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The Prime Minister's recent warning to tax evaders was effectively an admission that the government is incapable of meeting its revenue targets...
With political instability at its peak, the TTAP has formulated a narrative to make headway. The six-party alliance has made it a condition that no...
A school should be the last place where parents fear for their children's lives. Yet the deaths of 31 students and a teacher in Peshawar's...
On October 3, the government launched a "Plastic-Free Islamabad" drive. Within days, a campaign against litter had become a campaign against...
In January, United Nations researchers issued a stark warning: the world has moved beyond a water crisis and into a state of "global water...
The test of any policy initiative, even if it involves showing an elected government out, is to ask the question: What next? In the case of K-P, where...
Space policy in Pakistan is still discussed through launches, satellites and national prestige. That is understandable, but increasingly outdated. The...
The Supreme Court's refusal to commute the death sentence of a man convicted of murdering a woman for rejecting his marriage proposal is a...
The Federal Constitutional Court's decision to reject a plea for the suspension of Bushra Bibi's seven-year sentence in the Al-Qadir Trust...
Pakistan's economy entered FY27 with a veneer of stability that masked deep structural vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, no amount of reforms will...
When Trump won the election in 2016, hatred and racism ceased to be topics to avoid. It was alright to be openly racist toward people that were not...
I have never had to wake up at 4am in the freezing cold, carry a heavy pack up a mountain, and stand guard for hours while everyone I love is far...
Last week we mentioned that in Afghanistan the 'Great Game' continues with changed players. The US would like to keep its engagement with...
With the imposition of emergency and governor's rule in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, PTI has lost the one provincial government through which it could...
A disease that is entirely preventable continues to claim lives in Sindh, exposing the provincial government's persistent failure to address a...
Terrorist incidents in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa surged by almost 200% between March 2024 and September 2026, with police and security personnel targeted in...
Pakistan's societal strata are sinking deeper into destitution. The UNDP's Multidimensional Poverty Index report has unmasked the grim...
India's Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) offers South Asia an uncomfortable lesson: people treated as politically disposable can turn humiliation into...
Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to technology laboratories. It has entered our banks, investment platforms and financial institutions...
Every October, Stockholm becomes the capital of curiosity. Nobel week is more than a parade of famous names; it reminds us that civilisation advances...
Previously, I wrote in these columns that character is stamped on us, like the mark on a coin, by what we do again and again. Universities do much of...
The suicide of Laiba Aijaz, a BS gold medalist from the International Islamic University Islamabad, is a heartbreaking reminder of the devastating...
For thousands of cancer patients in Pakistan, the struggle to survive is increasingly becoming a struggle to afford treatment. It has recently been...
An uneasy calm prevailed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa a day after the imposition of Emergency and Governor's Rule. While no formal street protests have...
Before the iron tracks rusted and the avenues dissolved into salt and stone, Karachi stood as an ocean-kissed mirage of sovereign ambition - a...
In any healthy society, there are plenty of people who seek higher education. They come from a variety of social and economic backgrounds, and...
It was an arduous task ploughing through the unending and at places questionable list of names selected for the national awards this year. Absent from...
For generations, Dalits in Pakistan have lived with a painful contradiction. They are citizens, voters and contributors to the economy, yet their...
The news that Pakistan is missing out on the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy scheduled to be held in India from October 27 to November 5 - resulting in...
The unsuccessful candidates of SPSC, who have embarked on a long march from Hyderabad to Karachi, may not command the numbers or attention enjoyed by...
Hopes for a political thaw were put to rest yesterday as the Centre clamped an Emergency and imposed Governor's rule in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...
Russia's growing embrace of Afghan Taliban regime is raising uncomfortable questions in Islamabad. Is Moscow simply pursuing its security...
The hardest thing to swallow is another person's praise, and that too if they are commended in our presence. The digestion goes worse if the...
Two of Ghalib's verses have, at different milestones of my weary existence, drawn me deep into the ocean of imagination, gently beckoning me into...
The current conflict in the Middle East is drawing closer to Pakistan. As discussed later in this article, the crisis in Yemen, which was once part of...
How many more lives must be lost before the authorities in Sindh begin treating fire safety as a matter of public survival rather than administrative...
Pakistan's prison system is buckling under a wholly avoidable overpopulation crisis. The latest Annual Prisons Data Report reveals a staggering...
The PTI's long march has, on its seventh day, swept like a whirlwind across the south of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and is now inching towards Swabi. Its...
For decades in general, and the past couple of years in particular, most of the people of Pakistan have struggled in lawlessness, destitution and...
Human rights and arbitration are often cast as opposing juridical worlds. One evokes public values, vulnerable claimants and state power; the other,...
As the PTI's long march turns into a circuitous one, it is increasingly becoming clear that it is heading nowhere - both literally and...
Today's column is based on two premises. One, unhealthy politics leads to an unhealthy state. Two, the state is more secure when the people are...
The head of the IIMF is the latest global economic leader to identify the threat AI poses to most of the world's population. IMF Managing...
For too long, human traffickers in Pakistan have operated with a sense of impunity, enriching themselves by exploiting the desperation of those...
The Houthis are taking the conflict in the Mideast to new heights. Their daredevil attack on the Riyadh airport, which led to the killing of three...
Messaging out of Moscow points to the unfolding of a new great game, presumably disturbing for Pakistan. Let us see why recent signals, particularly...
Narendra Modi has never faced such an awkward political challenge at home in his entire 12 years in power. The country claiming to be Vishwaguru...
On the International Day of the Girl, coming up on October 11 (tomorrow), we are reminded of a simple but often overlooked truth: girls' rights...
On 8 October, the US Department of Labour halted the Permanent Labour Certification (PERM) process for major outsourcing firms, including Tata...
There can be few greater indictments of a state's brutality than the killing of those whose only duty is to educate children. Yet this is...
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