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IT has been two decades since the National Sports Policy was introduced but its implementation leaves much to be...
FOR nearly a decade, Saarc has lain dormant, a victim of India’s stubborn refusal to engage with Pakistan. The...
With frequency of calamitous weather events increasing, the country cannot afford to be in denial after every tragedy.
IT was an avoidable tragedy. Another residential building collapsed in Karachi’s Lyari neighbourhood on Friday,...
NEARLY four years after the Afghan Taliban marched into Kabul, Russia has become the first country to recognise the...
DEMOCRACY is noisy and may even get messy. Rowdy protests are a common feature of parliamentary proceedings....
SEVERAL acts of terrorist violence over the past couple of days illustrate the grave threat militant groups continue...
THE HRCP has sounded the alarm about the increasingly shrinking space in which it is allowed to function. In a...
THE PTI leadership seems to have finally managed to get its leaders in the same room and, for now at least, on the...
ALTHOUGH tens of thousands of people in Gaza have been slaughtered and starved by Israel, the UN has been unable to...
ALREADY left reeling by the abrupt, sweeping rollback of American development aid under President Donald Trump, the...
If space for reconciliation remains, both the government and PTI must seize it.
THE present Election Commission is at the centre of so many storms that it seems prudent to reconstitute it without...
SENIOR officials from Pakistan, China and Bangladesh met in the Chinese city of Kunming recently to test the waters...
WITH the monsoon season underway in Pakistan, the threat of another dengue outbreak hangs over us. The warning signs...
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif has assured the public that his government would never discourage Pakistan’s...
TIME has not been kind to the PTI and the party paints a sorry picture today. Despite putting up a brave front for...
It should be remembered that a recent UN report very clearly stated that Afghan Taliban continue their support for TTP.
SHOCKING research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has revealed that essential chemotherapy drugs for the...
THE Supreme Court recently issued a verdict advocating equal rights in a marriage. The verdict originated from an...
The country must deploy the best legal and diplomatic minds to defend its water rights.
WHILE there may have been pressure from external quarters to do otherwise, Pakistan is right in not joining the...
TRAGEDY has struck our scenic north once more. In Swat, at least 13 people drowned after being caught in a sudden...
THE Constitutional Bench’s most recent decision is an attempt to provide legal closure, but it may just engender...
PRECIOUS little has been done to reverse the sliding fortunes of our syncretic inheritance. While, historically,...
THOUGH India’s narrative linking Pakistan to the Pahalgam terrorist attack has largely failed to find any takers ...
PAKISTAN’S Rs17.6tr ‘austerity’ budget for FY26, passed by the National Assembly on Thursday, focuses ...
THE level of hysterical Islamophobia propagated through mainstream Western media and global social media by both...
THE findings of a landmark study in The Lancet offer a nuanced verdict on half a century of childhood immunisation....
There must be zero tolerance for hate speech both in the real and virtual worlds.
TO lessen tensions with the opposition, it is necessary for the government to refrain from taking any step that ...
A NARCOTICS crisis has long been brewing in Pakistan, whether or not we admit it. As illegal substances flood our...
And after a long-term ceasefire takes effect, those responsible in Tel Aviv for the crimes committed in the occupied territories must face justice.
A major high-rise project by Faisal Town has received two international awards for its design and innovation, highlighting a growing role in modern...
THE World Meteorological Organisation’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report lays bare the continent’s...
WITH the public’s attention on the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Middle East, the Judicial Commission of...
AFTER several days of dangerous escalation in the Middle East, matters seem to be cooling off. The US-Israeli...
THE government’s policy gymnastics following Pakistan’s unexpectedly rapid adoption of rooftop solar have ...
The bare minimum OIC can do is to take firm action against the butchery of Palestinian people and resist regime change.
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif appears relieved that the IMF did not turn down Pakistan’s request to exempt...
FOR students who put in countless hours of hard work for their secondary school exams — mainly to secure admission...
THE federal health minister’s assertion of a 99pc reduction in polio cases in Pakistan, while impressive on the...
If there is any state in the world that the international community must be concerned about harbouring weapons of mass destruction, it is Israel.
THE heartrending fate of people escaping conflict, deprivation and instability across the globe is among the...
Many citizens have expressed dismay and embarrassment over this symbolic capitulation to the US presidency.
IN the past, while most elected governments would at least publicly bristle at the mention of being partners in ...
OUR cities are once again staring down the very real prospect of waterlogged streets and stalled life with PMD’s...
THE Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court has determined that there is nothing wrong with Pakistan’s president...
Lawmakers should try and fix the broken tax system rather than advocating for new amnesties.
FINALLY, some clarity. After the confusion created over the applicable rate on the lowest income tax bracket due to...