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A day after Nawaz Sharif relinquished prime minister’s office – in line with a Supreme Court verdict in a corruption case– Pakistan seems to have averted political instability. Sharif’s brother Shahbaz Sharif, a longtime chief minister...

PML (N) leader Nawaz Sharif resigned as prime minister following Supreme Court’s decision on corruption charges that disqualified him as holder of the elected office for not declaring his property as required by the law. The...

The United Nations Security Council has condemned “in the strongest terms” Monday’s deadly terrorist attack in Lahore, emphasizing that the perpetrators be held accountable.  The statement came after a car bombing in the heart of Pakistan...

Twenty six people including seven members of anti-riot police and a woman were killed and another 40 injured when a bomb exploded near abandoned Fruit and Vegetable market on Monday afternoon. According to Police, the bombing...

Photo by Mstyslav Chernov via Wikimedia Commons Iraqi army convoy in Northern Iraq in 2016 Pakistan helped Iraq in a number of ways in the Arab country’s fight against the ISIS or Daesh, which this week...

Refusing to accept a string a raft of blistering corruption accusations by a Supreme Court-mandated probe team, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is in no mood to listen to the Opposition calls to quit the office. Sharif’s...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan Photo : Khalid Mahmood/Wikimedia Raising a big question mark over the political future of Pakistan’s ruling Nawaz Sharif family, a Court-mandated Joint Investigation Team that looked into Panamagate allegations against the...

Japanese motor brands have dominated the Pakistani highways and roads for decades but now a Pakistani automobile company has started exporting traditional rickshaws to the quality conscious market of Japan. In an encouraging sign for the...

Friday’s bombings came almost out of the blue, although incidents of terrorism could not have been completely unexpected, given the tense situation in the region, and the rise of militancy in Afghanistan. After a marked improvement...

Reacting to the Afghan assertion of foreign support for the Taliban insurgency, Pakistan has told the U.N. Security Council that the Afghan Taliban’s “safe havens” are inside Afghanistan and not outside of the conflict-hit country –...