By Hamdan Ahmed After widening Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) strategic agenda, particularly focusing on limiting China in the Asian-Pacific region, the United States announced the Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022. The strategy has set up some ambiguous yet interesting objectives for the Indo-Pacific region, which was a battleground for the US-China economic and strategic competition lately and has now become …

Senator Farhatullah Babar says a new instrument of law to redefine the mandate of ISI and to bring the intelligence agencies under the ambit of the constitution to tackle the issue.

It should also provide guarantees that those deprived of liberty are kept at a fully authorized place of detention, provide protection to victims, their families and witnesses and also compensation to them.

Baloch students and activists are also among those booked By Inayat Amir The Islamabad police have registered a sedition case against National Assembly member Mohsin Dawar, human rights activist Imaan Mazari and several Baloch students for attending a sit-in protest. The Baloch students were protesting harassment and racial profiling of Baloch students in various higher education institutes across the country. …

Islamabad: Former political prisoner and AWP leader Baba Jan delivered a charged speech on the occasion. Political and social activists have called for a thorough debate on a draft bill on Gilgit-Baltistan’s constitutional status before placing it in the Parliament for a vote. They were speaking at a dialogue on the “Constitutional status of GB: challenges and opportunities,” organized by …

By Rozina Parveen When the horrors of life outway the terrors of death a man commits suicide — Albert Camus Suicide cases are on the rise in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. According to media reports in Pakistan 20 people, mostly female, aged between 15 and 35 years, take their lives every day. According to studies and survey reports, there has been …

The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has demanded an apology from Prime Minister Imran Khan over leveling allegations against the media and journalists in a public meeting in Malakand on Sunday where he alleged that media houses were receiving funds for campaigning against the PTI government.  While showing astonishment and anger at Prime Minister’s ‘baseless’ remarks, and that too …

News Desk Lahore: Aurat March Lahore organizers have filed a writ petition before the Lahore High Court (LHC), calling for women’s right to march on International Women’s Day (08 March) to be protected. For its part, the city administration did not reply to the Aurat March organizers’ intimation of the upcoming event. In fact, the Additional Deputy Commissioner for Lahore …

By Inayat Amir Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court has restrained the capital police from arresting a human rights defender, a journalist, and Baloch students on sedition and criminal conspiracy charges. The court put on notice the secretaries of interior and human rights ministries, the capital’s chief commissioner, and top cop to appear before the court on Monday and justify the …

A special cultural and musical gala was held last week marking the conclusion of year-long festivities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan.

Art classes, sculpting, calligraphy, music, and even yoga psychotherapy are on offer by the Herat Online School.

the Swedish Academy pointed out Gurnah's "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents,"

Donors, govt officials deliberate strategy for effective implementation of 5-year TVET programme in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Officially, Covid-19 has killed over 4 million people. But it is undercounted and the actual toll is something around 15 to 18 million, writes The Economist in its latest exclusive report on the pandemic. Officially, covid-19 has killed around 4.5m people. But according to our own model, that is a dramatic undercount: we estimate that the actual death toll is …

Chief Court says all members have equal rights on development funds; disposes of a petition directs opposition members to approach SAC for early hearing of an identical case.

I offer my continuing condolences to the families of the passengers and crew, who have still to learn any details of their loved ones’ fate. I often wonder who among the standby passengers was given my seat (no doubt to their delight), thereby inadvertently trading their life for mine.