Even before JD Vance reached Islamabad, he was already everywhere in Pakistan — eating nihari, getting a degree, watching his used T-shirt being sold in Sunday market, and being asked for his nikahnaama.
Veteran journalist Abbas Nasir cites advertising pressure and threats to editorial independence in the final column, which focussed on tensions in the Persian Gulf.
A Lahore court ordered musician Meesha Shafi to pay 5 million PKR as compensation to Ali Zafar. The ruling stems from a dispute that became Pakistan’s most prominent #MeToo case.
Analyst Burhan-ud-din Awan said that Pakistan’s ‘backdoor diplomacy and foreign policy, supported by Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir’ have played a significant role in bringing Iran to the negotiating table.
Rimsha Colony, one of the largest informal settlements in Islamabad, is home to thousands of working-class residents, many of them Christians employed as sanitation workers and domestic labourers.
Aimal Wali Khan, the leader of the Awami National Party, has long spoken out against the cross-border tensions between the Taliban and Islamabad, and Pakistan's support for the regime in Kabul.
Some Pakistanis expressed their anger against the Pakistani military, with one user saying that ‘the generals have failed at everything they have done since 2022 and they will continue to fail’.
Local reports said Hamza Ahmad Khan told his sister that he was in the custody of Pakistan’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency, detained in connection with ‘defamatory posts’ made online.
Pakistan’s decision to withdraw the boycott came after an ICC delegation held meetings with PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi regarding the team’s participation in the ICC T20 match against India.
Since the region beyond NJ 9842 did not have any military presence and had not seen any action neither side contemplated that it would become a bone of contention in the future.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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