News in Picture

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: Every morning, they arrive before the city fully wakes. They come carrying drills, paint buckets, cutters, hammers and rusted toolboxes. Some sit silently against crumbling walls. Others stare at the road as…

Ahmed Ali  Islamabad: Iran appears to be standing at a pivotal diplomatic moment as cautious engagement with Washington resumes. On the table is a familiar but consequential proposition: relief from decades of economic sanctions in…

Aayza Amir Islamabad: For decades, national security was largely understood through the lens of traditional threats such as war, territorial disputes, and military rivalries.  Today, however, climate change has emerged as one of the…

Fareena Abbas Islamabad:The reported closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran has triggered what many analysts are calling an economic and energy shockwave across the global system.  As one of the world’s most critical maritime…

Asem Mustafa Awan Multan: The fire is small, controlled, almost careful, as if even the flames understand their limits. In front of a thatched shelter stitched together from reeds and resolve, a young girl crouches over a pot,…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: There are no straight lines in this picture, only a tangle of pipes, a sluggish ribbon of blackened water, and the quiet suggestion that something essential has gone deeply wrong. Along the edge of an open…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: He does not count in kilograms. He counts trips. Thirty bricks are stacked with practiced precision, balanced on a strip of cloth that separates skin from weight. The load rests on his head, but it travels…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: Beneath open skies and indifferent trees, they lie in rows — motorcycles upon motorcycles, rust settling where livelihoods once stood upright. This is not a scrapyard by design. It is a holding space, a…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The rain does not slow him down. It cannot. On a soaked stretch of road, a man rides forward with two schoolchildren pressed behind him, a thin plastic sheet their only defense against the downpour. The…

News Desk  Islamabad: In a remarkable and rarely witnessed event, scientists have captured on camera the birth of a whale in the open ocean, accompanied by extraordinary cooperation from other whales in the pod. The event was recorded…