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A well-informed source said that there was little Nawaz Sharif could do as he has little or no elbow room on Balochistan.
Hopes for regional education exchanges are fading.
THE recent notice sent by the FIA to former senator Farhatullah Babar is deeply troubling — and revealing....
THE recent declaration by ulema affirming that organ donation after death is not only permissible but an act of...
In the absence of a trade agreement, under WTO rules, Pakistan cannot reduce duty rates for the US without doing the same for other countries.
It is important for the government to dispel the impression that superior security institutions are encroaching on the domain of the civilian...
The decline of marriage is a global trend.
IT was a monumental triumph: Noor Zaman came back from the brink to clinch the Under-23 World Squash Championships title, and in the process,...
A CONCLAVE of local divines that had gathered in Islamabad on Thursday have made two important points: firstly, that all protests and boycotts in...
FINALLY, it is happening through the US president’s executive orders — closure of USAID, the start of a tariff war to balance the trade deficit,...
IT was a week of turnarounds. The Trump White House, eager to remain on the warpath with the rest of the world, came down with ridiculous and...
EVERY year, close to 164,000 people die due to tobacco use in Pakistan. This means 450 deaths per day, more than 3,100 deaths per week and over...
WESTERN countries have been quite cruel to the Afghan people. Not only did they lay waste to the latter’s homeland over a war that ultimately went...
THE demise of former Pakistan foreign secretary Najmuddin Shaikh has been mourned not only in Pakistan but also in India by those who knew him...
TECHNICAL and vocational education and training (TVET) is a tough market to untangle. No wonder we are still struggling with it. But given where we...
WITH one stroke of his pen, a day after April Fool’s Day, Trump left the entire world bewildered at his tariff policy. He made the entire...
THE build-up to the 10th season of the Pakistan Super League, cricket’s most lucrative product in the country, has hardly been ideal. This season...
THERE is a new(ish) game in town and it is called the scramble for ‘critical’ minerals. In a world dominated by microchips and digital gadgets,...
WITH the political moral vision of the Quran, Islam defeated the corrupt socioeconomic structures of the world and linked human egalitarianism and...
THE problems of Balochistan are “political and must be resolved through political means”. This view, espoused by PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif during...
BRIGHT young Pakistanis face an uncertain future in the US. The Trump administration, not content with merely terrorising foreign students with...
THE participation of 300 delegates, including guests from overseas, in the two-day mineral summit in Islamabad has renewed hopes of growing foreign...
IN today’s complex global trade environment, Pakistan finds itself navigating between two competing demands: the Trump administration’s...
HISTORY has been in love with Lahore since forever. It was not its only admirer. The Mughals remained enamoured of it. Akbar made it the capital of...
RECENTLY China has announced construction of the world’s largest dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. India has criticised Beijing’s...
IT is quite the coup. One of the most recognisable names in the global cryptocurrency market has been roped in by the finance ministry to serve as...
BY all accounts a world is ending and we don’t know what is going to replace it. For Pakistan this is particularly troubling because despite what...
THE latest Citizens’ Report by Pildat on the performance of the Senate of Pakistan is a sobering account of parliamentary dysfunction during the...
AMID dramatic aid cuts, the WHO has sounded the alarm about the dangers to Pakistan’s mothers and newborns, asking global and national associates...
THE unrest within the Islamabad High Court shows no sign of abating, and it is perhaps just as well that the petition filed by five of its judges...
THE 18th Amendment brought new challenges in operational policing, police reforms, public service delivery, accountability, and autonomy. Before...
A mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe. — William Blake Nishaan har chehrey par, majboori ke, sadmay ke. Pindar ke khugar ko...
PRELIMINARY judgement on any new US administration usually involves waiting for at least 100 days before holding it to account. That arbitrary...
FOR the last several weeks, life in Balochistan has been paralysed with most highways connecting the province with the rest of the country blocked...
THE government’s decision to establish the National Intelligence Fusion and Threat Assessment Centre (Niftac) under the National Counter Terrorism...