The United Arab Emirates has detained and deported up to 15,000 Pakistani workers, many of them believed to be Shia Muslims, in what community leaders and former lawmakers describe as a large-scale crackdown carried out without formal charges.
According to Mohammad Amin Shaheedi, a senior Shiite cleric and chief of...
Pakistan is entering a difficult phase of economic management as petrol and high-speed diesel prices move close to Rs 400 per litre, intensifying pressure on households, businesses and the government, according to a report by Pakistan-based The News International.
The report said the State Bank of Pakistan’s decision to raise the...
The flip-flop by The Resistance Front (TRF)—a proxy for the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)—in claiming and then denying responsibility for terror attacks, such as the April 2025 Pahalgam incident, is a deliberate tactic intended to manage international pressure while maintaining a semblance of local insurgency.
This pattern follows a well-established script...
In Pakistan, the national pastime used to be cricket. Now, it’s a high-stakes endurance sport called “Watching the Fuel Needle”. It’s a game played by millions, where the goal is to reach the petrol pump before the midnight price hike, only to find the “Out of Stock” sign. That...
Pakistan has quietly redrawn a key piece of the regional trade map, and the timing is difficult to ignore. As the United States tightens its naval blockade on Iran through the Strait of Hormuz, Islamabad has opened multiple overland routes that give Tehran an alternative economic lifeline.
The move does...
Iran appears to be quietly redrawing its diplomatic playbook after the much-hyped Islamabad engagement failed to deliver any progress. What was projected by Pakistan as a breakthrough moment has instead exposed its limited influence, with Tehran now looking well beyond Islamabad for meaningful negotiations.
A recent intelligence assessment accessed suggests...
Pakistani attacks on the east Afghan province of Kunar have killed at least seven people and injured 75, among whom are students and a professor at Kunar University, multiple sources have told the BBC.
According to the Taliban government, 30 of the injured are university students.
Pakistan's information ministry denied attacking...
In Pakistan, Blasphemy laws allow abuse, mob violence, and the targeting of individuals and religious minorities, including Christians, for criminal prosecutions that carry life sentences and death penalties, a report has stated. For instance, Pakistani professor Junaid Hafeez is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
According to the...
Pakistan is facing renewed international scrutiny after United Nations human rights experts raised alarm over the persistent abduction and forced religious conversion of minority women and girls, describing the pattern as widespread and deeply entrenched.
In a press release issued by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for...
U.S. Congressman Brad Sherman has called on Pakistan to clamp down on terror groups such as LeT, which has been linked to the 2025 Pahalgam terror attack
Speaking at an exhibition organised by the Indian Embassy in Washington on the “Human Cost of Terrorism”, Mr. Sherman remembered the victims of...
