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The resources the government will put at risk if it ventures into the world of crypto are public resources.
To implement its philosophy the RSS believes in kinetic action.
China’s adhesion to Pakistan is now well tested.
THE CII’s commitment to stalling pro-women legislation with conservative interpretations of religion and tradition...
Govt needs to create an ecosystem for digital transactions before we can actually hope to become a cashless economy.
AS if the anti-Pakistan venom being spewed by hyper-nationalist sections of the Indian media was not enough, sadly,...
Sloth and inertia have made the civil services unresponsive and inefficient.
Twenty-seven years after Pakistan’s nuclear tests, a pressing doctrinal dilemma has come into focus: while the nuclear arsenal has succeeded in...
FOR journalists, it is something many dream about. The job of reporting crime and corruption could be made much easier if all they needed to do to...
WHAT’S the budget if not ‘strategic’? A mere accounting exercise; an attempt at balancing income and expenditure of the government? Well, the...
SUCCESSFUL defence against India’s unwarranted aggression is certainly a great accomplishment and a matter of pride for the nation and the security...
AMID constant sociopolitical turmoil, Pakistan’s journalists have been under siege for long. As attempts to intimidate them into silence grow more...
WE are celebrating our victory. And with good reason. Our mature and befitting response to the unprovoked aggression on non-military targets by...
AMONG the innumerable miracles Donald Trump claims to have performed in the past four months, has he also sidelined the Netanyahu regime? That was...
A NEWS item in Dawn of May 21 informs us that federal and provincial ministers and members of the Board of Investment have proposed the development...
THE plans are, no doubt, quite ambitious. Whether or not they are realistic is a different question altogether. For now, there seems to be no...
IN the subcontinent, these days, the smell of victory is in the air, which is usually just choked with pollution. And while Pakistan is confident...
AI isn’t disruptive because it will “outsmart” us. It’s disruptive because it dissolves a distinction we thought was solid — the line between human...
GOOGLE Translate has become among the handiest apps for a good reason. It discards the cliché about the meaning getting lost in translation and...
After ending in a draw on the battlefield, the epic Indo-Pak tussle has moved to the battlefield of peaceful diplomacy, where it belonged from day...
A PAKISTAN Super League season that had to be halted and then restarted, losing some star power in the process, delivered the most gripping climax....
AFTER facing off on the battlefield, Pakistan and India are now fighting a battle of narratives, with each side sending high-level delegations to...
THE government has delayed the announcement of the budget for the next fiscal year by a little over a week to June 10, presumably due to lingering...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have made the crucial calls that helped de-escalate recent hostilities between Pakistan and India, but China...
WARS, even short ones, carry plenty of consequences. The India-Pakistan one from earlier this month was no different. Its aftermath leaves behind a...
WITH the national tally of polio cases rising to 10 following two new confirmations in KP, Pakistan’s ambition to eliminate the virus by year’s end...
NO summit seems beyond reach for Naila Kiani. She is now a mere two peaks away from making history. In so many ways, she already has. In terms of...
GERMAN satirist Kurt Tucholsky wrote, “The death of one man: this is a catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands of deaths: that is a statistic!” As...
DURING President Donald Trump’s recent three-nation visit to the Middle East reports in the international media suggested he had sidelined Israel...
THOUGH the guns may have fallen silent on both sides, the Indian state continues to dangle the threat of stopping Pakistan’s rightful access to...
THE war unleashed on American academia now has global attention. With Harvard University pushing back against the Trump administration’s attempts...
FEAR and anxiety have deeply penetrated Pakistani society, undermined social cohesion and eroded the social fabric. One of the major factors...
SINCE returning to Pakistan in 2017, with each passing year, I have noted how folks are beginning to look the same. Nowhere is this more visible...
PAKISTAN’S stormy history of political and rights protests shows that even the use of excessive state brutality has never been able to fracture the...
IN October 2023, when the Supreme Court struck down the military trials of civilians, the detailed judgement began with the following quote: “even...
WHO won and who lost in a war or a conflict between two or more nations is a question that is not often easily answered, especially in a limited...