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  By Rafay Niazi                                            The IMF’s executive board on Wednesday approved the $US3 billion stand-by agreement for Pakistan to help overcome its current financial challenges. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif …

By Rafay Niazi Pakistan has voiced concerns over the existence of safe havens for terrorists in Afghanistan, urging the Taliban government to take decisive action in dismantling these hideouts as they pose threats to Pakistan’s sovereignty and security. The concerns were voiced in the wake of recent military operations in …

  By Sardar Khan Niazi During the Indian Prime Minister’s three-day visit to the United States, Indian and non-Indian rights groups in the United States have held protests over Modi’s rule being marred by human rights violations, suppression of dissent, and persecution of religious minorities, particularly Muslims and Christians. Protestors …

  By Sardar Khan Niazi Drawing on the dark history of the burning of the Holy Quran, an anti-Muslim far-right provocateur has once again publicly set fire to the Holy Quran in Stockholm. Sweden’s government must call it a hate crime. Pakistan has strongly condemned the despicable act of burning …

BRUSSELS: Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday in a historic shift that drew an angry warning of “countermeasures” from the Kremlin. Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine last year upended Europe’s security landscape and prompted Finland — and its neighbour Sweden — to drop decades of military non-alignment. …

 North Korea has tested a new nuclear-capable underwater attack drone, state media reported on Friday, as leader Kim Jong Un warned joint military drills by South Korea and the US should stop. During the test, the new North Korean drone cruised underwater at a depth of 80 to 150 metres …

PARIS: Journalists had fun last year asking the shiny new AI chatbot ChatGPT to write their columns, most concluding that the bot was not good enough to take their jobs. Yet. But many commentators believe journalism is on the cusp of a revolution where mastery of algorithms and AI tools …

In a tragic incident, a teenager in India died after consuming 45 iron and folic pills at a time as a dare. An Indian news agency reported that 13-year-old Jaiba Fatima of Ooty Municipal Urdu Middle School in Tamil Nadu competed with four classmates on who could consume the most …

    By Zahid Rabbani The first and foremost aim of any economic policy has to be to target and eliminate poverty. Both sides of the political divide can blame each other for the mess but to an outsider, both are culpable as they were short of imagination and ideas …

By Zahid Rabbani The contest for control of parliaments appears to be just as bitter and divisive as the acrimonious race for power in the past. Unfortunately, beneath the surface, the parliamentary battle has been as much about revenge as about transformation. Preoccupation with settling scores has become a prominent …