Texas school gunman ‘confused’: lawyer

AFP | The gunman accused of killing 10 people and wounding 13 at a Texas high school last week was in a state of mental...

Soft Hindutva: Indian Vice President claims ancient Indians invented cataract and plastic surgery

News Analysis | Indian history is replete with those who have significantly advanced human knowledge, with surgeons from ancient India capable of performing complex medical...

Saudi Arabia urged not to turn Iraq into ‘cold war’ front with Iran

AFP | Saudi Arabia should avoid turning Iraq into a "battleground in a cold war" with its regional rival Tehran, the International Crisis Group said...

Texas Muslims mourn slain Pakistani exchange student

AFP | Houston's Muslim community gathered to offer prayers Sunday at the funeral service for a 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting...

Nearly a year since fall of Iraq’s Mosul, hunt for bodies goes on

AFP | Atop an enormous mound of rubble under a blistering sun in Iraq's second city Mosul, fire crews and police chip away at a...

Pakistani exchange student among 10 killed in Texas school shooting

News Analysis | The United States has been suffering from the menace of mass shootings where teenagers bring firearms to their schools and kill their...

PTI’s Plan for first 100 Days: Analyzing its strengths and weaknesses

News Analysis | The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has finally presented its agenda to be completed within the first 100 days of government — if the...

Book Review: Honor by Elif Shafak

News Analysis | “There were many legends about these rocks and behind every legend a story of forbidden love.” ― Elif Shafak, Honor I had heard a lot of...

Will South Punjab be a Province?

Qaiser Sajjad | A great political upheaval has been witnessed in South Punjab during last month when some lawmakers of PMLN elected from South Punjab...

India’s biggest internal threat strikes again

News Analysis | At least six police officials were killed and another was critically injured on Sunday when Maoist rebels targeted their vehicle with a...

PML-N denounces PTI’s first 100-day Plan

News Analysis | Reacting sourly to the Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) ambitious agenda to change policies in the first 100-days of governance , the ruling Pakistan...

The battle for the Iranian nuclear deal: China approaches a watershed

James M. Dorsey | Conventional wisdom has it that China stands to benefit from the US withdrawal from the 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran,...