Setting things right with a frontal approach

Social structure in a society determines the functions of polity and politics and psychology and sociology of the people as individuals and their...

Prospects of Pak-US ties under Joe Biden

Dr Muhammad Khan IN the historical perspective, Pakistan-United States relationships have been uneven and mostly interest driven. There have been...

CPEC — the engine of our growth

Fiftyone memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with an initial 46 billion dollar envisaged investment were signed in April 2015 during Chinese...

Oldest democracy on its last legs ?

M Ziauddin WITH Americans, including the nation’s political leaders, deeply polarised, the Capitol insurrection on 06 January 2021 was the...

Man’s inhumanity to man

Khalid Saleem THESE days of the Corona-virus Pandemic that has turned the world upside down brings to mind several issues of concern that have...

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Education is identity

Nimra Akram In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, story of education is a nightmare. The data on Federal Education and Professional Training...

Electric vehicles: A reality check

Syed Asim Ali Bukhari THE growing number of environmentally conscious citizens of Pakistan maybe strong advocates of the current government’s...

Establishing SEZs

A Danger To World Peace

Fencing the western border

Pulwama Black Swan

Pakistan vindicated; India exposed

Trumped, twittered and mobbed

The expected happened. Donald Trump’s trumpet of fighting till the end was literal and real. For most people in the world the scenes of a mob...

COVID-19: Digital banking tipping point in Pakistan

The Covid-19 pandemic has not only impacted but rather transformed almost all aspects of our lives. The year 2020 witnessed countries being brought...

PIA plane impounded at KL

A PIA B777 has been impounded on court orders before departure at KL, because of default in lease payments. Any experienced professional CFO and...

Education Reforms: No Need To Reinvent Curriculum

Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood announced on December 20, 2020 that his ministry had started the process to formulate an education...

Bury your dead

“Bury your dead and I shall arrive”. This is what the Hazara community was told after eleven Hazara coal miners were blindfolded and slaughtered....

Fortune diggers

Any episode that creates suspense and thrill quickly grabs public attention. People glue themselves to various types of news media to know what...

Parliamentary diplomacy

National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser’s conduct of parliamentary diplomacy through the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Afghanistan presents...

A ‘success’ story?

On December 19, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on live television. This kicked off a...

Climate disaster

Many people are rightly preoccupied by the unfolding political events in Washington with Donald Trump becoming the first ever President to be...

Transformation for survival

Religious parties have always been very instrumental in the making and breaking of governments – military and civilian – in Pakistan. They work...

Lahore: A garden to garbage city

The New Year brought glad tidings for Lahore from one of the most prominent and influential newspaper in the world, the New York Times. In its...

President Trump and his love of power

Admittedly President Trump has a towering personality very fit for his office. Over 6 feet tall, with an un-unusually large jawbone and his large...

Washington, a city under siege

The US capital, Washington DC, these days gives the look of a town under siege. Many roads and all access to the White House and the US Congress,...

To be or not to be: Pros & cons of recognizing Israel

The recognition of Israel has put the Muslim world in a dilemma and in particular Pakistan. The ‘to be or not to be’ takes twists and turns on its...

New vehicle companies in Pakistan causing trouble for the Big 3...

ISLAMABAD: The auto industry of Pakistan is on a shift that is going to positively effect the consumer market who were compromising on low quality...

If My Friends Could Write… (A Novel Excerpt)

The following is an excerpt from Mohammad Shehzad’s upcoming novel. He is a journalist/writer and can be reached at: [email protected] Qalandar...

Jaipur Film Festival Selects Pakistani Film – To Screen Today!

Pakistani filmmaker Umar Riaz’s film Koi Aashiq Kissi Mehboob Se  / Some Lover To Some Beloved has been selected for screening at India’s...