I was very happy to have Japanese car makers manufacturing their latest cars in Pakistan.
Oil rose on Monday after top crude exporter Saudi Arabia and other Arab states cut ties with Qatar, driving up prices on concerns over increased...
ISLAMABAD: In a major development that may attract $50 billion Chinese investment to Pakistan, Islamabad is expected to sign an MoU with Beijing on...
ISLAMABAD: It has now been three years since the government parked the $1.5-billion Saudi gift in a defunct entity called Infrastructure Projects...
KARACHI: When approvals were handed out for high-rise buildings in Karachi, a lot of departments minted money. The real losers were the residents of...
Chinese companies are in talks to snap up more businesses and land in Pakistan after sealing two major deals in recent months, a sign of deepening...
Would you be willing to visit a country known as the hub of suicide bombers? Where rapists live in each part of the country? Wait. Isn’t Pakistan an...
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif retained his status as a billionaire in the latest information regarding politicians’ net worth released by the...
If the 90s era of Pakistan cricket was known for something, it was talent… wasted talent. For a side that carried match-winners like Wasim Akram,...
I was a teenager when Imran Khan, one of the most famous cricketers our country has produced, lifted the World Cup in 1992. I remember watching the...
In the wake of the recent London attack, nearly 500 imams refused to offer funeral prayers for the terrorists responsible for the atrocity that took...
India could launch a pre-emptive first strike against Pakistan if it feared a nuclear attack was imminent, a leading nuclear strategist has...
February 17, 2017: Within hours of the Sehwan attack, terrorist hideouts are magically discovered all over the country and over a hundred “militants”...
This week, our defence minister Khawaja Asif directed a nuclear threat to Israel in response to a news report that quoted the Israeli defence...
ISLAMABAD: As part of a fresh strategy to prevent incursion of supporters of Taliban and Islamic State through the Afghan border, Pakistan’s armed...
ISLAMABAD: A joint military parade of Pakistan's armed forces will take place on Pakistan Day, sources said on Monday, after a gap of seven years.
PESHAWAR: The Elementary and Secondary Education (E&SE) Department’s sudden decision not to hold centralised examinations of grade-V and...
ISLAMABAD: City managers are in a fix about taking action against 293 private schools functioning in residential areas in violation of the CDA...
KARACHI: All is not well at the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK), it was evident on Tuesday after several staffers, teachers and...
Pakistan has suffered from the worst attacks on education than any country in the world.
Everyone talks about the plight of out-of-school children in Pakistan, but very few seem to be doing something about it. One of those select few is...
LAHORE: Opposition on Monday walked out of the Punjab Assembly to protest against “worst loadshedding in the country’s history” and demanded...
YANGON: Monsoon rains have claimed the lives of hundreds of people across Asia, authorities said on Monday, as rescue workers scrambled to reach...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan are likely to discuss the revival of an agreement between their top spy agencies in a latest move by the two...
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Monday opened a meeting of the Quadrilateral Coordination Committee (QCC)...
ZHENGZHOU: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while attending the 14th Heads of Government Council meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in...
ISLAMABAD: The Afghan government on Wednesday agreed to restart dialogue with ‘reconcilable’ Taliban with the help of Pakistan, the United States and...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Maleeha Lodhi at the UN said that the non-implementation of long-standing...
Today, the trend lines for Jammu and Kashmir are quite troubling, to say the least.
As India’s most restive region stares down the abyss of what a commentator calls another “hot summer of violence”, the doom-laden headline has...
“The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power....
The unanimously approved declaration of the people called for an independent Pakistan to co-exist in peace and harmony with the global nations of the...
The holy month of Ramazan is here and that calls for a steady diet plan for all the rozedars. The pre-dawn meal or sehri is the most important meal...
RAWALPINDI: When the 70-year-old father of Nasir Hussein, a resident of Rawalpindi, went through respiratory failure after combating high blood...
ISLAMABAD: During surprise visits to medical colleges, the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) found the conditions of their teaching...
ISLAMABAD: Over the past few years, the federal capital has become more vulnerable to the polio virus, mainly due to a lack of human resources,...
ISLAMABAD: The chairperson of Technical Advisory Group (TAG), an organisation that advises Pakistan on polio eradication programmes, has suggested...
Five regional cities should be upgraded within the provinces in Pakistan:
ISLAMABAD: Five convicts of the Safoora Goth carnage and Sabeen Mahmud murder cases challenged their death sentence in a military court of appeal on...
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday rejected the post-arrest bail application of Moazzam Ali, an under trial accused in the Dr Imran...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday ordered the removal of former president Pervez Musharraf's name from the Exit Control List (ECL),...
ISLAMABAD: After the concluding argument from the federal government that former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry could not...
ISLAMABAD: Retired Brigadier Amjad Kayani, a brother of former Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, appeared before the National...
KARACHI/HYDERABAD: A day after the expiry of the tenure of Rangers’ special powers, the Pakistan Peoples Party-led provincial government appears to...
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Tuesday moved to consolidate its position amid the ongoing debate on its strained relations with the Pakistan...
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah ordered on Sunday creating of a separate force to provide foolproof security to the judiciary in the...
PESHAWAR: As active combat operations are reaching their ultimate end, the Army has assumed the monitoring role in education and health sectors in...
KARACHI: While taking notice of visible improvement in law and order in the province with the coordinated efforts of the Rangers and police, the...
There’s a war on in Pakistan and it’s largely existentialist in nature. It’s a war for the mind, body and soul of the idea that drove the ‘Pakistan...
The Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani issued statements regarding child marriages and polygamy in...
Consuming pork is sinful and forbidden in Islam. However, Islamic law does not prescribe whipping or incarceration to those who consume pork. The...
The nightmare of exodus as a result of the Great Divide of India in Aug. 1947 did not efface the bitter memories even after its subsequent march...
Gold is an important part of our culture. Brides receive gold as wedding gift, as jewelry, which they use and store with them during their lives.
The UNO originated from the belief and commitment to avert futuristic wars by men of new ideas pursuing peaceful means, diplomacy and accountability...
Human nature longs for peace and harmony not violence and conflict. Nobody can invent peace, it needs to be discovered out of the planned efforts to...
TTP has ended its one month long cease fire, announcing it would not resume attacks against the public but will only act in self defense.
ISLAMABAD: The joint investigation team (JIT) probing the Sharif family’s offshore wealth has told the Supreme Court that not only have some...
With the sidelining of MQM founder Altaf Hussain after his controversial speech on August 22 in which he made derogatory remarks against the country...
ISLAMABAD: Relying on the ‘revelations’ made in certain interviews and a book, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) intends to open up a shady chapter...
To provoke a somnolent establishment into action, your message has to be blunt. There cannot be a more blunt warning to India’s political leadership...
The Nolan brothers are a great team; they have teamed up for some impressive films such as The Dark Night Trilogy, producing ground-breaking action...
The start of holy month of Moharram witnesses a serious debate regarding Shia Islam amongst the Sunni Muslims of Pakistan. Unfortunately in many of...
We are living in the 21st century, yet our minds are held in the Stone Age. We consider ourselves true Muslims by giving minorities their right, but...
Recently the kingdom of Brunei Darussalam announced it would adopt sharia. It is the first country in Southeast Asia to do so.
Mudassir Sheikha is the CEO and co-founder of ride-hailing app Careem, one of the hottest startups on the Asian continent.
Imagine if you could visit any online retailer in the world, buy what you like and have it delivered to your doorstep in Karachi or Lahore in a week.
There are several opposing views regarding technology and how it has influenced the way people collaborate. In Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky...
So far, probably you might have heard about latest PTCL’s Smart TV app that got unveiled last week offering AD-free live streaming of whole cricket...
Many of the people I interview for Aurora love to hold forth about how work is their life, that they never stop thinking about it and profess undying...
Pakistan are so beautifully unpredictable that even we here at The Express Tribune cannot predict them. This is the eulogy we had written when they...
Pakistan losing to India in International Cricket Council (ICC) tournaments is now becoming a norm in international cricket, much to the...
Indo-Pak match is a genuine all-time classic of cricket rivalry; one which is huge enough to impassion the two nations. It is unfortunate that, in...
Come June 4, 930 GMT, the lives of more than 1.5 billion people will come to a standstill.
NORTH CAROLINA: Pakistan gave two of the their retiring legends Misbahul Haq and Younus Khan a fitting farewell after beating West Indies for the...
KARACHI: Director General ISPR Asim Bajwa said Awais Shah was recovered from his kidnappers who had made him wear a burqa in order to transport him...
Pakistan is facing terrorist activities for more than a decade, terrorist activities raised dramatically after drone attack in Bajor school 2006...
“Nobody can predict which way the ‘Arab Awakening’ will turn this year… Over the decades of unchallenging aggressive adventures in Iraq, Afghanistan,...
Is America at war with itself? For more than a decade, American-led war on terrorism continues from Afghanistan to Iraq, Syria and soon to other oil...
“Throughout history, oppressed people have been overwhelmed and immobilized by the seeming indestructibility of the military establishment in power....
Blowing trumpets, doves flying overhead and the awaiting red carpet. To many, this scenery invokes fairy tales of kings visiting their prefectures on...
In an era of revenge politics where reprisal and retribution rule the roost, it comes as no surprise that the racist bigot who runs the United States...
ISLAMABAD: The very name Donald Trump or anything related to this name conjures up blatant rejection from the average Pakistani.
United States President Donald Trump has implemented a Muslim ban, which is not called a Muslim ban but simply seeks to restrict entry of people from...
President Donald Trump has sent a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping on the heels of his remarks about Taiwan that angered Beijing.
We witnessed yet another terrible and senseless attack against innocent people in London, in which seven people were been killed and some 50 injured....
Political pundits around the world are trying to analyse the impact of President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia and his speech to the leaders...
MOGADISHU: At least 10 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Tuesday when a car bomb claimed by al...
WASHINGTON: U.S. Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign appealed to Capitol Hill for support on Monday as his attacks on the Muslim parents...
