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THE evolution of the Pakistan-Afghanistan relationship has always been inconsistent, and rooted in deep mistrust, blame games, propaganda, conspiracy theories, perpetual external interference and repeated cycles of violence. The bilateral equation has experienced many irritants, each having abundant...
ECONOMIC discourse in this country, especially with folks in governance circles, can throw up some very interesting — as well as disturbing — insights. A recent conversation brought up the interesting case of a preference for the ‘China model’. What is their conception of this model? Briefly, ...
SEPTEMBER emerged as a politically charged month. The PTI and Jamaat-i-Islami announced their plans for long marches on Islamabad. The simultaneous mobilisation by the two parties had raised concerns about potentially prolonged street protests and disruptions in the capital. However, both parties po...
Clutching a photograph of his missing son, Rajesh Ram is pinning his hopes on DNA testing — like thousands of others desperately seeking relatives swept away by Nepal’s catastrophic Himalayan floods. “I searched for him everywhere, but I could not find his body,” 53-year-old Ram told AFP, still wait...
KHYBER: Hostile socio-economic conditions, acute shortage of residential facilities and an impending harsh winter in Afghanistan have greatly hampered the repatriation of illegal Afghan nationals to their country via the Torkham border since early September. Official sources in Torkham told Dawn tha...
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday it is investigating a possible terrorist link to an apparent attempt by a co-pilot to crash a flydubai passenger jet headed to Israel. The dramatic events on Wednesday ended with the plane making an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia and passenger...
The unprecedented botched execution of a woman in Tennessee has reignited the debate over execution methods in the United States — which varies from lethal injection to firing squads. Methods used in the US Methods vary by state. States carry out the vast majority of executions, while federal execut...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday signalled a cautious shift in its approach to the newly imposed US sanctions on Iran, saying it would adhere to “all applicable sanctions regimes” under international and domestic law, a formulation that goes beyond Islamabad’s earlier emphasis on international law an...
• Balochistan accounts for nearly 59pc of total fatalities in third quarter of 2026 • CRSS records 1,415 deaths, 558 injuries across 385 incidents • TTP becomes deadliest group, inflicting 117 deaths ISLAMABAD: Pakistan recorded a sharp 83 per cent increase in violence-linked fatalities during the ...
• Describes cuts as ‘accountability’, while critics call them a purge• Musk set to co-lead Pentagon Project Meridian, a study on future of warfare WASHINGTON: Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the United States has slashed the number of its generals and admirals by 20 per ce...
Arab Israeli politician Sami Abu Shehadeh withdrew his candidacy on Thursday from October’s parliamentary election after Israel’s Supreme Court indicated a majority of its judges supported barring him from the race. Arab Israeli parties are seen by political analysts as potential kingmakers in the O...
• US president warns strikes against Tehran could resume after midterms; Washington sanctions Iran’s top carmakers, rail operators• Pezeshkian says his country is open to dialogue; Putin hopes the strait reopens, says Russia’s offer to take enriched uranium still stands PRESIDENT Donald Trump reject...
