Xi poised to extend power as China set to lift term limits

AFP | Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader for decades, could stay in office indefinitely after the Communist Party called for the removal of presidential...

Will PTI’s decision to grant funds to Darul Uloom Haqqania backfire?

News Analysis | In a seemingly controversial move, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government is expected to release Rs. 227 million for Maulana...

Iraq, Saudi face off in bout of football diplomacy

AFP | Iraq is hosting a football international against Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for the first time in almost four decades, in a friendly encounter...

Samsung’s 2018 flagship Galaxy S9 has arrived

News Analysis | With Apple’s disastrous iPhone X face unlock mishap at the launching ceremony, the deliberate slowing down of its phones and the ignored...

Kylie Jenner shares video glimpse of baby daughter Stormi

News Desk | Kylie Jenner shared a brief video of her newborn daughter Stormi in the latest Snapchat video posted on Sunday in which she...

Is contesting from five seats in the elections the best decision for Imran?

News Analysis | Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Central Punjab President Abdul Aleem Khan announced on Sunday that PTI chief Imran Khan will be contesting from five...

President Bashar al-Assad’s bombing campaign kills more than 500 people in Syria

AFP | Desperate civilians trapped in one of the most ferocious assaults of Syria's civil war awaited aid and medical help Monday after regime airstrikes...

Gulf crisis shows separation of sports and politics unlikely

James M Dorsey | The Gulf crisis that has pitted World Cup host Qatar against a United Arab Emirates-Saudi Arabia-led alliance for the past eight...

Shehbaz Sharif most likely to be new PML-N president

News Analysis | Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif is expected to become acting president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Ousted Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz...

Imran Khan weighs in on bureaucrat protests

News Analysis | Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan has threatened that if the protesting bureaucrats do not reopen their offices on Monday, he will...

Close to the Dead End, Sharifs Out to blow the system

Shaheen Sehbai| I am happy to write this in Calibri font, as it is not illegal anymore. But this piece can only be written in...

Suicide bomber in Kabul kills one, injures six

AFP | At least three people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in multiple suicide bombings in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the...