BISP collaborates with Nestlé to launch “Rural Livelihood Programme”

News Analysis | The launching ceremony of the ‘Rural Sales Program’ was held on Friday, by the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in collaboration with...

Catalonia: a new regional government finally in sight?

AFP | Catalonia's majority separatist parliament is preparing to appoint a new regional president hand-picked by deposed leader Carles Puigdemont, who from exile told Quim...

Israel and Iran showering each other with missiles

News Analysis | Iran used a multiple-barrel vehicle mounted single rocket launcher to target the Israeli defense positions in the occupied Golan Heights region two...

Mob Justice: Woman lynched in Tamil Nadu

News Analysis | A 65-year-old woman was lynched by a mob in southern India who believed that she was a child trafficker, police said on...

Russian Facebook ‘ads’ show strong effort to divide US society

AFP | Thousands of Facebook and Instagram advertisements taken out by a Russian internet group were released Thursday in a database that illustrates how a...

Female ban during Nigerian festival causes uproar

AFP | An order from a Nigerian traditional ruler forbidding women from being in public during a festival this week has sparked a lively debate...

Crimes on women: Third girl burned and raped in India

News Analysis | A teenage girl has been raped and burned alive in India, in the third such attack in a week in the country....

Australian Scientist commits assisted suicide in Switzerland

AFP | A 104-year-old Australian scientist on Thursday committed assisted suicide in Switzerland where he went to die after his home country denied him the...

PM Abbasi-the owner of Airblue-summoned by SC in pilots’ fake degrees case

News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan has summoned heads of all Pakistani airlines as well as Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi--the head of Airblue-...

Witch-hunt or a blunder?

Waqas Shabbir | After the Supreme Court beleaguered Nawaz, he is at loggerheads with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Despite Chairman NAB’s assurance that the...

Israel-Iran flare-up raises spectre of major confrontation

AFP | Deadly strikes by Israel against alleged Iranian sites in Syria have raised fears of a dramatic escalation in the regional conflict, but the...

The challenge of space gardening: One giant ‘leaf’ for mankind

AFP | It's not easy having a green thumb in space. Without gravity, seeds can float away. Water doesn't pour, but globs up and may...