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Pakistan's economic engine is being choked by organised crime, with top cops and even wealthy businessmen now freely admitting who runs the show. The...
At a time when households are already squeezed by inflation, the proposal to impose new fixed monthly electricity charges on residential consumers...
The United Nations has once again indicted the Taliban regime for harbouring terrorists, and looking the other way as these nefarious entities play...
As the country prepares for the holy month of Ramazan, many wholesalers and shopkeepers are also getting ready by marking up food prices, including a...
A breakthrough of sorts in Imran Khan's legal cases was attained yesterday as the Supreme Court allowed PTI counsel, Salman Safdar, to meet the...
It's official, Pakistan is playing the February 15 game against India. The marquee event of the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup is definitely on! However,...
That the dog-bite menace is widespread – with cases being reported from urban centres to small towns alike – goes without saying. That it is...
Hamas has thrown a spanner in the works by reiterating that it would not disarm itself. This declaration, after a long pause from the Palestinian...
At a moment when Pakistan is grappling with economic recovery and political polarisation, the nation's elected representatives appear disturbingly...
The decision of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to conduct a tree census and manage non-native species like the pollen-heavy paper mulberry is...
The world is in the middle of an extreme backslide in democracy, with Human Rights Watch saying that about 72s% of the world now lives under...
Just when households believed they had found a rare hedge against runaway electricity bills, the state appears ready to move the goalposts. The...
The federal government-backed Household Integrated Economic Survey 2024-25 reflects the paradox facing Pakistan, as signs of national progress are...
With uncertainty still surrounding whether Pakistan will face India on February 15, the Men in Green have at least ensured their ICC T20 World Cup...
The call for countrywide agitation and shutdown today is in remembrance of an election verdict that was not honoured. The February 8, 2024 vote had...
Recent data confirms that, despite some gains, Pakistan remains at the bottom of South Asia's literacy rankings. A Free and Fair Election Network...
Pakistan's salaried class continues to be treated as the state's most convenient cash cow - heavily taxed, tightly documented and yet persistently...
A suicide bombing and subsequent bloodshed at a Shia mosque in the federal capital is too disturbing to account for. The daredevil attack in the...
Pakistan's demographic profile is often described as a "youth bulge", but without urgent and sustained job creation, it risks becoming a source of...
President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping's tête-à-tête has pushed the envelope of cooperation, irrespective of the fact that they...
Basant has returned to Lahore. The eagerly anticipated spring festival has the potential to spark a cultural reawakening, taking us back to a time...
The latest, most wide-ranging modelling published in The Lancet Global Health paints a stark picture of evidence that should immediately shake the...
Preventable public health crises rarely announce themselves with sirens. More often, they arrive quietly until the damage is already done. The scourge...
India is apparently back on the mosaic of trade and commerce with the US, as both cheered a deal with little statistics to boast. The agreement was...
As the international world processes the heinous amounts of child sexual abuse data released from the Epstein files, at home the National Cyber Crimes...
Islamabad's participation in the dialogue process between Iran and the US is a promising development. That simply provides credence to the fact that...
The meeting between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and K-P Chief Minister Sohail Afridi is welcome not merely for its optics but for what it attempts...
Balochistan is in the grip of terror rooted in geopolitical interventions. The daredevil onslaught on no less than a dozen cities and towns of the...
Having already lost its historical reputation as a game of gentlemen rooted in etiquette, fair play, justice and camaraderie, cricket has regressed...
Punjab's prisons are bursting at the seams, and the consequences are no longer confined to administrative discomfort. With jail occupancy standing 81%...
For millions of Pakistanis working abroad, the dream of returning home is shattered not by distance, but by betrayal. A staggering 40% of overseas...
After a prolonged phase of stabilisation and a hesitant recovery, the government is finally signalling a shift towards growth — and, crucially,...
For the first time in more than half a century, power sector emissions in both China and India declined simultaneously in 2025. This is no small...
The deaths of a woman and her 10-month-old daughter, who fell into an open sewer near Bhatti Gate, are a tragic reminder that the curse of open...
An unease in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf is pushing the region to the verge of an avoidable confrontation. While the United States is busy...
Nipah virus is among the deadliest zoonotic pathogens known to modern medicine - a disease with no vaccine, no specific antiviral treatment and a...
As a Biman commercial carrier touched down on the tarmac of Karachi airport, it was history in the making. Both countries have resumed their aviation...
Every Pakistani now carries a public debt burden of approximately Rs333,000 — a figure that is rising by the minute and threatens to eclipse total...
Preventable accidents have sadly been routine in Karachi, but the Gul Plaza inferno may yet mark a rare moment where official acknowledgement is...
Government officials continue to regularly put out statements celebrating overseas Pakistanis and remittances while completely missing the point of...
The rumours that Imran Khan, the jailed PTI leader, is not keeping good health have proven true. A belated confirmation has come from the government...
The population of stray dogs in Karachi has been steadily increasing for quite a few years, with no humane plan of action in place to control it....
That Tirah Valley is a troubled spot in the context of state writ goes without saying. Credible reports suggest that the Valley bordering Afghanistan...
The Federal Constitutional Court's verdict on super tax has come to uphold the jurisdiction of the parliament to impose taxation. The court has...
Due to a massive discrepancy in the number of nurses being churned out at government expense and the number of jobs that are available for said nurses...
The SBP surprised pundits by holding its benchmark policy rate steady at 10.5%. While most analysts expected a cut in response to an extended period...
National identity is a source of pride and is in need of being upheld. The phenomenon of dual citizenship, however, is subjective, and people who go...
The inability of Taliban 2.0 to inspire Afghans is an undeniable fact. Likewise, the reclusive regime is rapidly turning out to be an existential...
As early predictions for winter in Pakistan this year ring true, citizens continue to battle one of the coldest winters in many years as a result of...
The parliament's passage of the Domestic Violence Act, 2026, is yet another attempt to address an undeniable and deeply entrenched social ill....
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