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...

NAB arrests Multan metro project director and others on corruption charges

News Analysis | The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has arrested six officials of the Multan Metro Bus Project (MMBP) on Thursday over alleged corruption in...

Foreign Minister visits Kabul

News Analysis | Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the foreign minister of Pakistan, is visiting Afghanistan for a one day trip on Saturday, the 15th of September....

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...

Spanish PM fights back against thesis plagiarism allegation

AFP | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez angrily fought back Thursday against allegations that he plagiarised his doctoral thesis, in the same week his health...