7,000 used cars stuck at Karachi port as dealers and government lock horns

News Analysis | Importers of used cars (that were handicapped by the governments’ refusal to give access to used cars at the port) are claiming that the...

Former ambassador Haqqani booked in three FIRs

News Analysis | Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States (US), Husain Haqqani, was booked in First Investigation Reports (FIR) in three different police stations...

Sindh sugar mill owners fail to settle crisis even after SHC intervention

News Analysis | The representative contingents of Sindh-based growers and sugar mill owners failed to come to a settlement in the dispute over sugarcane prices...

Rao Anwar has the right to a transparent investigation: Bilawal

News Analysis | Pakistan’s People Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari demanded a ban against police encounters all over the country. He said that while addressing...

Malala Yousafzai supports Akshay Kumar’s Padman

News Analysis | Malala Yousafzai recently joined hands with Twinkle Khanna to support Akshay Kumar's upcoming movie ‘Padman'. Twinkle Khanna was invited at the Oxford...

State Bank optimistic after forecast growth in economy

News Analysis | The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has issued a statement that the prospects for economic growth remain strong, noting that the economy...

Rao Anwar suspended as public anger over Naqeeb’s death grows

News Analysis | Hours after a three-member probe committee tasked with probing the killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud in a police encounter submitted its report to...

US condemns ‘FreeKarachi’ campaign against Pakistan

News Analysis | A group of Muhajirs in the US have launched a ‘FreeKarachi’ campaign against the alleged atrocities committed against their ethnicity by the...

Israeli PM says he does not consider Pakistan an enemy

News Analysis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stressed that his country is not an enemy of Pakistan and that the South Asian nation...

Involving establishment in politics is unsafe for democracy

Junaid Ali Malik | The well-known tendency of the ruling party PML-N with regard to involving the army in every matter is quite precarious and...

Facebook to allow users to rank news sources based on ‘trust’

AFP | Facebook announced Friday it will ask its two billion users to rank their trust in news sources, in its latest attempt to combat...

Why Tunisians are back after the Jasmine Revolution?

John Filitz | Seven years ago in January a popular uprising in Tunisia ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. This year over 770 Tunisian civilians have...