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...

Sajal Aly mourns ‘Mom’ Sri Devi’s death

News Desk | Pakistani actress Sajal Aly expressed her sorrow after the death of magnificent Indian actress Sri Devi on late Saturday in Dubai following...

Pakistan’s “train and advise” mission reverses its power relations with Saudi Arabia

Andrew Korybko | Pakistan decided to dispatch troops to Saudi Arabia in order to “train and advise” its military. The news broke late last week and...

Khalistan factor defined Trudeau visit to India

News Analysis | The Khalistan issue has kept India-Canada bilateral relations on ice in the last 3 decades since the 1980s. This issue has reappeared...

Contractor Ashiyana Housing Scheme, Shahid Shafiq, handed over to NAB

Farah Adeed | In a fresh development a local court in Lahore handed over the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bismillah Engineering, a private construction...

Is FATF a tool reflecting US, UK hypocrisy?

Waqas Shabbir | United Kingdom was an ally of the US when both countries put forward the motion to put Pakistan on the terror watch-list...

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...

Election campaigning on the roll: three parties three narratives

News Desk | As the 2018 general elections draw near, the three major parties in Pakistan: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan...

Kylie Jenner’s tweet blew away Snapchat at Wall Street

News Desk | The market value of Snapchat's parent company plunged by $1.3 billion after the reality star Kylie Jenner tweeted she is no longer...