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Faced with intensified cyberattacks, Pakistan is nearing the completion of its own new messaging app for communication among key officials. Pakistan’s information technology ministry has completed 60 percent development work of the country’s own messaging app...

Pakistan has become one of the first few countries outside the developed world to produce homemade COVID-19 vaccine “PakVac”, a week after Islamabad announced it had successfully accomplished the process of making the preventive medicine with...

Pakistan’s COVID-19-induced economic boom is not just about a jump in its traditionally largest textile exporting base. Technology exports are also leaping ahead with a sizzling momentum. For a country confronted with many longstanding economic challenges,...

A new report has documented what was known commonly – many countries wasted time in taking preventive measures to keep the coronavirus pandemic from spreading globally. In its study, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and...

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...

Eleven people were killed and dozens injured in violent protests that raged during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Dhaka on the occasion of the golden jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh’s independence. Protestors including members of...

Pakistan’s iconic mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara, who along with Iceland’s John Snorri Sigurjónsson and Chile’s Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto, had gone missing about two weeks ago during their attempt to scale the world’s second-highest peak K2,...

In a landmark space stride, NASA’s largest and most advanced rover sent yet to another world has touched down on Mars as scientists hailed the effort to collect Mars samples and return them to Earth. The Perseverance...

The world needs to work together as a tipping point in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic nears amid growing infections across countries and continents, says the World Health Organization. “We were prepared for a challenging...