AUKUS controversy

THE AUKUS military pact signed last week between Australia, the UK and the US has created major fissures between apparent allies within the Western...

Last call

EVER since last summer when the government applied a historic monetary and fiscal stimulus to the economy a question has hung silently in the air,...

Survive and thrive

IN one of his many theatre plays, the ailing comedian Umer Sharif played a domestic servant. While consoling the wife of his master about the...

Emerging humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan

Emerging humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan IN the absence of sufficient economic resources and without adequate international assistance,...

300% Increase In Registration Of Sexual Assault Cases Reported In Lahore

Police records show that Lahore has recently seen an increase of 300 per cent in the registration of cases of sexual violence. Geo News reported...

The benefit of doubt must go to the Kiwis

IT was sad to see the Black Caps departing over some security concerns that were not even made public. Yet we must understand that a foreigner or a...

Perfidious Albion

“AN ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country,” the British diplomat Sir Henry Wotton said over...

Bolton’s venomous bias towards Pakistan

Bolton’s venomous bias towards Pakistan RECENTLY, the former US National Security Advisor (NSA) John Bolton has expressed venomous thinking about...

Employment and skills

Technological advancement is one of the most transformative drivers of the world of work globally. Contemporarily, such transformations are at a...

The have-nots

Americans have historically struggled to see inequality as a major societal problem. Inequality in the US was at record levels, even before the...

Samsung to set up TV plant in Karachi

ISLAMABAD: Samsung Elec­tronics — a South Korean technology giant — is in the process of establishing its TV lineup plant in collaboration with...

Bureaucracy issues

IF Imran Khan is the car’s steering wheel, the accelerator and brakes are his ministers and the engine is the bureaucracy. Unless the engine is...

A viable solution?

In August, the influential US magazine Foreign Affairs carried out a survey on the two-state solution in Palestine among “authorities with...

Covid-19 and the economy

For the first 19 months of the current government's tenure, economic failures were all attributed to the previous PML-N government or the mess of...

The dream of a global ceasefire

The writer is a freelance journalist. The horrors of wars and conflicts continue to haunt millions of people across the world amidst the ravages of...

Look to science

Like the rest of the world, the Covid-19 pandemic is slowly unfolding in Pakistan. If we go by the available data, the Covid curve is headed...

Record meat exports at 95,991 tonnes in FY21

KARACHI: Pakistan exported 95,991 tonnes (worth $333 million) meat and meat preparations in FY21 — an all-time high figures — against 83,749...

Online Freedoms

Another Change

Afghanistan and the sad confusion of a superpower

Dear America! What has gone wrong? Why are your most loyal allies in the West calling you a ‘regional power’ and no more a ‘superpower’? Is...

Efficient aid

A few days back my friend Arshad shared his idea of starting a donation drive to support daily wagers and others affected in the current crisis....

Wind up issue of MT Cherish

Wind up issue of MT Cherish AFTER beaching of MT CHERISH at Gadani Yard, media reports generated controversies about the presence of huge amount of...

The Afghanistan shockwave

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The fake news challenge

“Methinks my editor is not a fan of The Khan’s.” “Fake news!” “Excuse me? I did not state it as a fact, it’s merely an opinion.”...

Is China’s pledge to cut overseas coal funding a game-changer?

China’s pledge to stop funding overseas coal has been welcomed as a climate landmark that could dry up funding for smoke-billowing plants in poor...

An ugly IGCEP

A rather ugly situation is developing with respect to the IGCEP (Indicative Generation Capacity Expansion Plan). Reportedly, no consensus has been...

Spoiling the games for your own games !

Spoiling the games for your own games ! AFTER the shameful defeat of the Americans and their Allied forces in Afghanistan, now America has started...

Cooperation policies

The import bill

The higher import bill and current account deficit (CAD) noted in recent months poses serious risks to the macroeconomic outlook, particularly...

Tarin unveils steps to curb imports ahead of IMF talks

ISLAMABAD: Conceding concerns over heating up of Pakistan economy, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Wednesday announced steps — regulatory duties...

Cut-off yield hiked by up to 49bps in first T-bills auction after interest rate rise

KARACHI: Cut-off yields on treasury bills were increased by up to 49 basis points in the auction held on Wednesday — the first such big increase...

Covid-19 research exposes food security crisis for women, informal workers

ISLAMABAD: Ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit which kicks of today (23rd September), experts are calling for policy reforms to protect the food...

200 Pakistani students get scholarships to study in Turkey

ISLAMABAD: A ceremony was organized by the Pakistan-Turkish Alumni Association to felicitate 200 Pakistani students who got scholarships to study...

United States and Pakistan Convene Energy Dialogue

Islamabad, September 22, 2021: Today, the U.S. Department of State’s Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources Harry Kamian...

Dialogue, at last

SANITY appears to have at last prevailed in the matter of electoral reforms. On Tuesday, at a meeting of National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser with...

Provocative act

MAULANA Abdul Aziz appears to relish provoking the state — and getting away with it. For the third time since Aug 21, flags of the Afghan Taliban...

Afghanistan: the skewed debate

Weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan and formed an interim government, the global conversation on Afghanistan continues to focus on those...

Where were the professors?

In a recent article in these pages, a writer rewarded Pakistani academia with a collective F for its members’ supposed lack of participation in...

Changing perceptions and altered realities

Through which lens should Pakistan be looking at the world? At this juncture in our history, foreign policy, diplomatic relations and our ability...

What makes a lockdown smart?

The nature, degree and timing of collective action to contain Covid-19 has generated intense debate around the world. Decision-making in the sphere...

Khyber Pass Economic Corridor

Khyber Pass Economic Corridor As Pakistan is waiting to benefit from the 60 Billion plus China Pakistan Economic Corridor, a silver jackpot has...

Mother and martyr—a tribute

New realities and challenges

BY Aug 31, the Biden administration was able to evacuate some 124,000 people primarily through Kabul’s Hamid Karzai airport but also via overland...

Energy use: winter policy

While the government continues trying to paint its decision to hike gas prices for residential consumers as a good thing, millions of consumers are...

Electoral reforms

Parliamentarians turned a new leaf of cooperation as they agreed to initiate a dialogue process on proposed electoral reforms. This is a welcome...

Killer manholes

A few days ago, a two and a half years’ old boy died after he fell into a gutter through an uncovered manhole in Garden locality of Karachi. The...

History — not in the making

No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women...

The arc of caliber keeps bending

In the movie Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, there is a scene where Al Pacino and DiCaprio are talking at a restaurant. Pacino is trying to convince...

Hypocrisy, politics and greed define cricket today

We have all been hearing for too long about the fallout on Pakistan from Afghanistan’s chaos after the US withdrawal that has been unexpectedly...

Partisan politics

The recent cantonment board elections have once again bared the fact that our so-called mainstream political parties are mere regional entities....