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An air of tragedy permeates Ali Muhammad Goth; after all, this is the locality where as many as 18 people are said to have lost their lives due to...
OVERSIGHT of illegal industrial activity occurring within residential areas in the country is weak, especially in poorer areas. However, this criminal...
IT is over. Nearly four months after Ishaq Dar descended on the cash-strapped economy with some decidedly outlandish plans — plans which seemingly...
THE IMF decision to send its mission to Pakistan next week to discuss the resumption of its stalled bailout package should clear uncertainty and...
ONE way the state abdicates responsibility in Pakistan is by farming out its functions to the private sector. In this regard, we have witnessed...
THOUGH India’s invitation to Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation events in Goa later this year has not been extended in the...
THE wheels are turning. The Election Commission has started its homework to hold elections for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab assemblies as well as...
JUST what has been gained by the government from the arrest of Fawad Chaudhry, one of the PTI’s most visible leaders, is anybody’s guess. All it...
THE ‘management’ of the exchange rate by the State Bank, allegedly at the behest of the government, to ward off steeper rupee devaluation due to...
IF the claim of former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, that Pakistan and India came close to a nuclear exchange following the Balakot misadventure...
FREQUENT changes in the formation of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the gun attack on former prime minister Imran Khan in Wazirabad has...
THE State Bank’s decision to hike its key policy rate to a 25-year high of 17pc to anchor inflation expectations is largely in line with the market...
THERE is much that needs to be unpacked from the catastrophic failure of the national energy transmission system early Monday, which left the entire...
EVEN by the abysmal standards of our broken legal system, the acquittal of former SSP Rao Anwar and his 17 subordinates in the murder of Naqeebullah...
IT is difficult to accept the free speech argument being used to ‘defend’ frequent acts of desecration by extremists targeting symbols held dear...
NEW DELHI’S extreme reaction to a BBC documentary on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid bare the BJP regime’s increasingly authoritarian...
BLAME the politicians. Even those among us otherwise considered the staunchest optimists are now succumbing to the defeatism pervading the air. The...
THE Saudi position not to recognise Israel until there is a two-state solution to the Palestine question is a welcome one. The kingdom’s foreign...
PAKISTAN has for the past several decades been battling sectarianism. While targeted killings and sectarian acts of terrorism may currently be down,...
THE country’s policy machinery has of late acted not very different from the indolent ass which inexplicably sets itself down in the middle of a...
A DAY after the FIFA-AFC delegation left the country after holding meetings with officials of the Pakistan Football Federation Normalisation Committee...
TRANSPHOBIA takes many forms, all of them cruel and degrading. Sometimes it emanates from unexpected quarters. On Friday at the Karachi airport,...
THE ‘conceptual agreements’ reached between Pakistan and Russia for the supply of Russian crude oil on Friday signify the first tangible step...
IN recent weeks and months, the US has made no secret of the fact that it is closely monitoring developments in Pakistan, both on the security and...
THE government shocked the Lahore High Court this week when during a hearing of a petition seeking past details of Toshakhana gifts, it said such...
EXILE is nothing new for Pakistan’s political class. Leaders have often slipped away to safer foreign climes fearing persecution at home by the...
IN deciding to step back from its rigid position on the IMF’s bailout conditions, and leaning towards an early resumption of the stalled loan...
RECENT statements by two major political leaders have underlined the perception that there is no political agreement on tackling resurgent terrorism....
THE laments of Pakistani Hindu families losing one young girl after another to what they allege are forced conversions and marriage to Muslim men were...
CONTROVERSY continues to dog the results of the second phase of LG elections in Sindh conducted on Sunday, particularly the results for Karachi. As...
THE birth and death anniversaries of iconic Sindhi nationalist leader G.M. Syed usually pass off without incident, as various groups espousing...
WHERE matters of dubious blasphemy charges are concerned, the role of many ulema in Pakistan has, unfortunately, not been a positive one. Instead of...
AFTER the extended rout at the Pakistan Stock Exchange over the past few sessions, there are few doubts about how the PDM government’s management of...
EVEN at the best of times, it is not easy to access quality public healthcare in Sindh. Since the past few months, conditions have become more...
THE proposal that foreign intermediaries can help bridge the trust gap in South Asia is not new, and in the absence of any substantial bilateral...
IMRAN Khan’s hinted return to the National Assembly in order to enforce, through parliament, his party’s demand for early elections has been...
THE local government set-up in Karachi is divided into three tiers — union committees (UCs), town municipal corporations (TMCs) and City...
There was no issue of the paper on Jan 17, 1973 due to the Eidul Azha holiday. The following is an excerpt from the previous day’s edition. NEW...
RELIEF FOR VICTIMS: The purpose of having a legal system is to ensure fair trial and impartiality for all concerned so that the dispensation of...
AS the winter has set in, smog in all its might and magnitude has gripped most parts of the country, especially Punjab. Lahore was recently labelled...
FOG turns into smog, which is more intense and hazardous than the former. Most of the major cities of Pakistan, including Lahore, Faisalabad, Peshawar...
THE Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) conducted the Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) 2020 almost two years ago under the supervision of the...
AT the beginning of a new year, everyone thinks about things to do and not to do in the year ahead. I wish somehow nations could do that as well....
IT has become customary for our econo- mic wizards to suggest privatisation of industries and institutions as a panacea for the nation’s economic...
WHEN it comes to press freedom, the arrest of journalist Shahid Aslam highlights the weaknesses in our democracy and the state’s failure to do the...
OVER the past year, inefficiencies and unfair practices in our domestic automobile market, import restrictions, stratospheric increases in car prices...
AFTER much ado, the second phase of local government elections in Sindh was held on Sunday, despite the provincial government’s best efforts to...
AFTER the arrest of Haq Do Tehreek (HDT) leader Maulana Hidayatur Rehman, the mood in Gwadar has been sombre over the weekend. The Maulana had been in...