Caretaker Federal Cabinet takes oath at Aiwan-e-Sadr

News Analysis | A six-member caretaker federal cabinet sworn in at a ceremony held at the President house Islamabad on Tuesday. President Mamnoon Hussain administered the...

Can judicial activism pave way for construction of Kalabagh dam?

News Analysis | Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Monday took suo motu notice of the water shortage in the country after social media campaigns and countless...

ECP nullifies postings which allegedly favored PML-N

News Analysis | On Monday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) nullified all the postings and promotions after the issuance of the election program. The ECP’s...

Iran’s supreme leader warns Europe of nuclear ‘dream’

AFP | Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday warned European leaders against their "dream" of Tehran continuing to curb its nuclear programme while...

The two ends of Shahrah-e-Quaid

Farid A Malik | The Mall Road Lahore which has now been renamed as Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam is the most historic thoroughfare of the country. On one...

Facebook ‘not aware of any abuse’ of data by phone makers

AFP | Facebook said Monday that it does not know of any privacy abuse by cellphone makers who years ago were able to gain access...

NISP 2018: missing the point

Imtiaz Gul | The new national security policy (NISP 2018) released recently by former Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal, is a welcome step insofar as the...

First Trump-Kim meeting scheduled for June 12

AFP | The White House said on Monday that the first meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take...

The emergency destruction of American liberty

JACOB G. HORNBERGER | Emergencies are the time-honoured method by which people lose their freedom. That’s because public officials use emergencies as a way to...

Jordanian protests: Revisiting the Arab Spring and setting a benchmark

James M Dorsey | Protests that forced Jordan’s prime minister to resign and laid bare the country’s systemic economic and political crisis shed a new...

Caretaker Government is responsible for load shedding: Nawaz Sharif

News Desk | Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that now the caretaker government is fully responsible for load shedding. “We are only responsible...

The Constitutional Matrix of FATA

Saad Rasool | Earlier this week, the National Assembly, in its dying days, has passed a historic piece of legislation, which has been long overdue....