The emirate of Qatar has further boosted its status as a specialist power in resolving delicate hostage situations by using its influence to help secure the release of hostages by…
Less than eight weeks after Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa was chosen to head the army by the prime minister, and some six weeks after Nawaz Sharif is said to have…
Israel plans to send troops into Gaza’s Rafah even without US support, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Antony Blinken on Friday, as Washington failed to pass a UN resolution on…
As the boycott of Qatar by a Saudi-led bloc of countries approaches its 100th day Wednesday, experts have warned the increasingly bitter dispute could last into 2018 and beyond. "If…
It may be a family feud - the anti-Iran Arabs and Iran tolerant Arabs - but somehow it drags in non-family, offering them the Hobson's choice of 'with us or…
Exactly 20 years ago, on October 7, the world’s only superpower, the US, along with its global allies, launched massive air strikes on the war-torn country of Afghanistan. During the…
There was much bonhomie as a few dozen people, including members of Congress and US administration officials, gathered last week for dinner in a posh Washington neighbourhood in honour of…
Prime minister Nawaz Sharif has a kidney stone. It is his second. The first is an equally painful obstruction called Imran Khan. This latest disclosure of the prime minister’s medical…
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is preoccupied with the ongoing conflict between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, both of whom Pakistan has very cordial relations with. It is a conflict in which…
The state of Qatar got world's attention when FIFA announced its decision for it to host the 2022 football World Cup making it the first Middle Eastern country ever to…
