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In under a month, Afghan counter-narcotics units have busted smugglers in Takhar, seized 215 kg of opium in Ghazni, destroyed a processing lab in Helmand, and arrested five suspects across Uruzgan…
Pakistan's trade deficit hit $39.5 billion in FY2025-26 — a 22 per cent jump — as exports shrank 6 per cent while imports climbed…
India is sending a minister-level delegation to the UN's first-ever Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva — a forum born…
Nepal's tiger success story has a complication: with the population nearly tripling to 355 since 2009, human-tiger conflict has…
What began as a shocking gangrape case in Lahore has taken a new turn: investigators now believe a cryptocurrency dispute may…
The White House celebrated US Independence Day on 4 July 2026 with an enthusiastic post on X, sharing a fireworks video and…
Trump's America250 address was part history lesson, part political manifesto. Delivered from the National Mall after…
The White House marked Independence Day 2026 with a brief patriotic post — 'GOD BLESS AMERICA' — on July 5, continuing a…
President Donald J. Trump took the stage at the Salute to America event on 5 July 2026, marking the United States' 250th…
