Halal Food Authority back in business

News Analysis | Halal Food Authority, a probing body put together in 2015 for the task of reassuring that food products sold to local markets...

The fatally conclusive Baqir Najfi Report

Jaweria Waheed | After three years, five months and eighteen days since the bloodbath in Model Town occurred in 2014, the first inquiry tribunal report...

Failure in newly inaugurated LNG terminal disrupts gas supply

News Analysis | Pakistan’s second liquefied natural gas (LNG) re-gasification terminal at Port Qasim has suffered a severe technical fault. The emergency mechanism was deployed...

Pressure on Rana Sanaullah mounts as 15 lawmakers threaten to resign

News Analysis | Pir Hameedudin Sialvi, the custodian of Dargah Sial Shareef, has announced his dissociation with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N). While addressing...

25th anniversary of Babri Mosque demolition still shapes Indian politics

News Analysis | 6th December 2017 marked the 25th anniversary of the demolition of Babri Mosque in India. The quarter century old event was a...

Supreme Court summoning of Sindh CM highlights water crisis

News Analysis | Human waste is being deliberately released in water, observed Chief Justice Saqib Nisar during Wednesday’s hearing of the water pollution case. The...

Trump recognizes Jerusalem as capital of Israel

  Reuters with additional input from News Desk | President Donald Trump on Wednesday reversed decades of U.S. policy and recognized Jerusalem as the capital of...

Bomb blast near Afghan border kills 9

Reuters | A bomb rigged to a motorcycle exploded in a militant-plagued part of northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing nine people, officials said...

Pakistan beats India to 5G Internet

News Analysis | Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has announced that Pakistan will be the first country in South Asia to test 5G services, in its...

State Surrender

Saad Rasool | As the nation recovers from TLY’s dharnas in Islamabad and Lahore, one lamentable fact has become painfully clear: no matter who the...

Who is really interested in the solution of the Syrian conflict?

 Anna Jaunger | Speaking at a UN Security Council briefing several days ago, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock stressed that...

India’s Identity Under Modi’s Shadow

Maham Gillani | Identity is the “understanding of self in relation to the other. ”Identity is a product of a number of factors that include...