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Lahore-Delhi train, bus services suspended
LAHORE: Train and bus services between Pakistan and India have been suspended temporarily following deadly communal riots in a north Indian state, officials said...
U.S., Israel start joint drill on ballistic missile defense
JERUSALEM, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Israel and the United States started a joint exercise on Sunday focusing on defense against the threat of ballistic...
US dominates global weapons sale amid increasing imports
According to a new study published Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the volume of international transfers of major weapons, including...
CPEC challenge
THE China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has become a contentious political issue. Recently, the KP chief minister reproached the centre and Punjab. He said CPEC’s western...
US hopes to host Sharif-Modi meeting
WASHINGTON: The United States has said that it would support any decision to hold a meeting between Pakistani and Indian prime ministers in the...
Death by drone strike, dished out by algorithm
Guns don’t kill people,” is the standard refrain of the National Rifle Association every time there is a mass shooting atrocity in the US....
A shift from hard to soft targets
On January 20, four attackers sneaked into the Palosa Campus of Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, from its rear wall. After neutralising the little resistance...
Stigmatize and Prohibit: New UN Talks on Nuclear Weapons Start Today
When North Korea tested a nuclear weapon in January, condemnation from all around the world flowed within minutes. A week later, the United States...
The next UN secretary general
BY the end of 2016, when Ban Ki-moon’s second term ends, the UN General Assembly will appoint the next secretary general “upon the recommendation...
Pakistan is emerging as a nation, as a power, slowly but steadily
While students and teachers at Bacha Khan University, near Charsadda in Pakistan, were busy with a poetry recital commemorating the death anniversary of Khan...