Will the rescue of the hostages be the positive turning point between Pak-US relations?

News Analysis | The Pakistan Army rescued a five-member American-Canadian family in an Intelligence-Based Operation (IBO) in the areas adjacent to the frontier region of...

India’s Apex Court rules that sex with a child bride is ‘rape’

News Analysis | In a landmark ruling, on Wednesday, Indian Supreme Court has termed the Child marriage a social evil which endangers the health and...

Pakistan’s economy: Growing or declining?

News Analysis | The State Bank of Pakistan has issued a report on the performance and state of the economy for the year 2016-17. The economic...

Deepika Padukone is not ashamed to talk about her depression

Depression should not be a taboo subject. It is preventable, says Deepika Padukone, famous Bollywood actress. She shared these views, in an interview given...

Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal

You can’t take pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night  The ban has been in place for a while now, but as France becomes more aggressive...

Is Pakistan China’s darling?

Mudassir Saeed Laghari | Pakistan is now China’s darling. At least one recently-published report says so. According to a years-long study published by the College...

What does CIA want from President Trump on JFK assassination? 

Jacob G. Hornberger | There are now two weeks left before the National Archives releases CIA records relating to the President Kennedy assassination, records that...

Are Hindu women being radicalized by RSS?

News Analysis | The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has dismissed reports that quoted its chief spokesperson (Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh) Manmohan Vaidya as saying that...

Rowdiness at Court: Nawaz, Maryam & Capt. Safdar could not be indicted even today?

News Analysis | Judge Mohammad Bashir, of the Accountability Court, today was again forced to delay the indictment of Maryam Nawaz and her husband, Capt....

Is US running out of friends?

M K Bhadrakumar | An amazing week is unfolding in West Asian politics. It began with three dramatic developments on Monday – Turkish troops crossing...

New rules of engagement between US & Pakistan

Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The arrogant cum undiplomatic tone of Trump administration high-ups’ is distressing for Islamabad. Instead of realizing Pakistan’s limitations and appreciating...

Philippine strategy to combat homegrown terrorism

Jumel G. Estrañero | While the urban warfare drills were pushed through between U.S. and RP during 10 days of military exercises that wrapped up...