The US Senate approved a war powers resolution Tuesday seeking to block further American military action against Iran, delivering a rare bipartisan rebuke to President Donald Trump even as his allies argued that the battlefield pressure had pushed Tehran back to the negotiating table. The 50-48 vote marked the first time the Senate approved such […]
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Bilawal calls for extending 18th Amendment powers to Gilgit-Baltistan
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday said that incumbent coalition government led by the PML-N is planning to abolish the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), pledging that his party would protect the scheme. “It is unfortunate that the rulers want to end the Benazir Income Support Programme. We will save the Benazir […]
PM vows to defeat ‘vested interests’ opposing change
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday vowed to devolve powers to the local bodies and defeat the vested interests resisting the change in the country. Addressing a press conference, flanked by the chief ministers of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Usman Buzdar and Mehmood Khan, here at the PM Office, the prime minister spoke at length […]
Nuclear powers and poverty in South Asia
India tested its first nuclear device on May 24, 1974, at Pokharan in its Rajasthan desert. Raja Ramanna, the leader of the team, is said to have informed then prime minister Indira Gandhi that “Buddha Smiles”. India continued to vigorously pursue its nuclear programme. On May 11, 1998, it conducted three more nuclear tests at […]