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Saturday, January 18, 2025

Baby Donald Trump causes a stir in Afghanistan

AFP | Donald Trump flops over his pink and white baby walker and rolls it around his family's modest home in Kabul, blissfully unaware of...

Orange Train: When a government’s priorities doesn’t match people’s needs!

Farrukh Saleem | The government of Punjab is spending Rs 162 billion for the transportation of 250,000 residents of Lahore. Question: How much is Rs 162...

Top officials scramble to make Trump-Kim summit a reality

AFP | Senior officials staged a flurry of calls and top-level meetings on Friday as they scrambled to make a proposed nuclear summit between US...

‘The mighty Xi’ gets second term with powerful ally as VP

AFP | China's rubber-stamp parliament unanimously handed President Xi Jinping a second term Saturday and elevated his right-hand man to the vice presidency, giving him...

Taliban claims deadly car bomb attack in Kabul

AFP | A suicide attacker blew up a bomb-laden vehicle in Kabul on Saturday, killing at least two civilians and wounding several others, an Afghan...

The Syrian quagmire: Bloody war continues

AFP | Syrian civilians in the last rebel-held pockets of besieged Eastern Ghouta have been urged to flee as Russia-backed regime forces storm into the...

Polish Ice Warriors tell of defeat by Pakistan’s Savage Mountain

AFP | Pummelled by weeks of hurricane-force blizzards and sub-zero temperatures -- not to mention high-altitude disputes -- the elite climbers known as Poland's Ice...

“Pakistan’s “Kaliyug” began 5th July 1977″?

Dr. Farid A Malik | India Since 1526 is a classic of Indian history written by Vidya Dhar Mahajan (V. D. Mahajan). Babar’s invasion of...

Philippines tells UN it will quit ICC

AFP | The Philippines said on Friday it had given official notice to exit the treaty that created the International Criminal Court, which is examining...

How to spot a liar within seconds

Brian Lee | Lying is pretty high up on the list of negative traits. No one likes to find out they’ve been deceived, yet it’s...

Japan’s isolated older ‘hikikomori’ shun society for years

AFP | Ikeida leaves the house once every three days to buy food, shuns deliveries to avoid human interaction and has not seen his parents...

The Cold War between Iran and Saudi Arabia

AFP | Relations between Middle East heavyweights Iran and Saudi Arabia have been fraught for decades as they spar over regional influence and religion. Each...