US, Canada set for talks to revise NAFTA

AFP | With a deal with Mexico out of the way, US trade officials are due to resume talks with Canada on Tuesday to try...

America mourns John McCain, war hero and political icon

AFP | America paid tribute Sunday to John McCain, the Vietnam War hero and the two-time presidential candidate with a legendary temper whose personal courage...

Why Donald Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy isn’t much different from Barack Obama’s – M K Bhadrakumar

M K Bhadrakumar | United States President Donald Trump’s much-awaited policy speech on the way forward in Afghanistan was disappointing. It neither fulfilled his campaign...

U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Pakistan in the light of “Call content fiasco”

News Analysis | U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Pakistan in the first week of September to meet the new Prime Minister Imran...

‘Factually incorrect’ statements and ‘Narrow perceptions’ from POTUS administration

News Desk | After Pakistan Pakistan denied that the issue of terrorism had been discussed at all, in a phone call, between U.S. Secretary Mike Pompeo...

Will the stock market crash if Trump is impeached?

AFP | Faced with new political turmoil, President Donald Trump warned in a television interview broadcast Thursday that the economic consequences of his impeachment would...

State Department stands by original readout of phone call between Pompeo and Imran Khan

News Desk | Pompeo claims to call on Pakistan's Khan to act against 'terrorists' US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claims to have pressed new Pakistani...

Four questions on Iran’s legal challenge to US sanctions

AFP | Iran's legal challenge against renewed sanctions by the United States goes before the UN's International Court of Justice on Monday. Here are four key...

US welcomes Afghanistan’s latest ceasefire offer to Taliban

AFP | The United States on Sunday welcomed the announcement by Kabul of a provisional ceasefire with the Taliban, saying the plan "responds to the...

Bitter pills: Erdogan’s possible remedies for Turkey crisis

AFP | The crash in the Turkish lira sparked by US sanctions has left President Recep Tayyip Erdogan facing the biggest economic challenge of his...

Game changer or not? A year of Trump’s Afghan plan

AFP | A year since President Donald Trump unveiled his strategy for Afghanistan, a fresh wave of violence and bloodshed has assailed the war-torn nation...

IMET: Military-to-military contact -Dr. Zafar Jaspal

Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The divergence in Pakistan and the United States regional and global outlook has gradually been fading their strategic partnership. Indeed,...