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Imran Khan has turned to foreign media, shows gas shells fired at his house

He spoke to CNN, BBC Urdu, Sky News and Al Jazeera about his predicament.

Pakistani celebrities bat for ‘Kaptaan’ Imran Khan, warn the ‘sham’ arrest will unite country

The drama has been unfolding at Imran Khan’s residence in Zaman Park since Tuesday afternoon when a team of Islamabad police officers landed up to arrest him.

The Toshkhana declaration—Musharraf liked dinner sets, Nawaz Mercedes, Imran picked pens

Toshakhana gifts came under the scanner when PM Shehbaz Sharif accused Imran Khan of selling gifts worth PKR 140 million during the latter’s prime ministership.

Malala wins hearts at Oscars 2023. Then gives host Jimmy Kimmel a lesson on ‘kindness’

Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai was at Oscars 2023 for 'Stranger at the Gate', which lost Best Short Documentary Film award to India's 'The Elephant Whisperers'.

Pakistani TV celebrity’s auto rickshaw ride goes wrong. People are calling out her elitism

The current economic crisis in Pakistan has made the class divide starker. Ashraf’s comments have provided fresh fodder for the debate.

Pakistan is reeling from an HIV outbreak — Sindh province sees 21 cases in a week

The virus is seeping into the general population in Sindh. Poverty and lax governance the root cause.

Pakistan gets its first digital census. But it’s being called futile, govt fraud

Activists argue that the new digital process should be made accessible to include previously excluded or undercounted groups such as transgenders and ethnic minorities.

Hina Rabbani Khar says India getting a ‘generous supply of weapons’. Even Pakistanis aren’t cheering

Khar said the largest country in the region continues to be a beneficiary of nuclear exceptionalism.

This Pakistani groom needs no IMF bailout. He wore a dollar garland on his wedding

Reports in Pakistani media quoted sources to suggest that the garland Zaman presented to his personal assistant was valued at over PKR 25,00,000.

Pakistani TV drama talks about transgender child. Fashion designer says country sold its soul

'No one is born a trans', 'no one has the urge to be intersex', 'it can lead to increased pedophilia', Maria B. said in response to Adeel Bhatti's TV series Sar-e-Rah.

On Camera

Two documents, Modi-Macron visits—India-France defence partnership is touching new heights

Horizon 2047 signed during Modi's visit to France in July 2023 and the defence industrial roadmap during Macron’s visit to India in January 2024 guide the strategic bonhomie between the two countries.

How govt brought Vodafone Idea back from the brink & earned a neat profit in the process

In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.