Interior Minister says Islamabad imambargah suicide attack traced to terror groups being ‘financed, directed’ by India and operating from Afghan soil Says four facilitators and Afghan mastermind arrested in KP raids, lauding KP...

PHC strikes down KP Police Amend Act 2024 as ‘unconstitutional’

In a 28-page judgment authored by PHC CJ, court warns law would turn police into a ‘political tool’ Holds IGP’s authority over transfers...

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...

Terror in Islamabad

The blast in the Khadijtul Kubra imambargah after Friday prayers was horrific enough as it is, with 31 killed in the blast, and dozens injured, of whom some are...

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...

How Trump opened the Polar Door to China

The Arctic, once a frozen frontier of quiet diplomacy and carefully balanced power, is rapidly becoming a theatre of geopolitical drama. What makes this moment striking is not merely...

Unseen Scars

By LAIBA AMIN When talk turns to public health in Pakistan, the focus too often stays on hospitals, doctors, and statistics. What rarely gets attention is the quiet suffering of...

Radical Shift or Trade-Based Growth

During the previous weeks India finalized two trade deals with entities which matter in its trade map. A deal was finalized with India which was unprecedented form the standpoint...

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....