Five pictures that show how social media can be a minefield play videoBBC Arabic staff give their views on some social media photos Social media can be fraught with risks for women in conservative...
Pakistan on Thursday named eight Indian diplomats it accuses of espionage and terrorism, as tensions mounted between the nuclear-armed rivals following days of artillery duels and skirmishes on the...
Gunmen on motorcycles killed at least four people at a religious gathering of Shi'ite Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, on Saturday, police said, in the latest attack claimed by the Sunni...
At least 44 cadets and guards have been killed after militants attacked a police college in the Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say. A major security operation lasted for hours after the...
Islamic State fighters and the Pakistani Taliban on Monday said they killed a police official in northwest Pakistan, the second attack in the south Asian nation claimed by the Middle East-based...
“The iconic image of Gandhi is of a man of God steeped in austerity, sexually renunciate, meditating in his ashram, who the assassin’s bullet providentially transformed into a martyr…all the...
Despite the failure of the Middle East policy, the United States has not abandoned its strategy aimed at global domination to be reached with the help of military might. Libya, Somalia and Mali may...
The ban on all Indian content by Pakistani media regulator is in response to a similar act by India. Pakistan has banned all Indian content on television and radio channels at 15:00 GMT today,...
A handsome "chai wala" (tea seller) in Pakistan has seen his life change overnight after a picture of him at work swept the internet. Arshad Khan, 18, was photographed pouring tea at Islamabad's...
I have a confession to make: I'm not sure how much more of this election I can take. After months scouring newspapers and websites for every drop of political news, wringing every bit of gossip from...
This year marks the centenary of the creation of the legendary Trans-Siberian railway of Russia. By an ironic twist of fate, this falls right in the middle of an epochal change in geopolitical and...
The inconvenient conversation UPSA and other African Universities must have By Prosper Yao Tsikata, Ph. D. and A .Kobla Dotse, Ph.D. The ongoing discourse on the credibility of some doctoral degrees...
The ongoing discourse on the credibility of some doctoral degrees and the credibility of the institutions that confer them has exposed the vulnerability of our institutions—especially our...
Amnesty International has accused the world's wealthiest nations of shirking responsibility towards refugees, saying they host the fewest and do the least. Ten countries which account for just 2.5%...
President John Dramani on Monday received letters of credence of 11 new envoys with the promise to scale up Ghana's relations with other countries in bilateral and diplomatic cooperation. The envoys...
A pigeon has been taken into custody by police in India after it was found carrying a threatening note to the Prime Minister. The country’s border security office detained the bird at India’s...
ISIS is allegedly an Al Qaeda-linked Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant, known for its ruthless tactics and suicide bombers and who currently poses a threat throughout the Middle East. It is also...
Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, has told western leaders that shutting their doors to migrants who seek entry into their countries is not the solution to winning the war against terrorism....
After all, both countries have long been nuclear powers -- a deterrent that encompasses the lives of a combined 1.4 billion people. Both nations have also seen some years of relative peace along...
A notebook found on New York and New Jersey bombings suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami contained ramblings about terrorists and also mentioned Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni-American imam who was a spokesman...
