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Fourteen newborns died in a preventable hospital fire in Islamabad on 26 August — and the story that followed cut deeper than the tragedy itself. With Pakistan ranked 168th on the UN's Human…
On the sidelines of the Asian Games in Nagoya, India's sports minister and Bhutan's Olympic chief agreed to formalise cooperation…
Afghan police have dismantled a meth lab and seized 48 kg of crystal methamphetamine in Uruzgan — but the more alarming figure is…
A child under five years old was killed and three others — including two more toddlers and a woman — were left in critical…
Pakistan signed a defence pact with Saudi Arabia expecting economic gains and limited military risk — but the collapse of a…
Pakistan's middle class is being hollowed out — not by a single shock but by the cumulative cost of replacing failing public…
Donald Trump's 'AI Force' and 'AI Czar' pledge is more than branding — it is a declaration that the US will treat artificial…
Houthi forces claimed a sweeping missile and drone assault on Riyadh and an Aramco facility in Yanbu on 20 September — the most…
Iran's top security official has raised the spectre of an NPT withdrawal — one of the most consequential threats in modern…
