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....

The Weather and Your Mood

Falak Zehra Mohsin | A violent monsoon hit Karachi last year and whilst we heard a lot about the material impact of the heavy rains,...

NAB responds after government’s rebuttal

News Analysis | After scathing allegations of witch-hunting on the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) from Punjab Chief Minister of Punjab, Shehbaz Sharif and the incumbent...

Suicide bombers, gunmen attack Kabul police stations

AFP | Suicide bombers and gunmen launched apparently coordinated attacks on two Kabul police stations Wednesday, killing at least five people, with security forces still...

The Game-Changers

Ikram Sehgal | With US President Trump scrapping the Iran nuclear deal and re-imposing sanctions, the possibility of conflict in the region has increased dramatically....

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...