North Korea holds 70th anniversary parade, without ICBMs

AFP | North Korea refrained from displaying its intercontinental missiles in a massive military parade through Pyongyang celebrating its 70th birthday Sunday -- a conspicuous...

Jack Ma to unveil succession plans, not imminent retirement: SCMP

AFP | Alibaba co-founder and chairman Jack Ma will unveil a succession plan on Monday, the South China Morning Post reported Sunday, with a company...

Asian markets hit by fresh trade fears after Trump comments

AFP | Donald Trump's latest threat to impose tariffs on all Chinese imports sent Asian markets tumbling Monday on growing fears of an all-out trade...

Re-opened Iraqi railway a sign of progress

AFP | The newly revived railway between Baghdad and Fallujah snakes across the western Iraqi desert, through a landscape of burned-out tanks, abandoned cars and...

US foreign policy a tug of war between Trump, staff

AFP | A secret "resistance" is working from within to cushion the United States from Donald Trump's worst instincts, according to damning accounts of his...

Russia strikes, rebel shelling around Syria’s Idlib as powerbrokers meet

AFP | Russian air strikes killed five people in Syria's Idlib Friday, a monitor said, even as the brutal war's top three power brokers discussed...

The power of conscience: Dr. Asim ljaz Khwaja of Harvard Kennedy School resigns in protest

News Analysis | Renowned economist and academician Dr. Atif Mian has said that he had resigned for the sake of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government's stability,...

Top Police cadre shuffled

News Analysis | The government on Friday, September 7th, shuffled top police officers in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, local media reported. Muhammad Tahir (PSP,...

Tesla tumbles on new executive departures, Musk interview

AFP | Shares of Tesla Motors tumbled Friday as investors were rattled by the departures of two executives and a late-night interview in which chief...

FM Joint Press Conference: “Pak-China friendship has political, institutional and popular support”

News Analysis | Addressing a joint news conference along with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Islamabad on Saturday, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said,”...

Michael Moore’s new film a call to action for democracy

AFP | Filmmaker Michael Moore calls on Americans to take back their democracy in his new documentary "Fahrenheit 11/9" exploring Donald Trump's ascension to the...

Day of embarrassment for PTI & Imran Khan? – Haider Mehdi

Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | Yesterday was a harrowing and embarrassing day for Imran and PTI. Barely 20 days in and they tasted the angry and...