‘No One Can Justify Terror’: Field Marshal Asim vows zero tolerance for terrorism

QUETTA: Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir on Wednesday asserted that no terrorist or their facilitator would...

French police raid X offices, summon Musk in widening probe

French police raided the offices of Elon Musk's social media network X on Tuesday and prosecutors ordered the tech billionaire to face questions in...

‘Modi sold the country’: Rahul Gandhi slams India–US trade deal

NEW DELHI: Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of bowing to pressure from the United States to finalise a...

Iranian envoy hails Pak-Iran bond as ‘two bodies, one soul’ in meeting with Nawaz, Maryam

Ambassador Reza Amiri Moghadam appreciates Pakistan’s ‘principled positions and continued support’ for Tehran Both sides discuss regional tensions, US-Israel posture during in Lahore...

Pakistan’s Bold Defence Foray into the Middle East

A recent analysis published by Foreign Policy views Pakistan’s emerging defense and diplomatic role in the Middle East and North Africa from a perspective that not...

Kashmir’s new battlefield: The War of Narratives

The Jammu and Kashmir conflict has long been viewed as primarily a territorial and political conflict between India and Pakistan for a long time....

When courts are not enough

Pakistan's legal system is overburdened. For its residents, who are often dealing with at least two million unresolved cases, some of which have been...

Inflation stays down

The danger of inflation creeping back up, after the CPI reading for December of 6.1 percent, seems to have receded, with a reading of...

A dirty transition

The environmental and human cost of mineral extraction is becoming clearer and more alarming by the day. Ghana is a case in point where...

Unraveling global order

AT the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney uttered a truth many leaders tend to avoid: the rules-based international order...

Xi reaffirms priority on China–Vietnam ties, pledges deeper strategic cooperation

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday said China would consistently attach great importance to the development of China–Vietnam relations, reaffirming Beijing’s commitment to...

Xi, Putin pledge deeper strategic coordination, call for stronger Sino–Russia ties

-- Xi holds virtual meeting with Putin, pledges closer ties BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for expanded high-level exchanges and stronger pragmatic...

Pakistan announces to observe Feb 5 as public holiday tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has announced that February 5 would be a public holiday on the occasion of Kashmir Solidarity Day. The announcement was made...

Libya’s former leader Gaddafi’s son Saif killed by ‘four-man commando’, confirms lawyer

TRIPOLI: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libya's late longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi, was killed on Tuesday by a "four-man commando" in his home...

Imran Khan attack convict handed additional four-year jail term for illegal arms possession

ISLAMABAD: A court in Wazirabad has awarded an additional four-year prison sentence to Muhammad Naveed, who is already serving two life terms for the...