Nawaz, self-declared defender of democracy, remains absent from election process

News Analysis | The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that ‘rigged’ and ‘manipulated’ elections are not desirable for the development of democracy in...

Pakistan’s younger Sharif launches election campaign

AFP | The younger brother of Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif launched his party's election campaign Tuesday with vows to deliver massive infrastructure projects...

PTI demands arrests of Ex Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, for corruption

News Analysis | The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has demanded the caretaker government and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to arrest ex Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry...

Will NAB’s red warrants bring ‘penthouse pirates’ to justice?

News Analysis | The National Accountability Bureau is contemplating a move to request the interior ministry to start the process to issue red warrants for...

Who wants to blow up NAB headquarters for doing its job: asks Accountability Chief

News Analysis | The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal says that the watchdog is receiving threats that its headquarters would be...

Imran Khan all set to woo voters in Mianwali after acceptance of nomination papers

News Analysis | An appellate tribunal of the Lahore High Court has set aside the decision by Returning Officer (RO)  rejecting Imran Khan’s nomination papers...

Khan’s politics of courting the ‘electables’; will it work?

Saad Rasool | As politics, in Pakistan, enters its home-stretch for the 2018 general elections, there is a palpable sense of nervousness across our political...

Ex-PM Abbasi confronted by an angry crowd shouting: “Go Abbasi Go”

News Analysis | Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqqan Abbasi kick-started his election campaign from Kahuta district, an administrative division of Rawalpindi, on Sunday. His first outing didn’t...

Nisar’s 24 hour long romance with PMLN ends; Nawaz puts up his candidates challenging his ex-friend..!

News Analysis | Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) on Sunday decided to nominate its candidates against its disgruntled leader Chaudry Nisar Ali Khan from the constituencies, National Assembly’s-NA-59...

Another PML-N loyalist leaves King’s party, banging Sharifs: Will more follow?

News Analysis | The senior leadership and ‘loyalists’ are frequently parting their ways with Sharifs and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. After Chuadhry Nisar Ali Khan and...

Iran hints at moving away from the nuclear deal if Europe does not step up

News Analysis | Iran’s deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has warned the signatories of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as Iran nuclear...

Kashmir: India’s Human Rights violations from “pellet guns” to “Killer gangs”?

Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The situation in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) has been dreadful for three decades. The Indian intelligence agencies have been running...