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ALONG with the genocide in Gaza, Israel has embarked on a regional rampage, attacking Arab and Muslim states with...
AEMEND, in a recent statement, has only now drawn attention to the reality that has plagued Pakistani media for a...
Declined river flows have had a detrimental effect on the delta.
The digital infrastructure must extend beyond urban centres.
Gains that are made in human development terms are literally washed away by the effects of climate change on a regular basis.
The more pressing issue tied to the proposed legislation is one of privacy in relation to ‘digital identity’.
THOUGH Pakistan-US relations have rarely been straightforward, a sensational claim by an American official, and US...
LURCHING from one crisis to the next, the Pakistani state has been consistent in failing its vulnerable citizens. According to reports, in the...
AMONGST the biggest stories of 2023 was the stranding and eventual capsizing of a boat in the Mediterranean carrying hundreds of people trying to...
PAKISTAN is currently the world’s fifth most populous country. The majority of the population consists of youth between the ages of 18 to 30. The...
A NEW bill to amend the existing tax laws introduced in the National Assembly on Wednesday is set to increase pressure on tax evaders — identified...
IT had been made clear to Pakistan that a Champions Trophy without India was not even a distant possibility, even if it was their bitter neighbours...
IT was a couple of years before Covid-19 that I started realising that something was changing quite fundamentally on the mental health front for...
“Indeed Allah would never change a people’s state until they change their own state” — Al Quran. THE sudden collapse of the Assad regime and...
IMPLEMENTATION of a new Ogra recommendation to increase the gas prices by an average 8.7pc or Rs142.45 per mmBtu in Punjab and KP, and 25.78pc or...
IF you are fond of technology but not all that savvy about understanding its technical specifications then we have something in common. Do you get...
EVERY country is a continuum — even one as comparatively young as Pakistan. In 1947, Pandit Nehru cannily chose India, leaving the Quaid to...
LIKE many developing nations, Pakistan’s economy relies heavily on its migrant workers — individuals who leave home with dreams of a better...
THE IMF is a relatively new player in the climate space. It has moved rapidly to carve a role for itself by formally recognising long-ignored lin...
THE stand-off over the Societies Registration (Amendment) Act, 2024 — a draft law dealing with registration of madressahs — between the state...
THE unfolding humanitarian crisis in Kurram district, particularly in Parachinar city, has reached alarming proportions that demand immediate state...
MONDAY’s attacks on polio workers in Karak and Bannu that martyred Constable Irfanullah and wounded two vaccinators is another dark reminder of...
WHEN the Catholic armies entered the city of Granada in Spain in the late 15th century, they also took over Alhambra, the palace-fortress complex...
As President-elect Donald Trump picks people to staff his second administration, Washington-based scholars of US-South Asia relations are weighing...
BACK in the early 1980s, when Akbar S. Ahmed was contemplating whether Pakistan could be Japan, he might have missed an opportunity to focus on a...
The temptation is to interpret what is happening in Kurram in hindsight; a place burning in the fires of hatred first stoked by the state some 40...
IS the world failing to control global warming? This question is gaining traction. The year is coming to an end; it will go down as the hottest on...
• Indian press, pundits call on New Delhi to reciprocate Pakistan team’s World Cup visit • BCCI pullout will take a financial toll on approx....
IT has been a decade since the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, which killed some 150 students and staff in December 2014. It was the...
PAKISTAN’S infrastructure development woes are wide and deep. The country must annually spend at least 10pc of its GDP to cover the growing...
AS the post-Assad dispensation takes shape in Syria, questions remain about how the international community will deal with the jihadists that are...
The ongoing campaign by Sangh Parivar fanatics in India questioning the origins of mosques and other Muslim holy places threatens to stir up a...
THEY appear to be at it again — bulldozing legislation. The government now has a plan to turn Pakistan into a ‘digital nation’ for which a bill...
THE damage from climate change-induced natural disasters to property, businesses, and critical infrastructure is evident worldwide. However,...
WE were conducting our regular health check-ups at a government school in Machhar Colony, Lyari, when two students arrived at the door of their...
THE latest reduction of 200bps in the State Bank’s policy rate appears moderate in the backdrop of calls from business groups for a bigger cut of...
IN the wake of the 26th Amendment, it seems a weakened and tamed judiciary is now an accepted reality as the focus shifts to the legislation for...
“EVERYONE acts every day of their lives,” said Marlon Brando. Think about it. The air hostess acts with her plastic smile. The politician acts...