Shahid Siddiqui

5 days ago | share.google | Ejaz Hussain |Shahid Siddiqui |Minahil Ali |Aoun Sahi

Dialogue with History, a collection of 39 interviews by Zahid Hussain with national and international leaders and social scientists, casts a spell on the readers, especially those keen to uncover historical facts buried beneath perspectives rarely accessible to the public. This 623-page volume, featuring a striking cover and published by Lightstone Publishers, carries interviews originally published in Newsline and Herald magazines, where the author worked for decades.

5 days ago | foodsafety.einnews.com | Ejaz Hussain |Shahid Siddiqui |Minahil Ali |Aoun Sahi

akistan’s food safety and export safeguards are under siege. In March 2025, the National Food Security and Research Ministry and the newly established National Agri-Trade and Food Security Authority quietly banned methyl bromide (MeBr) fumigation at Pakistani ports. The fumigation helps prevent losses through pests, such as insects, nematodes, fungi and weeds in the high-value agricultural produce and timber imported into the country or exported out of it.

6 days ago | thenews.com.pk | Shahid Siddiqui

he federal budget for 2025-26 was presented on June 10. In keeping with the tradition, the Pakistan Economic Survey 2024-25 was released a day earlier, on June 9. The survey is an important official document that provides reliable statistics about various aspects of development. It is important to note that in last year’s PES (2023-24), the reported literacy rate was 62.8 percent.

1 week ago | wnn.africa | Shahid Siddiqui

TEHRAN / TEL AVIV / ALBERTA / NEW DELHI : The early hours of June 13, 2025, marked not just a tactical shift in the long-simmering Israel–Iran conflict, but a profound rupture in the Middle East’s fragile security framework. In a coordinated multi-domain campaign dubbed Operation Rising Lion, Israel launched a sweeping assault on Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure.

1 month ago | wnn.africa | Shahid Siddiqui

TURKU, Finland/BERLIN: Germany’s foreign minister threatened unspecified measures against Israel on Tuesday and said Berlin would not export weapons used to break humanitarian law, as he and Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered their most severe rebuke yet over Gaza. Germany, along with the United States, had long remained in support of Israel’s conduct since the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas, even as Israel became increasingly isolated internationally.