Remembering Martin Luther King
WASHINGTON WATCH
It should not have been surprising that President Donald Trump had to be goaded by civil rights leaders into issuing a statement acknowledging...
Building indigenous strength
Australia has entered into a preliminary, non-binding arrangement with Pakistan to examine the potential acquisition of JF-17 Thunder Block III fighter aircraft, signaling a...
A tale of two protests
Across two very different geographies, two very different political systems, and two very different societies, demonstrations are unfolding that strangely mirror each other in...
Holding the line
The State Bank of Pakistan’s Monetary Price Committee was facing pressure to lower the interest rate, but the IMF review mission which visited between...
Retired and betrayed
The federal government had recruited employees from across the country to settle in the newly established capital city, Islamabad. These employees were allotted official...
Selective strictness
The introduction of the e-challan system in Karachi represents a long-overdue attempt to break with business as usual in traffic governance. After decades of...
PM reaffirms commitment to strengthen longstanding Pakistan–Myanmar ties
Premier Shehbaz meets Myanmar FM, stresses enhanced trade, education and people-to-people links
Lauds Myanmar’s cooperation in combating human trafficking, support for Pakistan’s engagement...
School materials allowed into Gaza after two years of Israeli blockages, UN agency says
GAZA: The UN children’s agency said on Tuesday it had, for the first time in two-and-a-half years, been able to deliver school kits with...
Hamas seeks role for its police in Gaza ahead of disarmament talks, sources say
GAZA: Hamas is seeking to incorporate its 10,000 police officers into a new United States-backed Palestinian administration for Gaza, sources said, a demand likely...
‘Mother of all deals’: India, EU finalise landmark trade deal, PM Modi says
NEW DELHI: India and the European Union have finalised a long-pending landmark trade deal, both sides said on Tuesday, as they seek to hedge...
Shab-e-Baraat to be celebrated in the first week of February. Will it be a holiday? Find out here
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is yet to decide whether a holiday will be announced for Shab-e-Barat 2026, with no official notification issued so far by either...
Samsung introduces Galaxy Z Flip7 Olympic edition
Samsung Electronics has unveiled the Galaxy Z Flip7 Olympic Edition, a special device created exclusively for athletes competing at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter...
Punjab did not ban 132 songs for Basant celebrations
LAHORE: A notification issued by the Punjab Council of the Arts has gone viral on social media, prompting widespread but incorrect claims that the...
Punjab bans religious and political symbols on kites before Basant
LAHORE: The Punjab government has imposed a province-wide ban on the manufacture, sale, transport, and use of kites featuring religious or political imagery ahead...
Aik Aur Pakeezah exposes the fragile line between privacy and public violence
Geo TV’s Aik Aur Pakeezah is deliberately uncomfortable, using its prime-time slot to confront a reality Pakistan has faced before but rarely sustained in...