Information minister blames PTI for spike in terrorism after Islamabad blast Defends security agencies, calls them internationally praised and referencing success of operation Radd-ul-Fasaad and Zarb-i-Azb Criticizes ex-premier Imran Khan’s TTP settlement policy...

India’s ‘water weaponization’ an act of war, threatening regional stability: Experts

Experts insist Pakistan retains full right to respond to any IWT violation, saying treaty can’t be placed in ‘abeyance’ Say PCA ruling bars...

Two Pakistanis shortlisted by China for human spaceflight programme

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...

SC to hear 13 petitions involving Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi on Feb 9

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has fixed 13 petitions relating to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, for hearing on...

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...