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On Monday, the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made a pledge that the Pakistani government would construct laws that would eliminate “evil” Honour Killings during a meeting with the renowned social activist and director Shameen Obaid-Chinoy as he congratulated her on her Oscar nomination for a disturbing and vivid documentary on the practice. “Social evils can be […]
Republican front-runner Donald Trump reacts to Pope Francis’ comments on his plan to build a wall along the Mexican border from Texas to California and deport all 11 million illegal migrants from the country. The Pope, who’d just finished praying for the migrants who died trying to cross over the Mexico-US border just hours before, […]
Armed forces and military personnel from over 20 countries converged in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for what is the largest military exercise campaign in the region’s history. Dubbed “The Thunder of the North” the exercise includes ground, air, and naval drills and is generally seen as a showcase of the Saudi Arabia’s weight in the […]
The Milli Yakjehti Council (MYC) has condemned the Sindh governments plans to centralize Friday sermons for all Mosques in the province. The MYC stated that the province was following Saudi Arabia in this regard and this is not correct. Professor Ibrahim Khan, the head of the Khutbat-i-Juma commission said that it is not the governments place […]
Speaking at a joint session of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Kashmir Day, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told the attendants that dialogue is the solution regarding all issues including that of the dispute over Kashmir between India and Pakistan.PM Sharif added that although it is not unusual for disputes to arise between two […]
Pakistan’s high commissioner in Bangladesh, was summoned by Bangladeshi authorities amid a deteriorating diplomatic standoff between the two countries. Current tensions were triggered by executions of two Bangladeshi opposition leaders convicted of crimes against humanity during the 1971 war also known as the Bangladeshi Liberation war. Pakistan’s foreign ministry subsequently condemned the executions and criticized the Bangladeshi government for breaking agreements […]
Iranian military personnel claimed to have successfully flew a Surveillance drone over American Aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman based in Virginia currently operating the Gulf to support operations against the Islamic State Terrorist Group in Iraq and Syria. The Persian Gulf has been the source of tensions recently between the US and Iran despite […]
Transparency International, “TI” a global civil society organization listed Pakistan as the only country among the member nations of the South-Asian Association of Regional Cooperation commonly known as the “Saarc” community that made significant improvements in its Corruption Perceptions Index as compared to its scoring last year. The other member countries all scored the same […]
Landmark legislation in the form of the Pakistan Halal Authority Bill 2015 was passed on Monday. The Bill was approved by the Senate Standing Committee on science and Technology at a committee meeting chaired by Senator Usman Saifullah. It was approved by all stakeholders after all outstanding issues had been worked out. The Minister for […]
On Friday New Zealand trampled Pakistan by 95 runs in Twenty20’s in Wellington. Corey Anderson beat his personal record by whacking an 82 not out with two wickets returning from injury and missing the first half of the New Zealand summer. In the end, the series went 2-1 in favor of New Zealand with a […]
The rupture of diplomatic relations between one of the most powerful Sunni Muslim countries or some would say the most eminent Sunni country (as the custodian of the two Holy Mosques), Saudi Arabia, and one the most powerful Shiite Muslim countries Iran, undoubtedly has spin- of effects across the wider middle east. The Prospect of […]
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif left for Saudi Arabia on Monday. The reason given for their departure to Saudi Arabia is to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The two leaders traveled on the same flight and they are also scheduled to visit Tehran in an attempt to mitigate tensions […]
