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THE menace of extortion has re-emerged in Karachi, with the megacity’s business community saying there has been an...
TWO decades after the 2005 earthquake that killed more than 80,000 people, Pakistan’s leaders have offered solemn...
THE long lull on the political front may have just been the build-up to a fresh storm. About a week after KP Chief...
MURDER for ‘honour’, executed by systems meant for women’s safety, is gender-based violence at its most ...
THE alliance between the PML-N and PPP is in disarray. What began as a public spat over flood relief efforts in...
TWO years after the Hamas attacks targeting Israel created shockwaves that rattled the Middle East, representatives...
THE usual news stories coming out of Balochistan centre around militancy and marginalisation. Yet every so often, it...
IN the run-up to the electoral battle in Bihar, yet another calculated eruption of communal tensions and divisive...
UNSUSPECTING electricity consumers have once again been forced to pay an additional amount — Rs215m — not ...
EACH October, breast cancer awareness returns to the spotlight, with campaigns, charity drives, and public messages...
COMPANIES often have ‘their own reasons’ to exit a market. Yet when a consumer products group like Procter &...
India's rulers are intent on sabre-rattling to cover up their inadequacies.
THE shadow cast by the Commonwealth Observer Group’s final report on the last general election has loomed large...
BY slashing its contribution to its employees’ pension benefits to 12pc of their pensionable pay from the 20pc it had initially
Unless Palestinians are granted the means to build a viable state, violence will recur.
THE state has faltered on its promise of ensuring justice for the victims of the Jaranwala incident of 2023, when...
FOR the past several days, Azad Kashmir has witnessed deadly protests, as life in the region remains paralysed. At...
PAKISTAN’S textile exports are no longer flailing; they are collapsing in plain sight. The inevitable fallout of...
THE interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla by Israel in international waters off Gaza has turned into a ...
THE statistics related to the frequency of militant attacks in Pakistan released by two local think tanks are cause...
IT is a trend that one associates with authoritarian regimes, which crush protest and cannot tolerate even peaceful...
YET another ugly episode of intolerance has been recorded in Sialkot, where a mob attacked members of the Ahmadi...
THE escalation in the ongoing spat between coalition allies, the PML-N and PPP, over Punjab’s controversial canal...
There is no mention of clear roadmap towards two-state solution, only vague language about a “credible pathway”.
WORLD Heart Day has come and gone, but the warnings sounded by medical experts should echo far beyond a single date....
ANOTHER day, another reminder of the fault lines that make it difficult to ensure durable peace in the country. On...
EVEN though American President Donald Trump believes that his grand 20-point Gaza plan will bring ‘eternal’ ...
THE objections of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association to the government’s plan of boosting power generation...
THE fact that four of Afghanistan’s neighbours have spoken unanimously against Afghan soil being used by militants...
The pettiness is particularly regrettable given cricket’s history in the region.
FORMER chief justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud has made an admission of communal bias in his reading of history. He...
NATURAL disasters demand unity, not point-scoring. And yet, instead of sandbags, Pakistan’s coalition has reached...
THE judiciary, once regarded as a source of clarity in times of political and institutional uncertainty, now appears...
THE government’s decision to scrap the column requiring tax filers to disclose the estimated fair market value of...
FOR the most part, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif hit all the right notes when he addressed the UN General Assembly ...
ON Sept 28, citizens and journalists across the globe mark World News Day, an occasion to remind ourselves why...
IT was probably the type of victory that was required — a throwback to the old style that had become the hallmark...
THE State Bank’s reported step to slow down its dollar purchases from the interbank market aims at refuelling...
COMPARED to the coldness of the Biden administration towards Pakistan, bilateral relations under Donald Trump’s...
KARACHI’S transport woes are well-documented. Pakistan’s biggest city and economic engine has no integrated...
PAKISTAN’S rollout of the world’s first cancer-prevention vaccine has been sobering. A 12-day campaign, ending...
Problem lies in a consumption-driven growth model, which has failed to deliver resilience, jobs or equitable progress.
IT is disheartening to see how inconsequential some lives are to society. This Monday, four Lahore labourers died...
THE Punjab government has announced a generous-sounding flood relief package: Rs1m for a destroyed house, Rs500,000...
It should be shocking that the American leader should turn MAGA talking points critical of "globalist elite" into key arguments of his UN address.
SIDRA Amin had been accumulating runs throughout the Women’s One-day International series against South Africa. In...
THE FBR’s admission that the Rs3.6tr sales tax gap — only slightly less than the last fiscal year’s collection...
THE tragic loss of civilian lives in explosions in KP’s Tirah valley highlights the need for greater transparency...
PAKISTAN showed some improvement but not enough to change the result for Salman Ali Agha’s men. This time, a week...
IT may have come 37 years too late — the Palestinians declared independence in 1988 — but the recognition of the...