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Cricketer Shahid Afridi on wildlife department’s radar for his photos with lion at home

Sikh rights activist alleged murderer arrested; Musharraf barred from contesting polls

Imran Khan goes on a barefoot religious trip to Saudi Arabia with wife Bushra Maneka

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistan’s transgenders to debut in election; Karachi is the hottest assembly seat.

Imran Khan to compete with a 100-year-old woman for the elections

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Former senator talks ‘quiet coup’, and Pakistani cinema gets its first transgender actor.

Smartphones have killed a Ramzan tradition dating back to the Prophet’s time

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Shahid Afridi may have a pet lion and deer, and Pakistanis are going all out for charity this festive season.

Imran Khan is being taken to court over his ‘love child’ by a former chief justice

Here’s what’s happening across the border: A former chief justice is taking Imran to court over his ‘love child’, and media pay mess has SC seething.

Former PM Sharif questions SC’s judgment to allow Musharraf to contest elections

A university in Pakistan has forced a student to apologise for a hate tweet, and global press body has condemned the country for curbing press freedom.

Bill Gates thanks Pakistan’s army chief Bajwa for military’s effort in fighting polio

Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa receives phone call from US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, and there’s a Pakistan connection to FIFA 2018.

Politicians & journalists in Pakistan condemn image of assaulted scribe soaked in blood

Here's what's happening across the border: Pakistan-origin author wins coveted Women's Prize for Fiction, while military cracks down in north Waziristan.

Pakistan journalist Gul Bukhari who criticised army returns home after she was abducted

Here's what's happening across the border: Stay order issued on Reham Khan's autobiography, while chief justice Nisar takes suo moto notice of convict in Khadija...

Influential PTI supporters file case against Reham Khan for her ‘defamatory’ autobiography

Asif Ghafoor accuses Pashtun Tahafuz Movement of being foreign-funded, while Nawaz Sharif says everything was normal during his regime.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.