Trump and Kim head for historic Singapore summit

AFP | Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump were heading for Singapore on Sunday for an unprecedented summit in an attempt to address the last...

A season for new books

Murtaza Shibli | Apart from the heat generated by the unruly sun, new books are scorching the milieu and pushing the ever-raging debates on Pakistan...

Bollywood star Chopra apologises over ‘Quantico’ Hindu terror plot

AFP | Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra apologised Sunday after a furore over a US TV series that showed her uncovering a terror plot hatched by...

PML-N face challenges in distributing tickets to ‘loyalists’

News Analysis | The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is under huge pressure to ensure that genuine party leaders and trust-worthy electable get the party tickets...

Waking up the neighbours: Indonesia’s Ramadan alarm clocks

AFP | Most of Jakarta is fast asleep at 2:00 am, but for Fajar Ramadan and his pint-sized comrades it's time to wake up the...

Justice for Khadija: A test for the law, the judge and the justice system!

Farah Adeed | Law has many purposes to serve in a given society. Being a formal mean of social control, the law is expected to...

Trump calls Trudeau “weak and dishonest” after refusing to sign G7 joint statement

News Analysis | When the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, was talking to media about the success of the G7 summit which Canada hosted...

Twenty years of nuclearization of South Asia: Lessons, challenges and way forward

Syed Adnan Athar Bukhari | 2018 marks twenty years of nuclearization of South Asia. India, though implicitly conducted its nuclear tests under the garb of...

Years after IS, Syrian Kurds rebuild Kobane alone

AFP | After giving up on getting help from Syrian Kurdish authorities, Ahmed Saleh relied on relatives abroad to repair his home in Kobane after...

Xi Jinping and Putin meet as US tensions brings them closer

AFP | Chinese President Xi Jinping treated Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to a state visit on Friday as the neighbouring giants forge closer ties in...

Disqualified Nawaz asks some interesting questions from the CJP Nisar

News Analysis | The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asked some very interesting questions from the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar....

Who’s getting this? North Korea’s summit bill

AFP | North Korea has a habit of making others pick up its overseas travel tabs, and experts say either Singapore or South Korea is...