Pak win in Asian Youth Girls Netball

Pakistan got off to a flying start at the Asian Youth Girls Netball Championship 2025, thrashing Saudi Arabia 71-15 in their opening match here at Jeoju, South Korea on Friday. The national side, featured standout performances by Lia Raza Shah, Alisha Naveed, Samia Safdar, Halima, Sareena Hussain, Jasmine Farooq, Farah Rasheed, and Pareesa who displayed […]

Govt basks in two-thirds glory

Finally, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday emerged as the single largest party, with the party and its allies simultaneously securing two-thirds majority in the National Assembly after the Supreme Court allotted reserved seats to the ruling coalition. The current parliamentary as well as political equation in the country changed after the top court […]

Order out of chaos

Master disclaimer: If I manage to cover all disclaimers in this piece, I will get to the core of my argument today. Otherwise, perhaps I will rename it Disclaimers and leave it at that. But you will appreciate these disclaimers are necessary. First disclaimer: The phrase “order out of chaos” (“ordo ab chao” in Latin) […]

Netanyahu denies military ordered troops to fire on Gaza aid seekers

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday rejected a report that the country’s military commanders ordered their soldiers to fire at Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza. Left-leaning daily Haaretz earlier quoted unnamed soldiers as saying commanders ordered troops to shoot at crowds near aid distribution centres to disperse them even when they posed no […]

‘No political space in sight for PTI’

Political space for opposition parties, particularly the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), may have further shrunk after the establishment bolstered its ties with the West, as analysts suggest that the beleaguered party’s chances of making a political comeback during the current regime were virtually nonexistent.  However, they caution that the budding relationship with the Trump administration could […]