2+ hour, 2+ min ago  (1055+ words) TWENTY-eight years after the nuclear tests at Chagai, the strategic environment in South Asia has shifted dramatically. The assumptions that shaped Pakistan's deterrence posture in 1998, and the paradigm shift from "Credible Minimum Deterrence' to "Full-Spectrum Deterrence', were rooted in visions…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago  (776+ words) The government must stop shifting the cost of weak revenue mobilisation onto households and the corporate sector and instead offer targeted tax relief to offset the burden imposed in recent years, including a reduction in the petroleum levy. While support…...

2+ hour, 12+ min ago  (309+ words) QUETTA: Former federal and provincial minister Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind on Sunday strongly criticised the exorbitant airfares charged on flights between Quetta-Islamabad, calling prices ranging from 80, 000 to 150, 000 rupees for a one-way ticket as a grave injustice to the people of…...

7+ hour, 54+ min ago  (556+ words) A military official from Pakistan has said that the country's "resolute response" to India during the May 2025 conflict had effectively debunked the notion of space for war in South Asia. Commander I Corps Lieutenant General Nauman Zakria made these remarks…...

8+ hour, 11+ min ago  (295+ words) Power Minister Awais Leghari on Sunday said that "strict action" had been taken against a Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) line superintendent after Defence Minister Khawaja Asif complained of financial corruption. In an X post on Saturday, Asif said he…...

8+ hour, 7+ min ago  (381+ words) Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon on Sunday urged the federal government to take notice of Indus River Systems Authority's (Irsa) "unjust reduction of Sindh's share" and ensure that Sindh received its rightful share of water. A 22 per cent water shortage…...

9+ hour, 11+ min ago  (1208+ words) RAWALPINDI/ ISLAMABAD: Six thousand Punjab police personnel are being deployed in Gilgit-Baltistan ahead of the June 7 election, it emerged on Sunday as the PTI reiterated its allegations of pre-poll rigging. Punjab authorities had initially approved the deployment of 5, 000 personnel to…...

15+ hour, 47+ min ago  (396+ words) MNA Ali Musa Gilani on Sunday denied reports of his deportation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), terming them "fake news. Reiterating his dismissal of the deportation reports in a second post, Musa said: "Let me assure people with official…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1736+ words) My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." `" Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias…...

15+ hour, 18+ min ago  (723+ words) Israel captured the medieval fortress on Beaufort in Lebanon on Sunday as it warned Lebanese civilians to flee a large area of the south of the country ahead of a stepped-up ground offensive. Shelling was audible and smoke rose from…...