Political parties field fewer women in Kashmir election

MUZAFFARABAD: As the campaign picks up in Azad Jammu and Kashmir for the assembly polls, scheduled on Sunday (July 25), there are fewer women...

DG Khan bus crash kills 34, injures 36

DERA GHAZI KHAN: Thirty four people were killed and 36 others got injured when an over-speeding bus rammed into a truck near Taunsa Bypass...

Tokyo spectator ban leaves Olympic athletes perplexed

TOKYO: Whether it is sumo, or domestic basketball or baseball matches, Japanese fans have been filling the arenas in recent days leaving Olympic athletes...

Saudi commentators go public in criticising UAE role in Yemen

DUBAI: Pro-government commentators in Saudi Arabia are publicly criticising the United Arab Emirates' role in Yemen, a rare move that reflects political and economic...

Imran’s number among those targeted by Israeli spyware: report

An Israeli company's spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists around...

Soldier martyred in South Waziristan operation

A young sepoy was martyred during an intelligence-based operation by security forces in the Senai Narai area of South Waziristan district, the Inter-Services Public...

Who’s minding the store?

Islamabad, under the PTI government, seems to have become a place where anything goes. From mysterious killings, to the recent case of Usman Mirza,...

Covid-19 fourth wave

Here should no longer be any doubt about the predictions of the coming of a fourth wave of the covid-19 pandemic, because the numbers...

Much better progress needed in effectively dealing with climate change crisis

‘Sonam P Wangdi of Bhutan, the chair of the least developed countries (LDC) group at Cop26, said: “Despite Covid understandably taking the headlines, climate...

Kabul’s limited security options

The Great Game in Afghanistan is in the final phase, with 95 percent of the US troops withdrawal completed, and the Taliban are pushing...

The Nuclear future of East Asia

In the face of North Korea’s and China’s continuous expansion in their nuclear arsenal in the past decade, the nuclear question for East Asian...

Delhi played role to keep Islamabad on FATF grey list: Jaishankar

NEW DELHI: India finally on Sunday admitted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government ensured that Pakistan remains on the grey list of the Financial...