Narendra Modi may have thought May would bring his finest hour. After successively upping the ante with Pakistan each time militancy revisited Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), his regime had a playbook ready. Pakistan, scapegoated for its own failures in the disputed territory, would be ‘taught a lesson’. So what if the last […]
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan said that at first when someone says let’s impose tariffs on some foreign imports, it looks like they are doing the patriotic thing by protecting the American products and jobs and sometimes for a short while it works but only for a short-time. He went on to say that high […]
Just after midnight on May 7, the screen in the Pakistan Air Force’s operations room lit up in red with the positions of dozens of active enemy planes across the border in India. Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Sidhu had been sleeping on a mattress just off that room for days in anticipation of an Indian […]
Negotiators will take another stab at reaching a global pact on plastic pollution at talks opening Tuesday in Geneva but they face deep divisions over how to tackle the health and ecological hazard. The coming 10 days of talks involving delegates from nearly 180 nations follows a failure to reach a deal last December on […]
Iranian President Dr Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday arrived on a two-day state visit to hold bilateral talks with the Pakistani leadership. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar and Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar received the Iranian President and his delegation at the Nur Khan airbase. Dr […]
Since the passage of the 26th Constitutional Amendment in October last year, the PML-N led federal government has remained largely successful in getting its way in courts. The most significant event is the award of convictions to 204 individuals — belonging to the PTI — in May 9 rioting cases. Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya […]
Five children were killed and 12 others critically injured after a mortar shell they were playing with exploded in the Sarband area of Lakki Marwat, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, on Saturday. According to media reports, the children had found the mortar shell in a field and brought it to their village, mistaking it for a toy. Following the […]
Pak Business Express derailed on Saturday near the washing line area in Lahore, just days after it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. According to Express News, the derailment has not yet been attributed to a specific cause. Railway officials said the train went off track in the early hours, prompting the immediate dispatch […]
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Quetta on Saturday remanded Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) chief Mahrang Baloch and other organisers of the group to police custody for 20 days. The BYC chief’s detention has once again been extended. In March, Mahrang and other members of the BYC were detained on charges of attacking Quetta Civil Hospital […]
PTI founder Imran Khan said in a “clear message” to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur on Saturday that the federation should not be allowed to conduct another military operation in the province and its tribal areas. In a message from Imran posted on Saturday on his X account, which is not operated by him, […]