Blue-eyed tea-seller becomes social media sensation in Pakistan & India

A blue-eyed tea-seller from Islamabad has scored a modelling contract after featuring in an Instagram post that went viral. Arshad Khan, 18, a chai-wallah...

India Takes Steps to Counter Threats of Violence Over Movie Release

One of India’s biggest groups of cinema owners has said that it will not show films featuring Pakistani actors, partly targeting the planned release...

India has no moral ground to talk about counter-terrorism, says Sartaj Aziz

Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Sunday said that India had no moral ground to talk about counter-terrorism efforts and...

Dhaka seeks balance of strategic ties

Developments like government-to-government deals worth $24.45 billion and private investment worth $13.6 billion, during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s milestone visit to Dhaka, upgraded the...

Pakistan’s underdog businessman gearing up for comeback

Up until the mid-2000s, the Yousuf Dewan Companies (YDC) was one of the biggest business conglomerates in Pakistan. It had business interests in sugar,...

The outrage media’s war games

THE smoke-filled newsrooms of English dailies in the Dubai of the 1980s where a clutch of newspapers had just debuted should normally have been...

Cyril Almeida’s Story Points To Old Fault Lines And New Strains In Pakistan Army-Govt relationship

 Ayesha Siddiqa | The media in Pakistan and outside was abuzz for some 48 hours over a story published by the English newspaper Dawn, regarding a...

Thousands of People Have Been ‘Displaced by Fighting’ in Eastern Burma

Karen and government-backed militia are reportedly fighting for control of an area where a major dam is being built Fighting over the construction of a...

Afghan Forces, Their Numbers Dwindling Sharply, Face a Resurgent Taliban

KABUL, Afghanistan — Outgunned and surrounded by Taliban fighters in a chronic combat zone of southern Afghanistan, the police officers and soldiers thought they...

Scotland Yard drops charges against Altaf Hussain? Why?

Moeed Pirzada | Scotland Yard, the investigative arm of British Police has dropped all charges related to money laundering against MQM leader Altaf Hussain. Charges...

Nawaz, Modi, Dawn & Pakistan Army: What is happening & Why?

Pakistanis, Indians and the world at large may disagree on many many things; its almost impossible to count how many, but on one thing,...

Chidambaram Interview Dropped as NDTV Censors News that ‘Compromises National Security’

“Our Army cannot be doubted or questioned or used for political gains,” channel staffers are told in an internal email.   The graphic that played out...
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