IMF programmes, institutional quality and export performance – Omer Javed

Dr. Omer Javed | In 2008, the then PPP led coalition government found itself in need of obtaining foreign exchange cushion to build up country’s...

Law Minister refuses to comment on High Treason case against Pervez Musharraf

News Analysis | Farogh Naseem, Minister for Law and Justice, has refused to comment on the case of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf. Mr. Naseem...

Turkey desperately trying to prevent the fallout from Idlib

News Analysis | Turkey has increased its efforts to divert or at least de-escalate the upcoming belligerence of Syrian Army, coupled with the Russian air...

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is neither honest nor truthful, detailed verdict of Appellate Tribunal

News Analysis | In an interesting development, an appellate tribunal at the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday issued its detailed...

Mari Gas discovers oil in Baluchistan, stock prices shoot up

News Desk | Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) informed the Pakistan Stock exchange that they have discovered significant deposits of crude oil in the exploratory...

Ex-Trump aide Manafort to cooperate in Russia probe

AFP | President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort agreed Friday to cooperate in the Russia collusion investigation in a plea deal that left...

Japan’s commercial whaling bid rejected by IWC

AFP | Japan's determined bid to return to commercial whale hunting was rejected by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Friday in a tense vote that exposed...

Indian army has crossed all limits of cruelty in Indian Occupied Kashmir – Mustansar Hussain Tasir

Mustansar Hussain Tasir | Indian forces on September 13, 2018, as a part of their incessant campaign of terror and mayhem, took lives of eight Kashmiri youngsters...

Pope in Sicily to honour priest killed by mafia

AFP | Pope Francis visits the Italian island of Sicily on Saturday to pay homage to a priest murdered by the mafia 25 years ago...

Growing army influence on Brazilian elections causes a stir

AFP | With an ex-army captain leading polls, a reserve general picked as his running mate, and a military chief sticking his nose into the...

Bilateralism between India and Pakistan

Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani | Relations between India and Pakistan continue to be bedevilled for the last 71 years. It is because the ‘nationalists of...

Freedom of speech and blasphemous caricatures – Dr. Zeeshan Khan

Dr. Zeeshan Khan | From a few weeks a serious issue i.e.'blasphemy' was the talk of the town. Pakistan has succeeded in stopping the contest...