Who will become the next chief of PML-N?
News Analysis | The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) became a headless party after the disqualification of former premier Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court (SC)...
US to hold Islamabad accountable for its actions: White House
News Analysis | President Donald Trump is not satisfied with the progress made by Pakistan in the fight against terrorism and the US is holding...
The pitfalls of Judicial Activism and what to do about It
Abdur Rahim | American historian and public intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Junior introduced the controversial term “Judicial activism” in Fortune Magazine in an article titled “...
Bureaucrats united against NAB over Ahad Cheema’s corruption charges
News Analysis | Bureaucrats of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) have created a deadlock by observing a pen-down strike on Friday against the arrest of...
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...
Is Democracy merely rule of the majority?
Farah Adeed | Democracy is under the threat not only in Pakistan but across the globe. Authoritarian tendencies of political leaders in both established and transitional...
Trump announces ‘heaviest ever’ sanctions on North Korea
AFP | US President Donald Trump has rolled out fresh sanctions against North Korea-linked shipping assets, hailing the package as the "heaviest sanctions ever" levied...
India-bound gas pipeline breaks ground on Afghan section
AFP | Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on Friday ceremonially broke ground on the Afghan section of an ambitious, multi-billion dollar gas pipeline expected to...
Iran’s ambassador says US sanction delaying IP project
News Analysis | On February 22, 2018 Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan Mehdi Honardoost, while speaking at a seminar on “Contemporary Relations between Pakistan, Iran and...
PML-N and PPP united against the judiciary?
News Analysis | Senators showed great concern over the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan to overturn an amendment made by the parliament...
PPP’s guarded approach to Nawaz’s confrontation with judiciary
News Analysis | Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari accused ousted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of creating deliberate confrontation between judiciary and...
Pakistan’s critical role in the New Cold War
M K Bhadrakumar | Afghanistan, no doubt, was what brought Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif to Moscow on a ‘working visit’ on February 20. This...