Suicide bomber strikes Tarlai Imambargah during Friday prayers, leaving devastation in its wake Defence Minister points to India-Afghanistan nexus behind attack, saying state will respond to cruelty with full force Authorities claim suicide...

Zardari, Mirziyoyev chart ‘historic course’ to elevate Pakistan–Uzbekistan ties

President Zardari confers Nishan-e-Pakistan on Uzbek President in special investiture ceremony Both leaders hold talks focus on trade, connectivity, defence, culture and people-to-people...

Tarar says Imran’s ‘detailed’ medical report handed over to family as PTI again moves SC for doctors’ access

Federal Information Minister confirms reports delivered following PMO directives PIMS ophthalmologist diagnoses right central retinal vein occlusion, procedure completed smoothly Adiala Jail administration...

Punjab cancels Basant events after Tarlai bombing, vows unity against terror

Information Minister Azma Bokhari announces cancellation of Saturday’s Basant activities Expresses solidarity with families of martyrs on behalf of Punjab govt, saying nation...

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...

Gaza reconstruction funding

US President Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan is running into problems because potential donors are hanging back because they are afraid that Israel will resume the war on Hamas,...

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....

The Myth of Control

“Power that rests only on fear is already decaying,” Hannah Arendt, the American historian and philosopher once warned, arguing that coercion can enforce silence but never produce legitimacy. This...

Trump’s Instigation of Treason

Imagine a moment so extreme that it defies the basic logic of national loyalty. Picture American opposition leaders traveling to Moscow, praising Vladimir Putin, and applauding the removal or...

Not just economics

AT PENPOINT The India-European Union deal is being seen in some quarters as a major development in the world mainly because it seems to establish a separate European pole which...