The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) organised a massive rally under the banner ‘Kashmir will become Pakistan’ in Lahore on Sunday, marching from Nasir Bagh to Charing Cross. The rally was led by former prime minister and PPP Central Punjab President Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and was attended by General Secretary Syed Hassan Murtaza, Information Secretary Shehzad Saeed […]
Fifteen years after publishing a memoir that shook Pakistan’s most powerful political dynasty, writer and activist Fatima Bhutto is returning with a deeply personal account of abuse, survival and renewal. Bhutto’s forthcoming memoir, The Hour of the Wolf, details a decade-long coercive and abusive relationship that she says she endured in silence, believing it to […]
Elon Musk’s social media platform X was back up after a brief outage affected more than 19,000 US users on Sunday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The outage lasted about 45 minutes and was largely resolved by 12:04 p.m. ET, the website said X did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The […]
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said the United States would respond in a significant way if Canada proceeds with the trade agreement that it negotiated with China. “If they do a deal with China, yeah, we’ll do something very substantial,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “We don’t want China to take over […]
The foreign ministers of eight Muslim nations, including Pakistan, have strongly condemned Israel’s repeated violations of the ceasefire in Gaza, which have resulted in the killing and injury of more than a thousand Palestinians. A joint statement issued by Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar said that Israel’s […]
On March 16, 2017, Anil Ambani, an Indian billionaire closely associated with Narendra Modi’s BJP government, sent financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a message that the “Leadership” was asking for his assistance in connecting with senior figures in Donald Trump’s orbit ahead of an upcoming state visit by the Indian prime minister. Ambani texted Epstein, […]
The naval forces of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have no plan to carry out live-fire exercises in the Strait of Hormuz as reported by some media outlets earlier this week, an Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday. Iran’s state-run Press TV reported on Thursday that the force would carry out the exercises in the Strait of […]
By the time Japan announced that its defence budget would reach the NATO benchmark of 2 per cent of GDP, the fiction of postwar pacifism had already collapsed. What remains is the shell of Article 9, which is still inked into the constitution but is being steadily hollowed out by reinterpretation, legal manoeuvres and geopolitical […]
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s powerful Security Council, said that Russia will “soon” win military victory in the Ukraine war but the key thing was to prevent any further conflict. “Soon,” Medvedev, who served as Russian president from 2008 to 2012, said, when asked by the WarGonzo Russian war blogger in an interview when […]
A collective bowling effort, highlighted by a superb five-wicket haul from Mohammad Nawaz, powered Pakistan to a crushing 111-run victory over Australia in the third and final T20 International at the Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday, completing a 3-0 whitewash in the home series. The emphatic win provided Pakistan with a major confidence boost ahead of […]