Tag: conference
What are Tehreek-e-Labbaik’s chances in 2018 elections?
News Analysis | Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TYLRA) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi recently announced that his party will contest in the upcoming 2018 general elections....
Why Fazl-ur-Rehman vents venom against Imran Khan?
News Analysis | Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, President of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), has once again criticized his political and ideological rival Imran Khan. While speaking to...
“White right wing terror” in Canada
News Analysis | The calm actions of a police officer who arrested the Toronto van suspect without firing a shot have prompted praise and, in...
Telenor Pakistan’s pledge towards ‘Reduced Inequalities’ accentuated at Sustainability Conference
News Desk | Islamabad – April 09, 2018: Telenor Pakistan, country’s foremost telecom and digital service provider, hosted a Sustainability Conference to revisit the progress...
Can China replace the US in the near Future?
News Analysis | China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi pledged that China had no such desire to replace America on the global stage while speaking at...
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...
Saudi Arabia expands entertainment industry
News Desk | Ahmad bin Aqeel Al-Khatib, head of General Entertainment Authority announced Saudi Arabia's ambitious plans to invest $64 billion in the entertainment industry...
North Korea calls UN chief ‘henchman’ of the US
AFP | North Korea on Thursday accused UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of being a "kind of henchman who is representing the United States" after the...
US warns of ‘critical time for humanity’ at Munich Security Conference
News Analysis | Dozens of the world’s political and military officials, politicians, journalists and security experts attended the 54th three-day (FEB 16-18, 2018) Munich Security...
Saving Pakistan from border incompetence
Junaid Ali Malik | COAS Qamar Bajwa attended the 54th Munich Security Conference in Germany. While presenting the viewpoint of the state of Pakistan in...
Pakistan still going easy on militants, alleges US intel chief
News Analysis | On February 15, 2018, seventeen US intelligence agencies including Central Intelligence Agency, Defence Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security...
CPEC to usher era of progress and prosperity: President Mamnoon
News Analysis | On February 13, 2018 President Mamnoon Hussain addressed an inaugural ceremony of the first International Deans Conference of Engineering Institutions organized by...
Council of Islamic Ideology advises against law for public hanging
News Analysis | The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has advised against amending the ‘Criminal Law Amendment Act 2017’ to add public hanging as the...
Amir Khan splashes opponent with water at press conference
AFP with additional input from News Desk | Amir Khan threw water over Phil Lo Greco after being taunted by the Canadian at a press...
Karni Sena announces movie on Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s mother
News Analysis | The chief of disgruntled extremist caste group Shri Rajput Karni Sena has announced to make a movie on Sanjay Leela Bhansali's mother....
Zainab culprit to be produced before Anti-Terrorism Court today
News Analysis | The main culprit in the Zainab murder and rape case will be produced before the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) today. The chief justice...
Hafiz Saeed approaches LHC to avoid possible arrest
News Analysis | Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has approached the Lahore High Court (LHC) against his possible arrest by the government at...
Zainab’s father not allowed to react after daughter’s killer was caught
Shiffa Yousafzai | We caught him. Yes, our agencies, our police force, Chief Justice of Pakistan and the forensic department did it. They all worked...
Tehreek-e-Labaik starts ‘jail bharo’ movement for acceptance of demands
News Analysis | Chief of Tehreek-e-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYRA) Ashraf Asif Jalali has announced on Monday his party will start a ‘jail bharo’ (fill...
Imran and Zardari to join PAT protest against Model Town massacre
News Analysis | Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will join Pakistan Awami Tehreek’s (PAT) protest on 17th January. The leadership of both...
Indian Judges revolt against the Chief Justice in order to preserve...
News Analysis | Four top Indian Supreme Court judges convened a press conference on Friday that was seen to reflect the growing rift with the...
Goa CM stance on beef highlights BJP’s double standards
News Analysis | In an apparent display of double standards, the BJP leaders of Goa and Kerala have promised a supply of beef to their...
“Nawaz must tell who rigged the elections”, PTI
News Analysis | Fawad Chaudhry, spokesperson of PTI, spoke to the press in response to Nawaz Sharif’s press conference. In response to Nawaz’s allegations that...
Was Nawaz condemning or defending Trump’s Tweet?
News Analysis | The deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addressed a press conference today in Punjab House Islamabad. The apparent purpose of the press conference...
Qadri-led multi-party conference demands Shehbaz and Sana resignations
News Analysis | A multi-party conference organized by the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Sunday demanded the resignations of the Chief Minister of Punjab Shehbaz...
Russia to meet ISIS threat from Afghanistan
M K Bhadrakumar | Kulbhushan Jadhav and our “surgical strike 2.0” across the LOC kept the adrenaline flowing in recent days, but it is the regional conference on...
India isolated by One Belt One Road Initiative
M K Bhadrakumar | From the Indian perspective, today’s announcement by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that Beijing and Islamabad are open to extending the...
Revolutionary government, religion and politics in the Philippines
Jumel G. Estrañero | Break from the weekday government tasks, one of my lectures in the university (as a sideline during Saturdays) got me into...
Pakistan standing with the global community against climate change: PM Abbasi
News Analysis | Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that Pakistan remains committed to playing its role in the global struggle for countering the...
Carol singers arrested as Hindutva members go on a rampage in...
News Analysis | Six carol singers have been arrested in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh after a man accused them of trying to...
Powers in Lebanon determined to end Saudi Iran interference
Reuters | Major powers will try to shore up Lebanon's stability on Friday by pushing Saudi Arabia and Iran to stop interfering in its politics,...
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...
Tahir ul Qadri holds press conference after Model Town report decision
News Analysis | On Tuesday, a few hours after the Lahore High Court ordered the report to be made public in the next 30 days,...
Jalali announces resignation and concludes the Lahore sit-in after 7-days
News Analysis | On Friday, the Punjab government reached an agreement with the faction of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLP) which concluded the 7-day sit-in on the...
Pope arrives in Bangladesh after controversial Myanmar visit
AFP Pope Francis on Thursday arrived in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees have sought sanctuary after fleeing a crackdown in neighbouring...
Angelina Jolie speaks on sexual violence at UN Summit
News Desk | Angelina Jolie in her powerful speech has pressed peacekeeping negotiators to make extraordinary efforts to safeguard the safety of women in war...
