Actualising Pak-US trade potential my job: Blome

Lahore: US Ambassador Donald Blome on Tuesday said his job was to build and expand the Pak-US trade to its actual potential. He was addressing the Pakistan American Business Forum here at a local club. Currently, the Pak-US t...

Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling

Ever since the Russian-Ukraine war, the understrength conventional power capability of Russia against the US-led NATO bolstering Ukraine often comes up with nuclear saber-rattling. More recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin...

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Barristers & media: instruments of democratic regression?

The judiciary played a facilitating role in establishing the authoritarian rule. Sections of the media contributed to the consolidation of such governance. At first sight these two sentences read like a glimpse from Pakistan'...

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Marching rebels

Syrian rebels have made an astounding comeback in the country's civil war, taking large swathes of territory including key cities within days. Some 250 cities, towns and villages, including Aleppo and Hama, have fallen in the la...

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What did Baku deliver?

COP29, widely referred to as the Finance COP, concluded with an agreement on a $300 billion annual climate finance package under the much-anticipated New Collective Quantified Goals (NCQGs). After two weeks of contentious and...

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Iran, Hezbollah aim to bolster Assad as rebels target Syria’s Homs

BEIRUT: Iran will send missiles, drones and more advisers to Syria, a senior Iranian official said on Friday as US-backed alliance of different rebel groups advanced on the central city of Homs and Kurds seized the big...

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