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...

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...