World urged to create conducive environment for people of Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the international community should help create a conducive environment within Afghanistan for its people so that there...

Pakistan administered 1.5m doses of Covid vaccines in a day: Asad

ISLAMABAD: A record 1.5 million people in Pakistan received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, Minister for Planning and Development Asad...

Pakistan frets over security threats from Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: There is growing concern among officials in Pakistan about security in neighbouring Afghanistan, as the Taliban tries to form a government and stabilise...

Fact check: Biden skirts broken promise on Afghanistan exit

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden glossed over his broken promise to keep US troops in Afghanistan until the last Americans are out and offered the...

Qatar warns isolating Taliban could further destabilise Afghanistan

DOHA: Qatar's foreign minister warned that isolating the Taliban could lead to further instability and urged countries to engage with the hardline movement to...

Before Afghanistan collapse, Biden pressed Ghani to ‘change perception’

WASHINGTON: In the last call between US President Joe Biden and his Afghanistan counterpart before the Taliban seized control of the country, the leaders discussed...

Hell for Women?

Zubair Soomro A 35-year-old woman and her daughter were raped by a rickshaw driver and his s them accomplice in Lahore; On the Independence Day...

Lessons From the icecream boycott

Some expected that all hell would break loose when Ben & Jerry's, the ice cream company, announced that as of 2022 they would no...

Taking care of the indigent

Prime Minister Imran Khan formally expanded the ‘Ehsaas Koi Bhooka Na Soye’ programme to Multan, Lahore, and Gujranwala last Friday. He had   inaugurated...

Terrorism emanating from Afghanistan and India

The country’s military leadership has briefed three parliamentary committees on internal and external security challenges. The idea was to create a national consensus on...

Dangerous debt accumulation

In the past three years the PTI government has added Rs 14.9 trillion to public debt, taking the total figure to Rs 39.9 trillion....

COAS reiterates resolve to thwart designs of CPEC spoilers

RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has reiterated the resolve to thwart designs of those who want to spoil China-Pakistan Economic Corridor...