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...

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...