Iran is not North Korea: Chief of the revolutionary guard responds to Trump’s offer to meet Rouhani
News Analysis | U.S President Donald Trump offered to meet Iran’s President Hasan Rouhani without any preconditions the other day which was rejected by both...
PML (Lahore) and PPP (Larkana)
Farid A Malik | Both dominant political entities, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and Pakistan People’s party (Bhutto) have been cut down to size. PPP was...
Indian women shelters closed as massive cases of abuse and disappearances emerge
News Analysis | Police in eastern India have sealed a shelter for destitute women amid reports that 11 of the women are missing, police said...
Target is corruption
Farid A Malik | Shehbaz Sharif is right — we have gone back by thirty years and the era of corruption started by the third...
US ‘crypto-anarchist’ sees 3D-printed guns as fundamental right
AFP | The US "crypto-anarchist" who caused panic this week by publishing online blueprints for 3D-printed firearms said Wednesday that whatever the outcome of a...
Pakistan cement industry earns US$222.84m at Financial Year End
News Analysis | Pakistan cement industry observed a positive growth of 0.9 per cent and a contraction of -6.3 per cent in terms of quantity...
NAB to file reference against Yousuf Raza Gilani over alleged misuse of authority
News Analysis | The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to file a reference against the former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani. The accountability...
Shah Mehmood Qureshi set to be foreign minister once again
News Analysis | Pakistan’s latest general elections on 25th of July, 2018 have been a first in many ways. Apart from a new party coming...
Kosovo rape survivors battle ‘code of silence’ for recognition
AFP | Raped during Kosovo's war for independence, Zana and thousands of other women are now eligible for financial aid from the government a victory...
Massive corruption scandal rocks Belarus healthcare
AFP | A massive corruption scandal has rocked the health service of ex-Soviet Belarus, leading even officials in the country dubbed "Europe's last dictatorship" to...
France adopts law on asylum, immigration
AFP | France's parliament Wednesday signed into law a controversial asylum and immigration bill -- despite opposition on the left which decried an effort to...
Afghan child bride killed by husband in revenge: officials
AFP | An Afghan child forced to marry a man at least twice her age in a traditional bridal exchange has been tortured to death...