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WHEN thermometers in Lahore hit 48°C last May, it led to closures across the region. From Dhaka to Manila, some ...
PAKISTAN is at a critical point. Inconsistent and poor economic policies of the past have had an adverse impact on...
IN his efforts to restore America’s supposed greatness, Donald Trump has launched a crackdown on migrants —...
THE federal government appears to have gone back on its word to rescind the facility of free electricity for both...
IT is time Pakistan asserted itself more forcefully and played a bigger role in busting international human...
THE proverbial might of the pen is, in reality, unable to hold out against the barrel of the gun. The new HRCP...
MERE days after pausing the Gaza genocide, Israel has turned its guns on the occupied West Bank. Though Israel had...
WHEN bureaucrats fancy themselves as scholars, universities suffer. It’s a pity this is a lesson the Sindh...
It would have been wiser for PTI to not react to the provocation. However bitter their differences, both parties need something from each other.
THE vision of this country’s founding father was that of a Muslim-majority state where members of all religious...
THE PML-N government seems to have finally firmed up its mind on the future of the Utility Stores. The cabinet has...
The Pakistani state must stop inflicting wounds on itself and learn to resolve its internal issues through social and political means.
THE skies over Lahore have fallen silent. Punjab’s latest legislation banning kite flying represents a troubling...
THE Punjab government’s contentious plans to build new canals to facilitate corporate farming in the province ...
IT appears that some Supreme Court justices will not go gently into the night. Though the institution’s authority...
THE air connectivity established by the inauguration of PIA flights between Karachi and Gwadar is a major step...
GRAND infrastructure projects in Pakistan often progress at the pace of a bullock cart rather than a bullet train....
THE ECP has once again earned a detailed reprimand from the Supreme Court. That it still refuses to correct course is ominous
ISLAMABAD’S plans to raise $200m from China’s capital markets through the inaugural issue of a Panda bond this...
THE demand raised by the people of Gilgit-Baltistan for constitutional clarity and provisional provincial status is...
Few have forgotten how disruptive Trump could be as president. There has been little indication that his 2nd term will be any different.
WHEN a country’s children go hungry, its future withers. In Pakistan, where over 40pc of children under five are...
THE IMF has slightly marked down its previous growth forecast for Pakistan’s economy from 3.2pc to 3pc for the...
The country’s jails serve as monuments to bureaucratic paralysis rather than justice.
GIVEN that most bureaucrats in our country are not really known for contributions to pedagogical excellence, it ...
IT is pleasantly surprising that the authorities are moving with such purpose to potentially revolutionise...
THE validity of the claim by state functionaries that the violence in KP’s Kurram district stems from a ‘tribal...
TALK is cheap. Can electricity also be? The government has recently announced that Pakistan will benefit from the...
AS reports emerge of another migrant boat sinking — this time in the Atlantic off the coast of Western Sahara — ...
One wonders whether the case is as closed as PTI’s critics would have one believe.
THE latest inflammatory remarks by India’s military brass about Pakistan mark a troubling departure from the...
THAT the World Bank will give $20bn to Pakistan in the next 10 years to address some of the country’s most acute...
The Gaza genocide has also revealed the utter helplessness of the Palestinian Authority in projecting Palestine’s case globally.
IN what is a social minefield for women, the Punjab police investigation department’s decision to deploy 1,450...
PAKISTAN’S cybercrime-fighting apparatus is proving rather good at harassing journalists and remarkably poor at...
THE message from politicians regarding Afghanistan is clear: the state needs to talk to the Afghan Taliban, using ...
THE launch of the faceless customs assessment system as part of the government’s Tax Transformation Plan is a...
WHEN racist tropes are amplified by the expansive reach of social media, the affected communities face real-world...
IT has taken a tour of Pakistan’s provinces for Chief Justice Yahya Afridi to be “jolted” by the crisis of...
FOR a country with huge winter sports potential, events in Pakistan are few and far between. Therefore, the start of...
TWO recent deadly mining tragedies in Balochistan have once again exposed the hazardous nature of work in this...
FOR a country that produced the world’s youngest Nobel laureate for championing girls’ education, Pakistan’s...
THE Indus dolphin, or bulhan as it is known locally, is a remarkable species found only in the Indus River. Unlike...
WHEN home feels like a sinking ship, people are forced to make ill-fated journeys for a better life. Last month,...
IT seems that the dark days of the freewheeling internet have returned. Two of the largest global social media...
KARACHI, Pakistan’s economic juggernaut, is the largest contributor to the nation’s tax revenue. The Federal...
THE Gwadar deep-sea port, completed in 2007, was supposed to be a shining success for the other newly built ports in...
REMITTANCES sent home by migrant Pakistani workers have been a saving grace for the country’s faltering economy ...
THE country’s aviation authorities can rest a little easy. After a four-year banishment from European skies,...
STATE Bank Governor Jameel Ahmed appears to be quite optimistic over recent economic gains. That is not unusual;...