ISLAMABAD: Two candidates have been shortlisted for Pakistan’s Human Spaceflight Programme by the Astronauts Centre of China (ACC), the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday, marking a key milestone in the country’s participation...

Pakistan-Uzbekistan set new heights for ties with $3.4b B2B deals as Mirziyoyev concludes visit

PM Shehbaz and President Mirziyoyev pledge seamless business facilitation and investor support Premier says five-year protocol aims to boost trade, investment, R&D, IT,...

Condemnations pour in as Pakistan mourns deadly Imambargah attack

ISLAMABAD: Condemnations poured in on Friday after a suicide bomber targeted Imambargah Khadijah al-Kubra in Islamabad’s Tarlai area, killing at least 31 worshippers and...

Zardari, Mirziyoyev chart ‘historic course’ to elevate Pakistan–Uzbekistan ties

President Zardari confers Nishan-e-Pakistan on Uzbek President in special investiture ceremony Both leaders hold talks focus on trade, connectivity, defence, culture and people-to-people...

Focus on Central Asia

The visits from the Presidents of the two largest of the ex-Soviet Central Asian Republics. President Kassim-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan and President Shavikat Mirzayoyev of Uzbekistan, in themselves, were...

Gaza reconstruction funding

US President Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan is running into problems because potential donors are hanging back because they are afraid that Israel will resume the war on Hamas,...

Vehicles, Policy, and the quest for cleaner air

The quality of air a society tolerates says much about the value it places on human life. Breathing has become an act of endurance in the cities of Pakistan....

The Myth of Control

“Power that rests only on fear is already decaying,” Hannah Arendt, the American historian and philosopher once warned, arguing that coercion can enforce silence but never produce legitimacy. This...

Trump’s Instigation of Treason

Imagine a moment so extreme that it defies the basic logic of national loyalty. Picture American opposition leaders traveling to Moscow, praising Vladimir Putin, and applauding the removal or...

Not just economics

AT PENPOINT The India-European Union deal is being seen in some quarters as a major development in the world mainly because it seems to establish a separate European pole which...