the government's approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline to the Pacific, siding with indigenous people worried that...
Pakistan closes its consulate in Jalalabad over unnecessary intervention and security reasons
News Analysis | Pakistan Embassy in Afghanistan has announced to close its consulate in the Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province. The reason cited for...
US ends funding for UN Palestinian refugee agency
AFP | The United States announced it was halting funding for the United Nations' agency for Palestinian refugees Friday after declaring the organization was irredeemably...
Plutocracy and poverty in Pakistan
Omer Javed | Mental constructs matter. Path dependencies solidify such thinking patterns. Some kind of belief system exists in every society. People have drawn from...