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OVER the past many years, smog in Lahore has been a persistent challenge. The city regularly tops the charts for the worst air quality as soon as...
THERE are ways in which Kemi Badenoch’s advent as Britain’s opposition leader, at the helm of the Conservative Party, can be seen as a...
IT has emerged that the spouses of over 28,500 Sindh government employees have been illicitly benefiting from BISP. This troubling revelation during...
THE state is making a fresh attempt to improve conditions in Pakistan’s penitentiaries by developing a national jail reform policy. The first...
IT was yet another bizarre night. In less than an hour, the government managed to steamroll a series of laws through both Houses of Parliament amid...
OVER the course of its tumultuous existence, the story of Pakistan has been told in myriad ways. In keeping with the debate surrounding its very...
EYEWASH arrangements are usually required at two locations: in industry, to provide emergency eye decontamination when a worker’s eyes are exposed...
THE law minister and defence minister had noise-blocking headphones snapped on as they rushed through half a dozen pieces of important legislation...
AS vital modes of communication, art and culture have the power to overcome social and international barriers. Cultural extravaganzas, therefore,...
FOLLOWING 9/11, the ashes of the World Trade Centre in New York ignited fires in different parts of the world. Even now, 23 years later, those...
IN an aggressive move, the State Bank on Monday reduced its key policy rate by a hefty 250bps to 15pc. This is the fourth straight cut since June,...
IT is becoming harder and harder to find something new to write about as far as politics in Pakistan is concerned. The country is stuck in a time...
THERE’S a time for everything, as the saying goes, which includes canvassing for better ties between India and Pakistan. Their relations since...
THE Punjab government would be keen to forget its first year of treating smog as ‘a year-round epidemic’ instead of a seasonal issue. The policy...
WE recently faced internet interruptions and wondered about the cause. Unsurprisingly, the larger the problem, the harder it is to promptly find...
THE convention is that when parties are seeking a cessation in hostilities or a ceasefire, they engage in confidence-building measures that can...
AMERICA has allies while its enemies have proxies; America’s allies have governments that must be supported while its enemies have regimes that...
ON Aug 28, police station Banr in Swat came under a militant attack in which one policeman lost his life and two others were wounded....
CONSIDERING the fact that Pakistan has the fifth highest burden of tuberculosis in the world as per the World Health Organisation, the state cannot...
PAKISTAN’S politics is still dominated by dynasties and family networks that manage to retain their grip over the country’s top political offices...
THE 18th Amendment reflected the collective commitment of the 2008 parliament to increased participatory federalism. Its authors were aware that...
SKARDU, nestled in the heart of Gilgit-Baltistan, has rapidly transformed from a small town into a popular tourist destination because of its...
AN old law is being resurrected. Why? It is a question that the government must answer. On Friday, the law minister quietly introduced a bill in...
POLICYMAKERS must be jumping with joy. At the close of the first quarter of FY25, the budget posted a consolidated surplus of Rs1.7tr — 1.4pc of...
THE deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Gen Ali Fadavi, has said his country’s “response to the Zionist...
THE dynamics of terrorism threats in Pakistan have shifted significantly since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan, challenging security...
I WAS a graduate student during the 2016 presidential elections where I learned a lot about American media’s coverage of elections. We don’t...
THE surge in polio cases has reached distressing levels with a tally of 45 last reported, after two cases emerged in Lakki Marwat and D.I. Khan....
IT will live in history: the Jabalia death march. As reported by Al Jazeera, the fleeing Palestinians were carrying white flags while going through...
INSTABILITY continues to haunt Balochistan, as Friday morning’s bombing in Mastung has shown. At least nine fatalities have been confirmed —...
DESPITE all its efforts to facilitate PIA’s privatisation, it seems the government only ended up being taken for a ride. The long-promised sale of...
IT is now indisputable that Israel’s mass murder and destruction of Gaza had nothing to do with finishing off Hamas. The real reason was to...
PAKISTAN’s exports are not increasing at a fast rate, perhaps because the authorities give incentives to traditional export sectors and restrict...
EVERY few years, questions regarding the limitations of parliament’s power to amend the Constitution, and the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction to...
RESERVED seats for women and non-Muslims in our legislatures have been a long-standing feature of Pakistan’s political system, but they had never...
AS the world marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists today, the dangers confronting media professionals have...