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...

US, Canada set for talks to revise NAFTA

AFP | With a deal with Mexico out of the way, US trade officials are due to resume talks with Canada on Tuesday to try...

How the Venezuelan migration crisis affects South America

AFP | Venezuela has seen a mass exodus of citizens fleeing poverty, hyperinflation, failing public services and shortages of basic necessities. Here, AFP looks at how...

The ticklish history and process of electing Pakistan’s President

Muhammad Zahid Rifat | Pakistan is electing its 16th President on the 4th of September, 2018 as the incumbent Head of the State Mamnoon Hussain...

After driving ban ends, Saudi Women taste thrill of speed

AFP | Donning a helmet inside a pearl silver sports sedan, Rana Almimoni skids and drifts around a Riyadh park, engine roaring, tires screeching and...

Will PPP support Maulana Fazlur Rehman to become President?

News Analysis | Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), is confident that he is going to be the joint presidential candidate of the...

Opposition fields Maulan Fazal-ur-Rehman for President

News Analysis |  The JUI-F chief has submitted his nomination papers as a candidate fielded by the PML-N, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Awami National Party, Pakhtunkhwa Milli...

Can PTI’s flamboyant Ministers bring a much-needed change in Punjab?

News Analysis | The new Punjab cabinet will take oath at Governor House in Lahore, today. The ceremony is scheduled for 5 pm today. The acting...

Why Donald Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy isn’t much different from Barack Obama’s – M K Bhadrakumar

M K Bhadrakumar | United States President Donald Trump’s much-awaited policy speech on the way forward in Afghanistan was disappointing. It neither fulfilled his campaign...

The superflous debate about UAE aid offer to Kerala is diverting attention from reconstruction work

M K Bhadrakumar | It was three decades ago that a senior American diplomat Robin Raphel, who had served in New Delhi in the early...

Who siphoned off Dr. Aafia Siddiqui US$ 2 million dollars legal representative fees?

Dawood Ghazanavi | On 23rd May 2018, Pakistan Consul General, Houston Miss Ayesha Farooqui made consular visit to Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in FMC Carswell, prison,...

Beginning of a new Government – Dr. Zafar Jaspal

Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | Prime Minister Imran Khan’s cabinet has started working. The ministers are making promising announcements. The critics seem unconvinced with the...