Ruby rush brings ‘hell’, not riches, to Mozambique village

AFP | Nearly a decade after rubies was first found in northern Mozambique, the discovery has proven a poisoned chalice, says traditional local ruler Cristina...

Economy – No heroics please!

Dr. Kamal Monnoo | A couple of weeks before the elections we had to call an emergent distributors meeting at our company offices as the...

Mexico marks twin anniversaries of deadly quakes

AFP | Mexico marks the anniversaries Wednesday of two deadly earthquakes: one that devastated the country last year, claiming 369 lives, and another that killed...

US bases must be closed, say Taliban

News Analysis | Taliban leaders are calling for US bases in Afghanistan to be closed down, sources say. They are also demanding the release of...

Government likely to announce the increase in gas prices today

News Analysis | Amid the political and the public backlash, PTI led coalition government is expected to take a critical decision on gas tariffs today...

Shahbaz contemplating another extension in parole till chehlum of Begum Kulsoom

News Analysis | The former Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is mulling ways to re-extend the five-day parole of the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his...

Machines will do more tasks than humans by 2025: WEF

AFP | Robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks by 2025, almost twice as many as now, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study...

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...
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