Sultan M Hali

THE year 2024, which was a leap year but saw tumultuous moments and historic events including conflict, elections, governments toppling and the demise of prominent…

QUAID-I-AZAM Mohammad Ali Jinnah, with his prescience, to keep the newly founded Pakistan united as a single nation, had declared Urdu as the national language…

EXACTLY 53 years ago, on 9th December 1971, Pakistan Navy (PN)’s Daphné-class Submarine Hangor created history, when it sank Indian Navy (IN)’s Type 14 (Blackwood-class)…

A ceasefire has been facilitated by U.S. and French diplomats between Israel and Hezbollah, ending nearly 14 months of intense fighting. Apparently, as part of…

PRESIDENT Xi Jinping’s state visits to Peru and Brazil hold significant strategic and economic importance for China and the respective host countries. In Peru, Xi’s…

IN September 2024, Pakistan received a bailout package of US dollars 7 billion from IMF. Nearly a month had passed that the Parliament approved the…

IN a hurriedly adopted bill, the Pakistani parliament has extended the tenure of services chiefs from three to five years. Retirement age bar of 64…

CHINA’S Hunan University of Medicine (HNUM) has named its newly inaugurated research centre after Pakistani Professor Dr Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary. Naming the research centre after…

THE 2024 BRICS Summit, held from October 22 to 24 in Kazan, Russia, is particularly significant as it marked the first gathering of BRICS countries…

ISLAMABAD hosted the 23rd Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit on October 15-16, 2024. Several key decisions were taken at the Summit attended by Belarus, China,…