Daily Current Affairs

By: Jawaid Bokhari The dynamic of conspicuous change — or strategic direction — is noticeably reshaping the landscape of ownership of assets and businesses, and redefining the role of a wide range of economic agents in the economy. No less then 97pc of the highest recorded 926 companies registered in the month of May with the Securities and Exchange Commission …

By: Sonia Qadir The case of striking workers of a clothing brand show how laws are moulded to erode labour rights Textiles is one of Pakistan’s largest industries and employs a sizeable workforce. It is also notorious for violations of labour laws — violations that are usually considered unremarkable in mainstream activist and media circles. Since May 2017 though, a …

By: Sylvie Kauffmann PARIS — As British conservatives licked their wounds a week ago, and French voters were electing hundreds of rookies to Parliament to strengthen the hand of President Emmanuel Macron, Ukrainians at last had a reason to celebrate — and they did, partying by the thousands in Kiev. For them, June 11 was the dawn of the long-awaited …

By: Shahzaib Khan Having pulled off a diplomatic recovery, Pakistan is now being forced to navigate the increasingly troubled waters of the Gulf. The Gulf, Pakistan’s neighbour beyond the sea, is in crisis, perhaps the most serious one in recent history. It is Qatar versus the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). For reasons that are avidly debated, the …

By: MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ALISON SMALE WASHINGTON — World leaders vowed Friday to confront climate change in a new international coalition that no longer includes the United States government, moving quickly to reshape global environmental alliances after President Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris climate accord. At the White House, Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, …

By: Agence France-Presse President Donald Trump declared that the US had run out of patience with North Korea over its nuclear drive as he welcomed South Korea’s new leader Moon Jae-In to talks at the White House. While Moon has been arguing for greater engagement with Pyongyang as the best way to put the brakes on its nuclear and ballistic …

By: MARK LANDLER WASHINGTON — President Trump, the self-styled rebel who wants to sweep out an ancien regime, will travel to Paris on July 14 to commemorate revolutionaries who actually did it — with bloodshed and barricade-storming — 228 years ago in France. The White House announced on Wednesday that Mr. Trump had accepted an invitation from President Emmanuel Macron …

By: LISA MONACO More than two years into the American-led campaign against the Islamic State, freeing the cities of Mosul, in Iraq, and Raqqa, in Syria, is within reach. But since the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared the establishment of its caliphate from the pulpit of a mosque in Mosul in 2014, the Islamic State has claimed at least …

By: ALAN RAPPEPORT WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on a Chinese bank, a Chinese company and two Chinese citizens in an effort to crack down on North Korea’s financing and development of weapons of mass destruction. The sanctions follow the death of Otto F. Warmbier, an American student who was imprisoned by North Korea, and come as …

By: JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS WASHINGTON — President Trump will meet next week with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the White House national security adviser said on Thursday, announcing highly anticipated talks amid escalating tensions over Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election and a series of inquiries into whether Mr. Trump’s associates colluded with Russia. The White House would not …