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Free WiFi will soon be made available at the Lukla-Everest Base Camp and Annapurna Base Camp, along with Everest. This is not the first WiFi...
World is Changing: Chinese celebrating New Year in Islamabad
Islamabad: Chinese community in the Capital organized an event celebrating the New Year. Cultural dances, Chinese traditional music, and epic gymnastic performances left audience amazed. Pakistan...
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Why can’t Hindu widows wear red? Protests on social media
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Arrests of “Mossack Fonseca” Founders: World Wide Implications?
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Afghan NUG government needs bolstering from Trump Administration
In Washington, the silence is deafening.Ever since U.S. combat forces left Afghanistan at the end of 2014, relatively little has been heard about America’s...
Should FATA merge with KP or become an independent province?
The committee created by PM Nawaz Sharif in Nov 2015, headed by trusted lieutenant, Sartaj Aziz, after several months of work was clear that...
Watch Kashmiris play Pakistan’s national anthem on the Santoor and Rabab
The video was reportedly first shared on Facebook by a page called Culture de Kashmir. The four-minute-long video shows the two musicians rendering heavenly...
American military playing good cop & bad cop with Pakistan
General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and General Jim Mattis, United States Secretary of Defence had a 20-minute telephone conversation on...
What’s driving new found desire for Quran studies across federal & provincial governments?
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The plague of violence against women is on rise in Afghanistan again
An advocacy group, in the Afghan capital Kabul, campaigning for promoting women’s rights in Afghanistan says violence against women is on the rise in...
India’s ‘covert Nuclear city’ threatening regional stability
Following on from the Corp commanders statement on Wednesday, today the Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria, stated concerns about India building a ‘covert nuclear...
Myanmar negotiating to “license-build” Pak-China JF-17 Multi-Role Thunder Fighters
Janes Defense Weekly, London based prestigious defense publication, has reported that Myanmar (Burma) is in advanced negotiations with Pakistan to build JF-17 Thunder multi-role...
Pakistan Supreme Court questions government over wasting public’s money by using private lawyers
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Misery of the cotton pickers of Sindh demands Bilawal Bhutto’s attention
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Indian government turns down donor funding: ‘will pay ourselves’
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Will China’s protection of Masood Azhar create bigger problems for Pakistan down the road?
China, at the behest of Pakistan, has once again prevented the United Nations from listing a prominent Pakistani militant as a globally designated terrorist.China’s...
KP government introduces a Muslim Board to overview legislation, Education
Yesterday, the KP government announced that they would set up a 10 member board to advise the government on religious matters.This was announced in...
Are Pakistani politicians dancing with Perkin’s hitmen?
Imtiaz Gul |John Perkins, the best selling author of the book 'Confessions of An Economic Hitman,' talks of how corrupt rulers of smaller developing nations...
All Regional players invited to Moscow to discuss peace in Afghanistan
Russia in an attempt to continue taking leadership in this region has asked five countries to join it to discuss the future of Afghanistan....
Why Pakistan’s feudal class is not worried about the water crisis?
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Bloomberg thinks Pakistan will be an over-performer next year
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Repeated Flare-Ups on Indo-Pakistani borders: Pakistanis see an “Agenda”
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Chinese tell President Ghani negotiations with Taliban only way for peace in region
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International Republican Institute (IRI) Mysterious “Pakistan Survey”
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How ‘digital Bangladesh’ has started online accountability of country’s parliamentarians
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Pakistan’s Ababeel ballistic missile ensures strategic stability in South Asia
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