The nine contenders for the best picture Oscar

AFP |  From a quirky fairy tale romance to a dark comedy about a murder investigation, via a couple of coming-of-age tales and a horror...

Planned Indian military base stirs Seychelles controversy

AFP | A plan for India to build a military base on an outlying Seychelles island has won favor among the archipelago nation's politicians, but...

PM Abbasi wants to reform NAB laws

News Desk | Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi stated that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) laws need reform because they were enacted by a dictator...

Car Bomb explodes near Australian convoy in Kabul

News Desk | A car bomb exploded close to a passing Australian embassy staff as they traveled through the Afghan capital, Kabul on March 2,...

Iran acid attack victims find new identity in art

AFP | Massoumeh Attaie does not want to be defined only by the evil that drove her father-in-law to blind her with acid in her...

MQM-P whitewashed in the Senate elections

News Desk | Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) lost all its seats in the 3rd March Senate elections. Elections for 12 Senate seats were held in...

Win in Senate elections may pave way for PML-N to legislate against judiciary?

News Desk | Senate Elections are underway. The upper house of the parliament is to be reelected today. Given the political environment of the country,...

Analyzing the dynamics of institutional imbalance in Pakistan

Farah Adeed | These are hard days for Pakistan. Pakistan is going to be placed in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey-list in June this...

New song from ‘Cake’ spreads love and melts hearts

News Desk | The makers of ‘Cake' have released a new song ‘Meri Dunya' from the movie. The song is not a primarily romantic number...

Pakistan and the US: Together adrift

Salman Bashir | A raft of acerbic public messages has created uncertainty about the course of US-Pakistan relations. Strategic circles in Washington have unleashed a...

The good people of Pakistan! Making a difference!

Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | For years I've written about the terrible corruption and loot and plunder which prevails in Pakistan.  About how our leaders have...

Will India, Russia and Bangladesh’s new agreement on civil nuclear cooperation isolate Pakistan?

News Analysis | India signed a tripartite agreement for the first time with Russia and Bangladesh for civil nuclear cooperation on March 1, 2018. Nuclear...