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A prominent Pakistani-American businessman has pledged to fund journalism undergraduate scholarship through Pakistani-American Press Association, a newly formed body of journalists. Mossadaq Chughtai said at an event on Saturday he will contribute a minimum of $...

The United States and Pakistan have a lot to gain by working with each other, a senior aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, said while speaking at a Pakistan Day event at the country’s embassy in...

The downslide in U.S.-Pakistan relations that began with President Donald Trump’s Twitter tirade against Islamabad, seems to have stopped, or at least halted. Washington and Islamabad have taken the route of constructive diplomacy with exchange visits...

Amid raging insurgency in Indian-controlled Kashmir, former prime minister Manmohan Singh has accused the ultrantionalist Narendra Modi government of failure to address troubles in the disputed territory – also a scene of worsening Pakistan-India shelling. Singh,...

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...

After weeks of tough diplomacy between the United States and Pakistan, a series of American statements and actions this week show Washington is being receptive to Pakistan’s security concerns vis-a-vis Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, the U.S. reportedly...

A person falsely accusing anyone of being involved in blasphemous expression or action must get the same punishment as set forth for the convicted, a Senate Special Committee on Human Rights recommended Tuesday. The Upper House...

Kashmir region 2004 Photo: CIA/Wikimedia Commons Amid exchange of fire across Kashmir’s Line of Control, uprising against Indian repression of the Kashmiris and the latest attacks on an Indian military base in the disputed region, Indian...

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...