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Pakistan’s political scenario is evolving rapidly ahead of what is expected to be an intense election season this year. On Monday, the Senate elected its first chairman from the strategic minerals-filled southwestern province of  Balochistan –...

Pakistan’s top career diplomat Tehmina Janjua on Thursday renewed her country’s demand that the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue be revived to advance bilateral  cooperation in wide-ranging areas as the two countries attempt to overcome trust deficit in...

Photo: Screenshot/JS Bank YouTube Pakistan will appoint Ali Jehangir Siddiqui as the country’s new ambassador to the United States as Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi approved nomination of the prominent businessman for the key posting, reports citing...

Pakistan’s Parliament took a significant step toward inclusive democracy on Saturday, when the upper chamber elected its first woman senator from the Hindu community of the Muslim majority nation. Krishna Kumari, who hails from southern Pakistan’s...

UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras The United States is paying tribute to the memory of Pakistani human rights champion Asma Jahangir, calling her untimely death of the global icon as a “great loss to the world.” “We join...

UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres paid tribute to Pakistani human rights champion, who passed away in Lahore on Sunday, calling her a “human rights giant” In addition to her lifelong struggles for rights of...

Photo: Asma_Jahangir_Four_Freedoms_Awards/Wikimedia Commons Views and News Editorial She stood like a rock against two military regimes, entrenched societal injustices and the militant mindset – and on all these fronts she achieved remarkable success as a champion...

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari speaks to the media in Washington D.C. Photo Credit: VOA Fighting terrorism in Afghanistan and the region requires effective cooperation among allies, Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari argued here...

Pakistan’s economic and security gains were at risk from continued Afghan instability, and it is in the country’s interest to work with the United States to help bring peace to Afghanistan, a top Pakistani official said....

In a loud pronouncement against militant mindset, an anti-terrorist court in northwestern Pakistani district of Haripur Wednesday sentenced killers and instigators of lynching of a student Mashal Khan after he was wrongfully accused of blasphemy. The...