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How can people in Gaza live in peace while being under an everlasting state of siege?
The president-elect has made some audacious claims.
THE new year has not brought much hope for an end to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, which has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians since it began...
THE two adversaries have finally agreed to come to the negotiating table. The ruling PML-N and the opposition PTI seem to have taken a step back...
FOLLOWING a nod from the apex court, a Field General Court Martial (FGCM) has announced its decision to sentence 25 PTI supporters to varying terms...
IT has been a decade since the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, which killed some 150 students and staff in December 2014. It was the...
https://arab.news/84yw9 Something unthinkable has happened in Pakistan amid deepening political turmoil. A once powerful spy master and...
YET another authoritarian regime has fallen. The Syrian rebellion has swept away the Assad family’s 53-year tyrannical rule. It was a protracted...
“It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.” — Franz Kafka It was well over midnight when the...
A PANICKING administration is desperately trying to prevent raging crowds from storming the capital, breaking through all the barriers on their...
IT could not have been more bizarre: the government is taking its war against social media to a new level. After banning X, the government now...
https://arab.news/mdjyw Smog has again hit both sides of the border with devastating effect as winter sets in, prompting calls for joint efforts by...
AFTER silently watching Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza for the past one year, the leaders of the Arab and Muslim countries have once more met in...
IT was yet another bizarre night. In less than an hour, the government managed to steamroll a series of laws through both Houses of Parliament amid...
Mr Zahid Hussain is a retired engineer, based in Canada. “India and Pakistan fighting over Kashmir are like two bald men fighting for a comb,”...
BARELY a week after bulldozing a controversial constitutional amendment through parliament, the ruling coalition is said to be deliberating a new...
IT was the darkest night of the country’s parliamentary history. The spectacle of two opposition lawmakers from Balochistan — one on a wheelchair...
THE recent three-day Pashtun Qaumi Jirga in Jamrud was a reflection of the anguish of people who have suffered in a conflict that has ravaged KP...
https://arab.news/95ku5 Pakistan is hosting the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting of ten regional...
“NO administration has helped Israel more than I have. None, none, none,” remarked US President Joe Biden recently as Israel’s genocidal war in...
IT has gone beyond polemics. The internal fracas has split the country’s top judiciary. While tensions had been simmering for a long time, the...
THE country seems to be heading towards a constitutional breakdown as state institutions clash within and among themselves. A defiant government...
WHAT happened inside and outside parliament last weekend was nothing less than a tragicomedy. Rarely has Pakistani politics stooped so low. Some...
https://arab.news/czqdh Pakistan’s deputy prime minister has accused the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of deliberately delaying the...
THE latest wave of arrests of senior PTI leaders following the party’s recent show of strength in Islamabad is a reminder of the escalating...
THERE have been few instances in Pakistan’s history where an army chief has bowed out without generating controversy. This might not be surprising...
IN a sign of the times, the once all-powerful spymaster is facing court-martial proceedings. Retired Lt-Gen Faiz Hameed is being charged for misuse...
It was a great achievement for Pakistan's star athlete, Arshad Nadeem, to win a gold medal in the javelin throw event at the Paris 2024 Olympics and...
https://arab.news/5nsyx Pakistan’s strategically located western province of Balochistan was once again in the eye of the storm for two weeks,...
PEOPLE’S power has toppled one more authoritarian regime. Another bloody day in Bangladesh ended in triumph for the uprising in that country....
PEOPLE’S power has toppled one more authoritarian regime. Another bloody day in Bangladesh ended in triumph for the uprising in that country....
EVENTS in Balochistan have been extremely disturbing of late. The past few days alone have brought tensions in the troubled region to a head. The...
AFTER months of silence, we heard from the military’s spokesperson. The televised presser was supposed to be a briefing on counterterrorism...
IT is a desperate move that may bring down the entire edifice. The plan to ban the most popular political party in the country is the most...
https://arab.news/wauut Amid international outcry over forced expulsions, Pakistan has decided to grant a one-year extension in the stay of...