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No woman should ever have to fear the very institution entrusted with protecting her. Yet when the alleged perpetrator is a police officer and the...
UN rights experts are the latest group to sound the alarm over India's audacious campaign to assassinate prominent dissidents abroad. In a...
The PML-N is poised to form its government in AJK as the state awaits the third and final leg of polling on August 10. Following the first two phases...
Seventeen dead, more than twenty wounded, an entire district placed under emergency - this is the arithmetic of Sunday's suicide bombing outside...
The MQM-P is in disarray as recent infighting exposes its deep fault lines. Once the heartthrob of Karachiites for defending the city's rights,...
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, most of Pakistan has experienced either near normal or below normal rainfall in the month of...
No one should die of rabies in 2026. It is among the deadliest diseases known to medicine, yet it is also among the most preventable. That Sindh has...
Being on the roads of Pakistan - as a driver, rider or pedestrian - can be a fatal gamble. Punjab alone tells the story in numbers: Rescue 1122...
Pakistan is facing a profound security crisis as militant violence hit a sharp peak in July 2026. During this deadliest month, over 112 security...
The recent protest by over 300 sanitation workers in Rawalpindi is a damning indictment of how Pakistan treats the men and women whose blood, sweat...
The idea that there are people dying in Pakistan because they lack access to air-conditioning seems like a convoluted, tone-deaf take by a...
The number of children orphaned by the Israeli onslaught has crossed 60,000, and there is no sign that the Zionist government can be shamed into...
For Pakistan's coal miners, the greatest danger has never been the darkness beneath the earth but the indifference above it. Negligence this time...
The reignition of tensions in the Middle East is worrying planners in the Ministry of Finance, who are now accepting that inflation is going to be a...
The contention that the present system is not delivering is not new. It has been debated for decades, as we experimented with democracy,...
Pakistan's men's football team will step onto unfamiliar ground later this year when it competes in the inaugural FIFA ASEAN Cup in...
Karachi has learnt to live with violence. It knows what it means to live under the shadow of extortion rackets and organised criminal syndicates. That...
Pakistan threw its weight behind diplomacy as it vowed to bring the arch-foes, the US and Iran, back to the table. The Foreign Office on Thursday...
After a long hiatus, the PTI has apparently decided to flex its muscles and kickstart a mass-contact campaign. Its decision to stage a public rally on...
Pakistan is in the grip of a hepatitis crisis of staggering proportions. With an estimated 12 to 15 million people infected with hepatitis B or C, the...
Under the Punjab Vagrancy (Amendment) Act 2025, begging was made a non-bailable offence in the province last year, with 'ringleaders' facing...
HIV in Sindh is more widespread than initially believed: this is the inescapable conclusion one has to draw from the latest infections uncovered at...
Pakistan is trapped in an abusive relationship with the monsoon season, as the same rains that are crucial for farmers are death-bringers for people...
Marred by protests, the first phase of the AJK Legislative Assembly elections has ended with a PML-N victory in the Mirpur division. The PML-N...
This year, the Sindh government has been making impressive strides in education by introducing reliable, transparent systems through widespread...
For the first time since 2016, Pakistan has regained a 'B' sovereign credit rating from S&P Global Ratings. The upgrade from our...
A ruling party built on a majority of over 300 seats has just discovered that street numbers can outweigh parliamentary ones. Dharmendra...
Pakistan's power sector has long been trapped in a vicious cycle of inefficiencies and mounting circular debt. Consumers have repeatedly been...
OpenAI's recent admission that its AI models went rogue, broke out of its test environment and hacked another AI company's systems seemed to...
Pakistan has consistently reminded the international community of the festering Afghan crisis and how terror outfits are playing havoc in the region....
Climate scientists and activists have long alerted the world to the perils of climate change that extend far beyond melting glaciers and rising...
The violence that has engulfed Mastung over the past several days is part of a deliberate campaign to destabilise Balochistan by spreading fear among...
The Houthis are endangering navigational traffic in the Bab El-Mandeb Strait. Their naval blockade of Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea is ultra vires under...
India's farcical claims regarding its democratic credentials are being laid bare by the government's response to the Cockroach Janata Party...
A national database is only as trustworthy as the people entrusted to protect it. That is why the tempering of Nadra's records, according to FIA,...
The optimism exhibited by the warring sides pledging their faith in diplomacy offers a ray of hope in adversity. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's...
Justice delayed may not always amount to justice denied, but it inevitably comes at a cost that no court order can fully repair. More than three...
Former Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham strode through the gates of Buckingham Palace on Monday and into 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister of...
PTI's offer of a national grand dialogue is worth appreciating and must pave the way for addressing the lingering political instability. The...
The comical mimicry of an average Karachi man notoriously involves a muffled, sibilant speech with a lot of rolled r's to replicate their manner...
Spain has won its second World Cup, and the scoreline flatters Argentina more than the match did. A single goal from Ferran Torres in the 106th minute...
The decision to launch a nationwide lawyers' movement in protest against the 26th and 27th constitutional amendments could be a game-changer on...
Pakistan has become accustomed to celebrating each successful loan rollover as though it were an economic achievement. It is not. It is merely a...
Sindh's government raised the minimum wage to Rs43,000 this year. On paper, that should mean that all workers unequivocally receive a basic level...
It is a given that Sindh province has one of the most precarious healthcare systems in the country. It is also ironic that Karachi, despite being the...
Pakistan's IT exports hit a new record in the recently ended fiscal year, crossing $4.6 billion, and monthly exports hit $416 million in June....
Climate change has become Pakistan's defining development challenge, yet the global financial architecture created to help vulnerable countries...
Pakistan's relationship with the European Union under the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP ) has been nothing short of transformative....
"No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark," wrote a British-Somali poet named Warsan Shire - 14 years before one of the...
Pakistan's decision to become a founding member of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO) should be seen as more than...