THE debate over the country’s ‘system’ is once again doing the rounds. As the nation celebrates the Independence Day today ...

WALTON NAZE: Polls opened on Thursday in an eastern England by-election that pits hard-right leader Nigel Farage — often ...

THE latest UN monitoring report analysing the activities of several transnational terrorist groups is unequivocal in its assessment: the Afghan Taliban “have continued their support” to the banned TTP ...

IT has been 79 years since Pakistan was brought into being. Much water has passed under the proverbial bridge, but basic contradictions around national identity, resources and representation, and ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addresses the inauguration ceremony of the Yadgar-i-Fatah monument in Islamabad on August 13, 2026. — Screengrab via YouTube/PTV News ...

IT is said that water in a pond gets polluted if it remains static for a few days. Similarly, those communities — unwilling to change and which reject new patterns of life — are considered to be ...

THE Punjab government is spending Rs5bn on modernising jail facilities in the province, but to what end? The provincial home department’s shopping list is quite something to behold: reportedly, more ...

NEW YORK: A Chicago jury has awarded $29 million to the family of an Irish-born United Nations employee who died in a 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash, according to US court papers published on Wednesday.

QUETTA: Pakistan Railways on Thursday suspended the Jaffar Express service between Quetta and Peshawar for two days “to facilitate repair work on the main railway track”. PR officials said the service ...

STRIPPED of its rhetoric, the prime minister’s announcement of Pakistan’s first National Youth Employment Policy is nothing more than hollow promises. While long on aspirations, the announcement is ...

A gun battle between terrorists and police in the mountainous Barikot Dubando area of Upper Dir district continued on ...

LAHORE: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto declared today [Aug 13] that the Pakistani nation had achieved stability and chosen dynamism as its emblem now. The nation has embarked on an odyssey of ...