With regional balance of power precariously poised, future of another Middle Eastern remains dangerously uncertain
The elevations of Zardari to the Presidency and Shehbaz to the Prime Minister’s Office have too many lessons for the watchers and students of...
Admitting lethargic campaign, insiders confided that promises made in document would neither disappoint competing political parties nor people
In this photo released on Nov 8, 2023, British High Commissioner Jane Marriott can be seen in Gilgit Baltistan. —x/JaneMarriottUKISLAMABAD: Urging...
Kakar says those talking about level-playing field for all political parties should also remember same situation provided in 2018
Six years ago, I landed back in Pakistan from London to take up a new journalistic assignment. The political chessboard was getting trickier by the...
The United States Central Command has expressed its resolve to continue strengthening its partnership with Pakistan to improve stability and combat...
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir electorate seems to have stuck to its post-Musharrafian electoral tradition, handing over the orb and scepter of...
Pakistan is now being forced to make tough decisions – decisions that could force Pakistan into a diplomatic cul-de-sac.
On Sunday, Pakistan’s civilian and military leaders gathered in Aabpara for a “briefing” on national and regional security. Details are...
ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom hopes Pakistan would get an excellent performance report from the FATF in the upcoming plenary next week for making...
On Monday, 18 May, London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies , a global think tank of note, launched a detailed study identifying...
The virus is marching on its deadly trail, country-to-country and continent-to-continent. In fact, it is early days for the infective agent’s...
The businessmen met the COAS at a dinner reception that continued late at night on Wednesday.
In a rare development in international arena, the Indian government of Narednra Modi denied right to fly to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir...
PM Imran Khan has blamed the bureaucracy for making the life of his eight-month-old administration difficult by being lethargic, by not signing the...
ISLAMABAD: International security experts have voiced concerns that Pakistan needs to be extra vigilant as its star sporting extravaganza --...
India was also warned by the US that the international powers would not be able to stop the confrontation with Pakistan from progressing into a...
Many in the world are portraying India and Pakistan at the moment as two nuclear antagonists perilously close to mutual assured destruction. On...
Curse on you Sidhu Sahib. Curse on you. How would you answer to your country and your people,” was how one Indian tweeted. One reason for...
Imagine a newly contracted employee demanding of the employer a free run for 100 days before his/her performance is called into question. Even a...
Federal ministers, senior government and defence officials, leaders of central banks and principal commercial entities, business and sectoral heads,...
Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Indian National Congress – India’s principal opposition party - has added his voice to claims that the Indian...
In the next a few days, Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi is going to be Pakistan’s next prime minister. His opponents are also getting ready to make sure he...
One wonders if the taste, smell or effect of power is any different from the turpentine mustiness of pine trees that dot Pakistan’s capital,...
CommentThe judgment is finally in. Nawaz Sharif would serve a decade in jail and his daughter, Maryam would spend seven years for their sentences...
CommentIf all goes to plan, Pakistan will vote in twenty days time. Problem is there are too many plans. There are procedural plans to hold the...
Mid-June 2018 - the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights published its first report on Kashmir. Since then a lot of...
SINGAPORE: The United States plans to prop India for an enhanced role in a region referred to until recently as Asia-Pacific. For America, her...
Singapore: Venue was Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore. All roads leading to the grand setting were blocked for strictest security. Checks were so many...
Had there been a Richter mechanism to gauge political tremors, Nawaz Sharif’s Muslim League was jolted on Monday when 10 of its parliamentarians...
ISLAMABAD: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, 20, returned home Thursday after five years and five months since she was attacked by the Pakistani...
CommentPakistani politics is a mindboggling mélange of power, privilege and pelf. The Saturday election to refill half of the retiring Senate has...
CommentPakistan’s domestic politics remains so jumpy that one hardly focuses on the storms brewing regularly on its borders or further afield. A...
“If I am here for 45 days, I will try to complete the amount of work that requires 45 months.” This is what Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi...
CommentMy driver was late for work yesterday and subsequently was I. He was livid for being trapped in traffic that halted him for over 40 minutes...
