Provinces demanded release of funds in Council of Common Interests at PM House

News Analysis | Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi assured the provinces that pending funds will be released before May, in an attempt to address...

PHC suspends sentences of 25 convicts in Mashal’s case and orders their release

News Analysis | The Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) Abbottabad bench has suspended the sentences of 25 convicts in Mashal Khan’s lynching case on Tuesday while...

Pakistani mountain climber Samina Baig appointed UNDP goodwill ambassador

News Desk | Pakistani mountaineer Samina Baig has been appointed as the United Nation Development Programme's goodwill ambassador to Pakistan on Monday. Samina Baig is the first...

Perception management strategies for Hafiz Saeed

News Analysis | Hafiz Saeed seems to have drawn the ire of international media again. Every now and then, inevitably, Hafiz Saeed is a feature...

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...

Why does India fear China’s improving ties with the Maldives?

News Analysis | China is planning to establish a Joint Ocean Observation Station in the Maldives leading to numerous security concerns being raised in India....

Pakistan political system’s 21 day countdown

 Farrukh Saleem| Judge Mohammad Bashir of Accountability Court-1, who is hearing graft cases against the ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members, retires...

Ahsan Iqbal vows to ban JuD and FIF ‘again’

News Analysis | Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has vowed to ban Hafiz Saeed’s Jamatud Dawa (JuD) and its welfare wing the Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) while...

UK Tory MP apologises to Labour’s Corbyn over spy claim

AFP | A vice chairman of Britain's Conservative Party on Saturday apologised to Labour's Jeremy Corbyn after tweeting that the opposition leader had "sold British...

President Azad Jammu and Kashmir seeks international attention for the region

News Analysis | President Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Sardar Masood said, “India-held Kashmir is on fire but the world community is not sending any...

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...