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IF the success of a project were to be judged by the number of times it has been inaugurated then the Greater Karachi Water Supply Scheme Phase IV...
RECEP Tayyip Erdogan has won a third presidential term. His dominance of the Turkish political scene for over two decades has been marked both by...
IN an effort to mould the narrative, and prevent “undesirable” opinions from making it to the airwaves, Pemra has warned TV channels not to give...
WHY are our exports less than half our imports? Why are our imports more than twice our exports? I have posed these seemingly identical questions...
WITH the PTI chief effectively sidelined for now, the PML-N-led government is looking to provide some relief to the people and businesses before...
THOUGH the majority of the global financial community has wholeheartedly embraced the promise of cryptocurrencies, Pakistan’s central bank has...
THE PTI is visibly crumbling. Each passing day sees senior members deserting their supreme leader. Those who have always served power were...
THE rupee made a substantial recovery of 11.5 against the dollar in the open market a day after the State Bank allowed commercial banks to purchase...
THE old is being dismantled and the new is being born out of its debris. And this is not the first time that it is happening. Making and breaking...
THE vicious vengeance directed against leaders and supporters of the PTI is a clear sign that the ruling parties in power have given up on even the...
POLITICAL equations are never easy to engineer, let alone solve. A political crisis should either be allowed to burn through or resolved via the...
AN enduring security dilemma for Pakistan has been the issue of cross-border havens in Afghanistan for militants, particularly the banned TTP....
“I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.” — Leo Tolstoy WE are all...
MAN is by nature a collector. What he collects and how he manages his collection depends on his personal commitment and style of working as well as...
IT is said that contrary to its intended purpose of driving social growth and producing well-informed human capital, higher education in the...
TERRORISM is theatre, and the internet a stage where terrorists can perform certain roles. For example, while executing a terrorist attack,...
PAKISTAN is set to try civilians in military courts for violence committed on May 9 in the wake of the arrest of former premier Imran Khan. The...
HOSTING multilateral summits is a matter of great prestige for states, as world leaders gather at the same table to talk global politics and...
IT gives insight into the obduracy of those in whose custody Imran Riaz Khan is being held that multiple appeals from various quarters have not had...
THE Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has been made to suffer a steep price for the events of May 9. It appears deflated in the wake of a sweeping crackdown...
AT the heart of the controversies surrounding Census 2023 is the National Finance Commission award that determines the basis of financial flows...
THE term ‘untouchable’ has a different connotation in each culture and religion. To Christians, the words noli me tangere are attributed to...
WHILE the question about the ban or no ban on the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) after the May 9 arson attacks on the state buildings and military...
THEY all appeared to be reading from the same script as they renounced their affiliation with the PTI. They left in droves; many of them had...
THIS government’s legislative interventions will be remembered for making even good things seem bad because of how cynical and self-serving the...
THE decision of the military’s top brass to try those arsonists who attacked various sensitive installations and monuments in the country in the...
IN the end it was Recep Erdogan who won yet again. Over the weekend, the results of the run-off Turkish election revealed the former prime minister...
HENRY Kissinger, often viewed as a war criminal, marked his 100th birthday last Saturday amid the usual accolades of the high and mighty, alongside...
A STUDY on Maternal Stress and Health Quality of Life in Mothers with Special Needs Children, authored by Sara Jafree and Khadija Burhan of FCC...
A MAN carrying goods passes through the flood-damaged Bahrain bazaar, on Saturday.—Photo by the writer SWAT: Frustrated with the government’s lack...
A RECENTLY released report by two UN agencies should serve as a wake-up call to the ruling elite — that is, if they can spare some time from...
DESPITE successive governments’ efforts, tobacco use continues to remain a significant public health challenge for Pakistani authorities....
THE rift within the Supreme Court shows no signs of healing. With the incumbent and incoming chief justices still seemingly jousting over issues...
IT’S crunch time for Indian politics. It became inevitable after the Karnataka verdict hit the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the solar plexus....
THOUGH he managed to win the presidential run-off by a whisker, Recep Tayyip Erdogan will stay in Turkiye’s driving seat for the next five years,...
FOR years, successive tree plantation policies have come up short. Nevertheless, the latest effort to go green comes from the Sindh Forest...
WRITING about our national chaos in my last piece, I had said that one side would nix the other to end the chaos soon. But even I am amazed at how...
THE PTI’s juggernaut has been slowed down; the crackdown has had its effect as politicians and electables around it are exiting quickly, leaving...
THE Industrial Relations Ordinance (IRO), 1969, is meant “to amend and consolidate the law relating to the formation of trade unions, the...