ECP issues the final list of presidential candidates

News Analysis | The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued the list of the presidential candidates after the deadline to withdraw their candidature ended...

Notice submitted against CM Usman Buzdar in Punjab Assembly

News Analysis | Sardar Usman Buzdar, Chief Minister of Punjab, is facing public backlash for his allegedly lavish lifestyle. Yesterday a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)...

Mexico’s US trade deal a win-win for president-elect

AFP |  It is still early to declare winners and losers in the new US-Mexican trade deal, but in Mexico it looks like an unexpected...

World leaders ignore rights in China: censored author Yan

AFP | Chinese author Yan Lianke, whose works are banned in his heavily censored homeland, has urged world leaders not to shy away from confronting...

Fawad Chaudhry: I googled the Heli-rates

News Analysis | Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has found himself in a fix with his absurd Helicopter fuel consumption claim. Following the social media ‘meme...

Russia to hold biggest military drills since Cold War

AFP | Russia will next month flex its military muscles and hold the biggest war games since the Cold War era, with almost 300,000 troops...

What to expect from the visit by US Secretary of State

News Analysis | Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State of the US, the counterpart to Pakistan’s foreign minister, is all set to visit Islamabad next...

Russia’s Kalashnikov branches out from rifles to robots and e-cars

AFP | A recent pledge by Kalashnikov to compete with Elon Musk's Tesla with a Russian retro "electric supercar" drew chuckles, but the legendary gun...

The love-hate Khan relationship – Saad Rasool

Saad Rasool | Politics has a weird way of distributing people into ideological camps. ‘Ideological’ here is being used as a concession to describe the...

Sheikh Rasheed’s Ministerial days are not going well

News Analysis | Minister of Railways Sheikh Rasheed got involved in a dispute with local traders after a traffic warden knocked over parked motorcycles to...

Pakistani soldier who spent 40 years in Indian Jails passes away

News Desk | 1965 war veteran Sepoy Maqbool Hussain passed away at Combined Military Hospital Attock on Tuesday 28th August. In the latest news from...

China’s Didi apologises for safety lapses after murder

AFP | China ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing issued an apology Tuesday for a string of lapses that led to the rape and murder of a...