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THE continued detention of Baloch Yakjehti Committee leaders — including Dr Mahrang Baloch in Quetta and Sammi ...
PAKISTAN’S legal system has issued some important rulings in recent days concerning women, which deserve more...
WHILE the more fortunate will be sharing the joys of Eidul Fitr with their families, many in the Muslim world will ...
FOR all of Pakistan’s hockey struggles, including their failure to qualify for the Olympics and World Cup as well...
PROSPECTS of the Reko Diq project taking off soon seem to have brightened lately following the completion of the...
Their job is to ensure that social pressures do not build to the point where problems like militancy and terrorism become a national headache.
DAILY protests have continued in Turkiye since the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on March 19. While the...
How long can the state allow this unending cycle of violence in Balochistan to continue?
The ruling parties should avoid getting involved in another controversy around the ECP.
TALK about disjointed development. Pakistan is now producing high-speed train coaches for its low-speed tracks....
PAKISTAN’S economic growth has slowed in the second quarter of the ongoing fiscal year from a year ago as the...
TO say that the media fraternity’s worst fears are now coming true would be to suggest that there was a chance ...
WHILE the Trump administration may have no problem with Israel renewing its rampage in Gaza, it is playing ...
IN an encouraging development, the government has signalled openness to PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s ...
THE finalisation of a deal between Pakistan and the IMF on the first Extended Fund Facility programme review and a...
DESPITE daytime restrictions on heavy vehicles, Karachi continues to witness one horrific traffic accident after...
DRIVEN by rising temperatures linked to climate change, increasing drought events across Pakistan have affected tens...
CONSIDERING the generally poor state of Pak-Afghan relations, the recently concluded three-day visit of Pakistan’s...
WHEN Pakistan’s high-risk Twenty20 approach did not work, there was no fallback plan and they collapsed in a heap...
THE state is understandably keen on neutralising the threat posed by various militant and terrorist outfits, but it...
IMF’s decision to veto move to reduce retail power tariffs seems to be against interests of middle-class consumers.
WRETCHED social conditions add an extra layer of cruelty to ordinary lives. The UN’s migration agency says that...
AS the world observes World Tuberculosis Day, we confront the sombre fact that despite being both preventable and...
Waiting for outside help to arrive will only aggravate our climate challenges and not mitigate them.
THE latest cache of declassified documents from what are known as the ‘Kennedy files’ have not really impressed...
PAKISTAN’S tax system is extortionist, unpredictable and unsupportive of investment and economic growth. It...
ANOTHER day, another spat within the judiciary. It appears that there is still very little realisation within the...
A NEW era of censorship is upon us. The FIA’s arrest of journalist and founder of media agency Raftar, Farhan...
THESE are fraught times, but the government must still find it in its heart to be a little more accommodating....
World Water Day should remind country’s rulers that water crisis threatens the very survival of our future generations.
MUSLIMS in India have endured incessant scrutiny of their nationalism. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ...
THE Federal Shariat Court’s ruling that it is un-Islamic to deprive a woman of her right to inheritance is a...
IT has been a pattern. Ever since it returned to power in 2022, the ruling PML-N has allocated tens of billions from...
THE sudden closure of major universities in Balochistan, ostensibly due to ‘security concerns’, marks another...
THE slump in large-scale manufacturing amidst the adjustments the economy is forced to make in order to stay afloat...
INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent comments to an American podcaster regarding the Pakistan-India...
THE NFC Award has long been in need of an overhaul. The government’s proposal to bring down the weightage of...
WILL it count as an opportunity lost? Given the sharp escalation in militant violence in recent weeks, some had ...
TWO months after a ceasefire temporarily suspended their slaughter, the people of Gaza once again confronted...
GREED knows no bounds. But the avarice of those involved in the sugar business — from manufacturers to retailers...
WHEREVER the money goes, controversy follows. The PMLN-led federal government, which recently announced that it will...
WITH the security situation in Balochistan and KP rapidly deteriorating, Pakistan’s civil and military leadership...
MYSTERIOUS and unstoppable. It is these words that perhaps best describe the recent surge in traffic-related...
THE US retreat from global climate finance commitments could not have come at a worse time. Pakistan faces an...
IT is clear that in the midst of a fresh wave of terrorism, particularly after the Jaffar Express hijacking, the...
IT was a distressing spectacle, though a sadly predictable one. As the National Assembly took up for discussion the...
IT seems a little prod was all it took for Pakistan to finally ‘embrace the future’. The Pakistan Crypto Council...
Should prepare economy for durable growth by attracting foreign private investments to boost productivity and exports.
PAKISTAN’S children in prison have often been treated like adult criminals. The Sindh government’s programme to...
WITH far-right movements on the march across the world, it is no surprise that anti-Muslim bias is witnessing high...