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...

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...

Did dropping Pakistan support lead to China becoming Vice President of FATF?

News Analysis | India congratulated China on its election as vice-president of the global money laundering watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on February...

US official visits Pakistan in quest to improve relations after FATF debacle

News Analysis | In the latest development, a senior United States (US) National Security Council official has visited Islamabad in a low key affair aiming...

Shehbaz Sharif elected as the new PML-N president

News Analysis | Chief Minister of Punjab Mian Shehbaz Sharif has been elected as the next party chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) by the...

PML-N cannot remain in the name of a disqualified person: PAT tells ECP

News Analysis | An application submitted by the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and Advocate Makhdoom Muhammad Niaz Inqilabi to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has...

Breaking barriers: Kanwal Shauzab the only female general Senate seat nominee

News Desk | For the past few months, Pakistani politics has mostly been about the upcoming Senate elections. From the dethroning of the Chief...

Pakistan’s “train and advise” mission reverses its power relations with Saudi Arabia

Andrew Korybko | Pakistan decided to dispatch troops to Saudi Arabia in order to “train and advise” its military. The news broke late last week and...

Contractor Ashiyana Housing Scheme, Shahid Shafiq, handed over to NAB

Farah Adeed | In a fresh development a local court in Lahore handed over the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bismillah Engineering, a private construction...

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...

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...