Ill-conceived policy

PRIME MINISTER Imran Khan has announced a major list of incentives for the construction industry aimed at boosting the economy at a time when the...

Kashmir, Muslims of India, Behaviour of Indian State and UN Charter

Indian State has scattered the ashes of its constitution in Ganga after BJP came to power. It believes that it could play monkey with the UN...

Israel Health Minister Who Termed Coronavirus ‘Divine Punishment’ Gets Coronavirus

Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus. The minister had termed the deadly coronavirus as ‘...

Who should Imran Khan fight: Media, PTI or Corona?

If you have still not grasped challenges faced by Prime Minister Imran Khan in his 19-month struggle to achieve “good governance” then here is...

Capacity payments

A MASSIVE wheel was set in motion last week when the Cabinet Committee on Energy decided to begin the process of renegotiating capacity payments...

Welfare considerations

NEARLY a month into the pandemic, there is little indication that the worst is behind us. Ominously, a host of projections suggest an exponential...

Parliament and the Pandemic

PHOTO: EXPRESS As global coronavirus cases passed the million mark on Thursday, the world struggles to cope with containment and mitigation without...

Digital pandemic

History will record the spread of COVID-19 as the biggest challenge faced by mankind and the modern infrastructure we are so dependant on. With...

MHA redefines domicile law for complete merger of J&K with Indian Union

In 2nd phase, the Government of India has initiated more lasting actions for complete merger of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) into...

Misplaced policy of isolationism in times of Coronavirus!

The world is reeling from the current Coronavirus pandemic! It is the single most deadly infection in recent memory and has the potential to become...

New domicilelawsforIoK

DR MUHAMMAD KHAN WHILE the world is busy in coping with the crises posed by Covid-19, Indian Government has stepped-up genocide of Kashmiri youth...

More sinned against

Amid the outbreak of the coronavirus, Pakistan has found itself in turmoil. While the country stays under lockdown to prevent the spread of the...

How Saudi Arabia can save the global oil industry

Julian Lee The global oil industry is on its knees. Without action from producers to reduce supply, the situation will get much worse as the world...

Middle East power balance continues to fluctuate

https://arab.news/rwhrk Divergence among Washington’s powerhouses on whether the US should remain in Syria seems to be unresolved. It may remain...

Divine and earthly problems

Since the day of the creation of this world and of us human beings, we have always been facing problems of all kinds, some divine and some...

When will we stop believing in Coronavirus conspiracy theories?

With the entire nation held hostage at the mercy of a virus, our people are slowly being driven to madness in the midst of this seemingly perpetual...

Prospective From Pendemic

From the hustle and bustle to the sounds of silence From the pomp and boom to the mundane and gloom The pandemic has brought the world to a...

Horse sense!

KHALID SALEEM PICK up the daily news-paper and what is the first thing that comes to one’s notice. More than any thing else, it is the nation’s...

Corona and the energy sector

The government continues to be in search of a way out for reducing or arresting the projected increase in gas and electricity tariff. I have also...

The pandemic and politics

US seems to abandon Afghan land once again as Ball is in the court of Ashraf Ghani

The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in the US State Department, Alice Wells dropped a...

Charsadda’s Recovered Coronavirus Patient Feared Doctors Would Kill Him

A recovered patient of coronavirus in Charsadda, Khyber Paktunkhwa (KP) has opened up about his ordeal during his time in isolation. In an...

India’s Cunningness

Stranded abroad

It comes as a major comfort to Pakistanis stranded abroad and their families who were losing hope about their loved ones as international flights...

Time to revamp the HEC funding system

Covid-19: ordeal of common man

A general view of the Cross is seen with a road with few traffic during a partial lockdown after Pakistan shut all markets, public places and...

Minorities face persecution in India

SAJJAD SHAUKAT WHILE, the ideology of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) is the genesis of Hindu ter rorism, having co-relationship with it, India’s...

Stock values vs human values

Dow Jones is down. Nasdaq is nose-diving. PSX is declining. Stock values are crashing. The world is talking about recession, deficits and...

Rising To The Challenge

How long will the pandemic last? 3 Covid scenarios

How long will the coronavirus pandemic last along with the deep economic recession it has created? I am a pessimist and fear a protracted tragedy....

US aircraft carrier should never have been sent to Vietnam

Stephen Bryen The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill, arrived in Da Nang, Vietnam...

To beat the global pandemic, empower local leaders

Michael Bloomberg While many Americans are watching the daily news conferences by President Donald Trump and some governors, the action behind the...

Can virtual sport replace the void left by COVID-19 sporting cancellations?

Neil Clark In a parallel universe, you’d now be reading my Sputnik Intelligent Punter’s Guide to the 2020 Grand National. But the big race, like...

What does the PM say now?

This is apropos a Business Recorder news item titled “Inquiry committee report “Export behind increase in sugar prices" carried by the...

COVID-19: A Challenge For Muslim American Community

I heard a loud recitation of the Holy Quran as I walked into my mother’s room. “Did you talk to the doctor about Pa ji (elder brother)”, she...

Pakistanis Stranded In The UK Call For Government Support

Hundreds of Pakistani citizens are stuck in the UK amid COVID-19 crisis after the Civil Aviation Authority closed Pakistan’s airspace on March...

Why Canada was the first to jump on OPEC+ wagon

https://arab.news/69hzp The first non-OPEC large producer open to joining any potential global oil output cuts with OPEC to reduce the huge...

Justice in the time of corona (and after)

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic is a great reason for rethinking the provision of legal services and dispensation of justice in the country and...

Dangerous metaphor

I have been feeling troubled by the use of war metaphors to describe how the United States is or should be responding to the Covid-19 pandemic....

Seeking a way out

Hajj Cancelled 40 Times In Past Amid Conflicts and Epidemics in Holy Sites

This year amid COVID pandemic, the annual largest Muslim congregation, Hajj has  been cancelled off by the KSA Government. While the news might be...

Balochistan Police Beat Up, Arrest Doctors For Protesting Non-Availability Of Protective Gear

Quetta: Police beat up and arrested more than 150 doctors and medical staff on Monday for protesting against the non-availability of Personal...

Is US & China finding a win-win situation amid global recession?

Beijing-Washington talks were eavesdropped hearing, “Let us divide the world into two halves. You keep the east and let the west remain with me....

Wheat Shortage In Punjab

Spending without due process not advised

Primary deficit of 0.6 percent with singular lack of focus on the fiscal deficit (7.2 percent was set as the target for 2019-20 – identical to...

The Bell Jar Shattered: ‘Mad Genius’ And Creativity-Illness Psychiatry

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious (melancholy,...

Virgin Mary’s story offers relevant lessons on survival

https://arab.news/8ky36 As the countries of the world assemble for a global fight against the coronavirus pandemic, a number of key elements must...

NMC creditors should forget their differences while pandemic rages

https://arab.news/rng69 There is never a good time to go bust, but for a hospitals operator such as NMC Health, the middle of a global pandemic is...

Khusro Bakhtiar Loses Food Security Ministry In Major Cabinet Reshuffle

Prime Minister Imran Khan has replaced Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar with PTI leader Syed Fakhar Imam as Federal Minister for National Food Security....

In Highest Single-Day Increase, Punjab Reports 436 New Cases

436 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Punjab on Monday, which is the highest number in a day. The total number of cases in the province has...