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MORE than two years after MNAs loyal to former prime minister Imran Khan fatefully resigned from the legislature following the April 2022 vote of...
THE horrific incident of a woman allegedly gang-raped in front of her husband and three-year-old daughter near Sukheki in Hafizabad district, Punjab,...
EVEN a perceived threat to civil rights and freedom of expression undermines democracy; it impedes the enforcement of laws and creates a trust deficit...
IN a theatrical display of protest, the PTI has introduced a novel concept: the four-hour hunger strike. While one might appreciate the creativity...
ISRAELI Prime Minister BENJAMIN Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday was a shameful spectacle. Here, a man accused...
THERE is little wrong with the proposal in principle, even if the timing raises some concerns. During a Wednesday session, the Senate Standing...
FINANCE Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s recent discussions with the executives of the two top global credit rating agencies, Fitch and Moody’s, are...
THE Beijing Declaration signed in the Chinese capital on Tuesday reiterates the need for internal Palestinian unity at a critical time when people of...
THE ongoing tussle between the current regime and PTI will only end up causing lasting harm to Pakistan. This much can be expected when all rules and...
IT seems that the PML-N and PPP need to be reminded again that they are doing themselves a considerable disservice by either directing or quietly...
A FIERCE debate blaming the exorbitant electricity prices on expensive power purchase agreements with IPPs has been raging for the past couple of...
A MAJOR question confronting the state concerns those militants who have laid down their arms — euphemistically referred to as the ‘good’...
DECREASING cotton production should be a worry for the government because of its socioeconomic implications. Early arrivals for the current period...
THE state needs to seek serious answers from the German authorities regarding the July 20 mob attack targeting Pakistan’s consulate in Frankfurt. A...
THE clarification was much needed and, perhaps, could have come sooner. The DG ISPR’s Monday press conference was helpful in addressing some key...
PRIYA Kumari — the minor girl who vanished on Ashura in 2021 while serving water at a sabeel in Sukkur district — is one of our many festering...
THE International Court of Justice has delivered a legal blow to the decades-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. In a non-binding...
PAKISTAN’s population bomb is not ticking anymore; it has already exploded. The detailed results of the 2023 digital census published by the...
KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA and Balochistan are smouldering. Civil unrest has rocked the two provinces in recent days, with large protests culminating in...
PUNJAB Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s open assault on the Supreme Court for ruling in favour of the PTI in the reserved seats case came as a shock....
FROM 10 in Tokyo the last time, it is now down to seven in Paris, and split across just three disciplines. When Pakistan’s contingent marches out...
FITCH seems to be more optimistic about Pakistan accelerating its economic growth rate to 3.2pc during this fiscal year from last year’s 2.4pc than...
CHAOS has engulfed Dhaka, as well as other parts of Bangladesh, over the past few days. Anti-government protests had been gaining momentum for several...
DESPITE the government’s protestations, a constitutional crisis seems to have been averted — at least for now. After two days of deliberations,...
THE provincial authorities have been taking precautionary measures, or so we have been told, to cope with emergency situations that could result from...
THE normally peaceful sultanate of Oman was shaken by sectarian terrorism on Monday when militants belonging to the self-styled Islamic State group...
TROUBLE is brewing in KP, where terrorist outfits are growing ever more emboldened in their attacks. This week, two outrageous assaults on a...
THE recent UK elections have ushered in the most diverse parliament in the nation’s history. Under the leadership of newly elected Prime Minister...
THE trade ministry’s ‘plan’ to almost double exports to $60bn over the next three years is nothing more than wishful thinking. The ‘new’...
IN the midst of the storm triggered by the government’s ill-advised announcement about banning the PTI, there is a ray of hope. Aide to the prime...
AS FOOTAGE of the attack on Donald Trump was aired by US media on Saturday, participants in a Muslim religious gathering in Virginia waited for more...
THE massacre of innocents continues in the killing fields of Gaza, as most of the world looks away. Moreover, many of Israel’s foreign enablers are...
EMERGING from the ashes of World War II, and locked in confrontation with the Soviet-led Communist bloc for over four decades during the Cold War,...
IT is dangerous for a government to appear so desperate. Like grains of sand, power slips quicker from the hand the tighter the fist is clenched. In...
IT has been ten days since the Labour party won a landslide in the UK’s general election and now the relish is slowly fading with practical...
THE country has an old drug problem. While the menace has raged across divides of class and gender, successive rulers have failed to clear its fatal...
THE recently released UN monitoring team’s report on Afghanistan captures the dilemma confronting the international community where dealing with the...
IT was a needless, despicable spectacle which only ended up uniting both conservatives and progressives in condemning the state. Now, some five months...
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s budget for the present fiscal year has whipped up seething anger against his administration at home but won him a...
SOMEONE had to take the blame and bear the brunt of the fallout from Pakistan’s disastrous showing at the T20 World Cup. This past week saw Wahab...
WHEN it comes to the troubling issue of enforced disappearances/ missing persons — either Baloch or belonging to other ethnic/ religious groups, or...
FOR once, it is hard to argue against the reason that compelled flour mills to call a nationwide strike from Thursday. The flour mill owners are...
THE verdict is in. It was the PTI, not ‘PTI-backed independents’, which won the most seats in the Feb 8 general election. This distinction, for...
BY acknowledging that smog is a year-round problem, and not just a winter issue, the Punjab government has taken the first meaningful step towards...
THE cabinet’s decision to allow ‘legal’ Afghan refugees — meaning those with Proof of Registration cards — to stay in the country till June...
A PERVASIVE gloom darkens the days of almost all working-class Pakistani households. From tea shops to opinion columns in local newspapers, the...
THE impression that the state is being careless towards aspects of organ trade control is damaging. Recent news about the Punjab Human Organ...
OUR inability to collect sufficient tax revenue is resulting in persistently high fiscal deficits, forcing successive governments to accumulate an...
PAKISTAN is the world’s fifth most populous nation, yet the resources and socioeconomic tools needed to provide for over 240m souls are severely...
THE judgement of a court in Kenya has brought some clarity to the brutal murder of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif in that country in October 2022....