Pakistan drop struggling Amir from Australia Tests

AFP | Pakistan on Thursday left out struggling pace spearhead Mohammad Amir from the 17-member squad for the two-match Test series against Australia starting in...

Indian Supreme Court: Temples must allow entry to women of all ages

AFP | India's top court on Friday revoked a ban on women entering a famous Hindu temple following a decades-long legal battle, ruling that patriarchy...

Iran’s FM rejects Israeli allegations of “atomic warehouse”

AFP | Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday dismissed Israeli claims that Tehran was harbouring a secret atomic warehouse. "No arts & craft show...

Canada strips Aung San Suu Kyi of honorary citizenship

AFP | Canada's parliament voted unanimously on Thursday to effectively strip Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship over the Rohingya...

New UN panel to prepare indictments over Myanmar atrocities

AFP | The UN Human Rights Council voted Thursday to set up a panel to prepare criminal indictments over atrocities committed in Myanmar, amid allegations...

National embarrassment; Indian Air vice Chief shoots himself

News Desk | Indian Air Force (IAF) Air vice Chief Air Marshal SB Deo was rushed to a military hospital on Wednesday after he accidentally shot...

Is Zulfi Bukhari’s appointment Illegal?

News Analysis | The appointment of Zulfi Bukhari has been challenged in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan appointed...

US-China ties sour as Xi, Trump friendship fades

AFP | For more than a year, Chinese leader Xi Jinping could count on one thing even as his government clashed with the United States...

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...