Protecting women

Sindh's proposed Premarital and Marital Counselling Bill may well become one of the most meaningful social interventions of recent years — if...

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Editorial

Visa fraud and students

The recent decision by several UK universities to restrict recruitment from Pakistan and Bangladesh is a policy born of legitimate concern, but...

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Editorial

The first CDF

Pakistan's armed forces' administrative structure stands synergised, with its tri-services coordination now synchronised. The new catbird position in...

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A city's shame

The recent death of a three-year-old boy who drowned in an open manhole in Karachi is yet another reminder of the incompetence and corruption of city...

yesterday 20

Editorial

A SAARC alternate?

The eight-member SAARC, now dysfunctional for more than a decade, needs a new lease of life. It cannot be resurrected in its present edifice as it has...

yesterday 50

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Basant returns

Basant's revival in Punjab has stirred both excitement and unease — and rightly so. For Lahore in particular, the festival was a cultural signature...

yesterday 20

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Traffic deterrence

Road accidents in Punjab have become a daily threat to life. From reckless lane cutting to helmet-less riding, the highways and city arteries of...

previous day 30

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Indispensable Palestinian state

Pakistan has once again stated the obvious as it called for creation of an independent Palestinian State. The UN General Assembly resolution passed...

previous day 40

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Minority rights protection

The passage of the National Commission for Minority Rights Bill 2025 is a historic, if shamefully delayed, step toward justice. For over a decade, the...

previous day 50

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HIV trend

According to reports, the country is now experiencing one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in the region. From 2010 to 2024, the number of new HIV...

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Hazara province vote

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly's unanimous passage of a resolution demanding the creation of a Hazara province marks the formalisation of a...

thursday 50

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Taliban's trajectory

The recent cross-border activity undertaken by elements holed up inside Afghanistan against neighbouring Tajikistan is a case in point. This confirms...

thursday 50

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Mounting concerns

Concerns are growing over the security and well-being of the incarcerated former PM, Imran Khan, as the government is maintaining a mysterious silence...

03.12.2025 40

Editorial

Rhetoric beyond reform

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb's attempt to reframe the IMF's damning corruption and governance report as a "catalyst" rather than "criticism"...

03.12.2025 40

Editorial

Graves on roads

In a heartbreaking and tragic incident near Karachi's Nipa Chowrangi, a three-year-old boy named Ibrahim fell to his untimely death in an open...

03.12.2025 70

Editorial

Peaking at the right time

Good news for Pakistan cricket ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup commencing on Feb 7, 2025 in Sri Lanka. Team Pakistan has won the tri-nation T20 series...

02.12.2025 30

Editorial

Hollow victory

The November 23 bye-elections continued Pakistan's rich tradition of polling-day irregularities, but the scale was far lower than seen in recent...

02.12.2025 40

Editorial

Boots in Gaza

For decades, Pakistan has unequivocally stood with Palestinians. We have condemned Israeli aggression and consistently defended Palestinian rights at...

02.12.2025 40

Editorial

Blasphemy backtrack

Since moving to England, well over two years ago, I continue to find it difficult to explain Pakistan to westerners. They know Pakistan as a volatile...

01.12.2025 20

Editorial

Population surge

It would not be inaccurate to say that Pakistan is already experiencing a demographic emergency, but the upcoming years are set to exacerbate this...

01.12.2025 100

Editorial

Taxing cellphones

The imposition of an 18% sales tax on mobile phones is proving to be a self-defeating strategy. October's market numbers show this clearly as local...

01.12.2025 20

Editorial

Opposition's due space

The opposition seems to be on the edges. It has warned of countrywide protests if family members, lawyers and political associates are denied an...

01.12.2025 30

Editorial

Ambulance lanes

In a landmark move, Karachi has launched its first dedicated ambulance lane on Mansfield Street in Saddar, one of the city's busiest commercial hubs....

30.11.2025 20

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Arbitrary offloading

There is mounting evidence that passengers with valid visas and travel documents, including foreign work permits, are being stopped from boarding...

30.11.2025 20

Editorial

The immigrants' moment

There is a situation for immigrants in the US, as authorities decide to come down hard on all those who are in the shadows, and stringently scrutinise...

30.11.2025 40

Editorial

Climate change and Karachi

A new UN report has warned of the acute danger of an "urban heat effect" on several large cities, including Karachi, raising new concerns about how...

29.11.2025 100

Editorial

Economic dilemma

Pakistan's central bank governor could not have been more unequivocal: the country's current growth model simply cannot sustain a population of over...

29.11.2025 50

Editorial

Iran's 'blank cheque'

Tehran took a strategic leap forward as it offered to address Islamabad's irritants on the western and eastern border, unmindful of extra-regional...

29.11.2025 50

Editorial

TB burden

Pakistan is facing a public health emergency that can no longer be sidelined. The revelation that the country now hosts the fifth-largest tuberculosis...

28.11.2025 30

Editorial

New sugar crisis

The recent surge in sugar prices to record highs, despite the start of the crushing season and ample stocks, is illustrative of long-running policy...

28.11.2025 30

Editorial

Unemployment curse

Soaring unemployment is no news, but what makes it horrendous is that more than 7.1% of the populace in the country is jobless. This is one of the...

28.11.2025 100

Editorial

End of an era

At the opening ceremony of the ATP Challenger Pakistan, Aisamul Haq Qureshi quietly drew the curtain on a career that redefined what was possible for...

27.11.2025 40

Editorial

Plight of children

The plight of children in Pakistan can be gauged by a recent report that says that in the first six months of 2025, over 4,000 cases of violence...

27.11.2025 50

Editorial

India's HR violations

New Delhi's human rights excesses and extra-judicial killings were articulately pointed out at the UN, as experts expressed their serious reservations...

27.11.2025 60

Editorial

Privatising education

As of July 2024, the acute problem in education that Punjab was facing was a shortage of government schools. A fact sheet revealed that in order to...

26.11.2025 80

Editorial

COP30: unkept promises

The lights at COP30 have dimmed in Belém, and the rows of negotiating tables stand deserted. Yet as the final gavel struck, it echoed not with...

26.11.2025 60

Editorial

The one-way ballot

The PML-N's triumph on all the five National Assembly seats in Punjab by-polls was on the cards, as the opposition candidates were devoid of a...

26.11.2025 30

Editorial

Fancy buses on potholes

If you were to ask the Sindh Government about infrastructural progress in Karachi, its guardians would produce a comically long scroll of...

25.11.2025 10

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Schools or brands

Private education has over the years steadily morphed into a profit-maximising business, overshadowing its core mission of learning and development....

25.11.2025 40

Editorial

Tackling global inequality

Growing global inequality has become the defining moral and economic challenge of our age. At a time when technological advancement is rewriting the...

25.11.2025 100

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Wasteful billions

Over a decade after Sindh first launched a project to produce its own anti-snakebite serum, the province still has nothing tangible to show for it....

24.11.2025 40

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Faisalabad factory blast

The Friday's factory blast in Faisalabad town of Punjab — yet another claiming precious human lives in a residential locality in significant...

24.11.2025 20

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Behave or perish

Kabul has an indispensable choice to realign itself with Islamabad, and reorient its policies to defeat terrorism. The Taliban rulers are, indeed,...

24.11.2025 40

Editorial

Gender violence crisis

According to the Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO), at least 85 women face violence daily in Punjab, a devastating figure that...

23.11.2025 100

Editorial

Trade with EU

The preferential tariff agreement that almost single-handedly led to the Union becoming our biggest trading partner may be under threat due to...

23.11.2025 100

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Rising political heat

The PTI is in a pushback mode as it is pushed to the wall. The highhandedness and extrajudicial measures that the party is being subjected to are...

23.11.2025 60

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Larger and denser

Karachi is on its way to becoming the world's fifth-largest city in 2050, according to the United Nations, with a population of 33 million. And that's...

22.11.2025 40

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Preparing for floods

Climate change continues to be a serious threat to Pakistan, and the latest warning from NDMA only reinforces how urgent the situation has become....

22.11.2025 60

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Corruption dilemma

Corruption is a constant in Pakistan, and all are in it. A scathing report by the IMF has simply stated the obvious by pointing out that financial...

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Dog bite menace

The recent disclosure that Mayo Hospital in Lahore alone received 1,796 dog bite cases in 14 months has caused justifiable public alarm and is...

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