Dr. Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau: “Mother Teresa of Pakistan”
News Desk | Dr Ruth a German-born physician and nun of the Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (born 9 September 1929) dedicated her...
Shahbaz Sharif demands Parliamentary committee probe into election rigging
News Analysis | In a press briefing after meeting his elder brother Nawaz Sharif, the former Chief Minister of Punjab and current leader of the...
Saudi Arabia and Iran woo incoming Pakistani prime minister
James M Dorsey | An offer by a Saudi-backed bank to lend financially strapped Pakistan US$4 billion is likely intended to bolster Saudi influence when former international...
Will the PTI-MQM-P rocky relationship survive?
News Analysis | Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Khawaja Izharul Hasan has opposed the possible nomination of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Karachi President Shamim Naqvi as leader...
Elections 1977 and 2018: A comparison – Farid A Malik
Dr. Farid A Malik | I have the honor and privilege of voting in all national elections since 1977. During my study period in the USA,...
Does money dominate the outcome of the electoral process?
Saad Rasool | As we settle our democratic nerves, in the post-election scenario, all energies (of media personnel and political operatives) have been focused on...
Opposition parties stage protest in Islamabad; defeated Maulana Fazlur Rehman bashes at ECP
News Analysis | The political parties which could not perform well in the General Elections 2018 staged a protest in front of the Election Commission...
Potentially huge oil reserves discovered in Balochistan
News Analysis | We may be on the verge of a huge oil discovery in our most-resource rich province, Balochistan. On Tuesday, Micheal Kugelman, Deputy...
Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia claimed over 400 lives
AFP | The day that Soviet-led armies rolled into communist Czechoslovakia to put an end to a pro-democracy movement changed Milan Tesar's life. "I saw...
Soviet army nearly ‘battled’ US filmmakers in Prague Spring
AFP | Propaganda-fuelled Soviet soldiers were ready to take on American and German armies during the 1968 invasion of former Czechoslovakia -- before they realized...
Palestinian-American positioned to be first Muslim woman in US Congress
AFP | Rashida Tlaib, a mother of two and daughter of Palestinian immigrants once detained for disrupting a Donald Trump speech, made history on Wednesday,...
Indonesia quake toll jumps to 164, survivors wait for aid
AFP | The devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok was "exceptionally destructive" and wiped out entire villages in the worst-hit regions, relief agencies...