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...

FIA requests formation of JIT in Supreme Court to probe money laundering scam

News Analysis | The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has claimed to have tracked down Rs33 billion trail, in a major breakthrough, in a crucial investigation...

Khadim Rizvi, an opportunist?

News Analysis | Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a religious political party, has once again decided to come at roads and "stay on the streets until either...

The National bank of Pakistan, reaching new heights

News Analysis | The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has signed two Memorandum of Understanding with Mobi Direct, enabling NBP to become a consortium member...

New PM and democratic evolution

Dr. Zeeshan Khan | Democracy failed exceptionally quickly after independence because Pakistan possessed a weak and fragmented political party that was unable to resolve key...

Tariq Jamali appointed as acting president/CEO of National Bank of Pakistan

News Desk | The Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan has appointed Mr. Tariq Jamali, Senior Executive Vice President as the Acting President/Chief Executive Officer of...