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T he initial step of revamping the transport system of Karachi has been taken. After the initiation of the Peoples Bus Service along with the...
A recent report found that Pakistan was the fastest-growing app market in the world, making evident how youth and tech-driven the country’s future...
Afghanistan and Pakistan are in a fix. The terror fissures have further compounded their relations, and both the countries seem to be clueless to...
As a nation of tea drinkers, this country does not truly appreciate the gift that is coffee. This piece is not about coffee per se. It is about the...
In contrast to the political doom and gloom scenario pictured by the UN system, a World Bank report on Afghanistan has surprised, if not shocked,...
The monster of Frankenstein is one of the most familiar characters of Literature. After Shelley, recently Sadaawi stitched together a similar...
Every electoral process consists of hundreds of steps and each step demands minimum standards. For instance, Pakistan’s Elections Act 2017 has 15...
“Globalization is almost dead. Free trade is almost dead,” said Morris Chang, founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), where 90%...
By 2006, when I retired from the PAF, Pakistan had begun to be slowly sucked into the brewing inferno in Afghanistan. Till then we were only a...
How times change. The IMF team is in town to negotiate with the government on the revival of the stalled $6.5 billion bailout package. There are,...
Breakneck inflation is now hitting its worst levels since 1975, and previous predictions that the numbers would stablise and decline in the coming...
It was only a matter of time that the latest Omicron sub-variant BF-7 would enter our border with the first case being detected in a 49-year-old...
While global elites continue making loft promises to rid the world of poverty, their promises have begun to sound increasingly hollow as the world...
Political instability is evidently loud and clear. The government by cracking down on its political opponents in cases primarily booked on figment...
The deteriorating socio-economic condition of Pakistan is forcing people to flee the crisis-hit country. Unemployment is rampant, the rupee has hit...
If you talk to any fresh graduate, they will tell how unprepared they feel while entering the job market despite having sterling grades. Employers...
It’s a moment of astute introspection. Something serious and out of the box needs to be done. The terror backlash is evident all over, and...
Despite a change in government, Pakistan’s ranking in Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index remains unchanged....
The Americans saw their rights violated when the Bush and the Obama administrations monitored and stored their entire online communications. Some...
We are once again at the table with the IMF team looking at our report card like a naughty student made to re-learn the lessons that he failed to...
In the Eurasian landmass, Europe is the westernmost portion. It is divided into Central, Western, Eastern, Southern, Northern, Southeastern, or...
The Russo-Ukrainian war is now literally toiling economic security. Apart from plunging the region in a hybrid warfare, it poses the threat of...
Pakistan finds itself at a critical juncture in its history, staring down the barrel of economic default. There is a long and multifaceted backdrop...
A security state is inherently a state in perpetual fear. Such a condition may have been based on historical animosities which are ossified over a...
Washington appears to be getting fed up with the Afghan Taliban’s refusal to honour several aspects of the Doha peace deal that led to the US...
Katriyon aur galiyon, muhallon ke naam Jinki napaak khashaak se chand raaton Ko aa-aa ke karta hai aksar vuzu — Faiz Ahmad Faiz The moon no...
In a tragic accident, almost 41 people have been killed after a passenger coach fell into a ravine and caught fire in Balochistan’s Lasbela...
Apart from its religious and moral significance, character is a fundamental prerequisite for a functional and progressive society. This basic or...
A new report has entered the market this week. It’s called ‘Achieving Zero Emissions with More Mobility and Less Mining’. Here’s what it says...
Three years ago, in mid-January 2020, I reached out to then Health Minister, Dr Zafar Mirza, about a new disease which was spilling outside China....
Pakistan continues to bleed at the hands of terrorists — strategically aided by hostile foreign conspirators. The agenda is to push the country...
While addressing ‘PM Youth Loan Scheme for Business and Agriculture’ in Islamabad the other day, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed to...
Islamophobia increasingly recognises no borders in Europe. Hate-driven attacks on the religion of Islam and the holy book will never cast a shadow...
India is gradually sliding into anarchy. The trend of radicalism flowing out of divisive politics has dented its democratic credentials. It is now...