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Pakistanis living abroad welcomed Islamabad’s move to allow them to be participants in the political fortunes of their country of origin with the grant of the right to vote in general elections. Prime Minister Imran Khan...

In a promising development for entrepreneurship, Pakistani businesses would now be able to use the global e-commerce platform Amazon to sell their products from within the country after the giant platform added the South Asian country...

Pakistan has finally okayed its first indigenously developed intensive care unit ventilator as the country recorded the highest number of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Wednesday, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan approved the equipment...

Akbar Ahmed, Pawan Bali   It is a more recent tale of two letters:  On Pakistan’s 70th National Day, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi penned a note to his Pakistani counterpart, expressing the desire for a...

India continues to face record numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths as a torrid wave of the coronavirus pandemic tested the limits of its healthcare system. In the last three days, India, the second worst-hit country...

The United States says it backs direct dialogue between India and Pakistan on “issues of concern” as Islamabad linked the resumption of trade with its neighbor on New Delhi’s rollback of its 2019 unilateral decisions on the...

For a while, a breakthrough in ossified Pakistan-India relations seemed well underway. Signs of a rapprochement began with a late February reinstitution of a long-dormant cease-fire agreement along the Line of Control, the de facto border...

Popular Punjabi folk singer Shaukat Ali passed away in Lahore after liver failure on Friday, leaving behind a legacy of passion-filled singing that included classic Punjabi poem, Kalam-e-Iqbal and ghazals. Ali’s protracted illness was the result...

In a bid to ensure optimal utilization of its ever depleting water resources, Pakistan has embarked upon building eight mega hydel projects that would help double its water storage capacity. Officials say the new dams will...

Prime Minister Imran Khan easily won a vote of confidence from the National Assembly, the lower house of the parliament, on Saturday, days after his finance minister’s defeat in this week’s Senate elections. Khan, who is...