*Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab has just won the first Grammy Award for herself and for Pakistan. * The Brooklyn-based Pakistani singer bagged the Grammy for her song “Muhabbat” in the Best Global Performance category. Grammy nominations for 2022, which were announced on Nov. 23 last year ...

SWAT – Prime Minister Imran Khan has credited his government for the success a day after United Nations passed Pakistan-backed resolution, designating March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia. Speaking at a public gathering in Swat, the premier recalled Pakistan’s years-long ...

WASHINGTON — The rapid U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan link is creating intense pressure on the C.I.A. to find new ways to gather intelligence and carry out counterterrorism strikes in the country, but the agency has few good options. The C.I.A., which has been at the heart of the ...

WASHINGTON – The United States has okayed the release of Guantanamo Bay’s oldest prisoner Saifullah Paracha (73). Suspected of having contacts with Al Qaeda, Paracha (a Pakistani) was detained in Bangkok in July 2003 and taken to Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, before being transferred to ...

US President-elect Joe Biden is expected to roll back some of President Donald Trump's policies via executive orders on his first day in the White House, according to his incoming chief of staff Ron Klain. Some of the key moves Biden will take right on his inauguration day will be canceling the ...

Iran has made its intention to enrich uranium a reality and has begun the process of enriching uranium to 20%. It should be noted that on January 2, Iran had expressed its intention to enrich uranium to the UN nuclear watchdog. “The process of enriching uranium to 20% has begun at the Shahid ...

NEW YORK:Half of registered American voters say they think history will view Donald Trump as a “failed” president, according to a new poll released Thursday. The poll of 1,000 registered voters, carried out by USA TODAY/Suffolk University from Dec. 16 to 20, found stark partisan divides in ...

NEW YORK - US President-elect Joe Biden Thursday announced appointments of key members of his climate team, which includes Pakistan-born Ali Zaidi who will serve as deputy White House Climate Coordinator. Zaidi, 33, currently New York’s deputy secretary for energy and environment, is the is the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a man who keeps his word, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. Asked at his annual news conference about the most difficult negotiator he had ever had to deal with, Putin said he did not approach the issue this way. "There are no good and ...

Joe Biden, the projected US president-elect, confirmed to the New York Times his intention to return the United States to the Iran nuclear deal link during his tenure and hold follow-up negotiations if Tehran returns to strict compliance with the agreement. "It's going to be hard, but yeah," ...