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THE statistics are sobering. Despite frantic efforts to contain its spread, the tally of polio cases this year has...
THE Pakistan Kissan Ittehad has painted an alarming picture of Pakistan’s agricultural sector, highlighting...
The recognition of Palestine is a right owed to a people who have endured generations of occupation, blockade and statelessness.
BRITISH politician Jeremy Corbyn’s announcement of a new political party marks a critical juncture in British...
CLIMATE change can no longer be viewed merely as an environmental problem; it is now driving up poverty, a new World...
EVEN though questions about the independence of the present judiciary continue to linger, Chief Justice Yahya...
WOMEN are incidental for jirgas. The latest victim was a newly-wed 19-year-old who was murdered for ‘honour’ in...
THE state seems to be concerned about the growing influence of extremists and terrorist outfits on social media...
THE meeting between Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sparked cautious optimism...
IT is a worrying development. The Islamabad High Court has decided to put on hold an earlier ruling asking the...
THE S&P decision to upgrade Pakistan’s long-term sovereign credit rating from ‘CCC ’ to ‘B-’ with a...
IN restive KP, it seems nobody is on the same page. A tribal jirga representing the erstwhile Fata region and backed...
The horror unfolding in Gaza is a collapse of the very global norms the UN was founded to uphold.
IT is always encouraging to see the Supreme Court act with moral clarity on issues that often go unaddressed. On...
The region risks becoming another flashpoint unless the network of militants and gangs is completely dismantled.
APPARENTLY, Pakistan were weighed down by the promise they had made. Salman Ali Agha’s men kept only half of it ...
A TOP official of the Privatisation Commission has informed a parliamentary panel that the government plans to ...
Prosecuting them under standard criminal laws would have sufficed.
THE recent passage by the Senate of the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill 2024, which seeks to increase penalties for...
THE alarm bells are getting louder. Even the country’s biggest sporting product is facing the impact of climate...
Instead of shielding Israel with euphemisms, the West must demand an immediate halt to this bloodshed.
ALTHOUGH the government managed to exploit the power struggle between rival factions in the Federation of Pakistan...
No life should be lost to toxic control; women are not the family’s social currency.
THERE was a lot to unpack as KP’s provincial assembly finally returned its representatives to the Senate on ...
IT is a welcome step, albeit one that feels insufficient in its scope. The Senate last week passed a bill to abolish...
HERITAGE sites are pathways to the past that vitalise the present and provide vision for the future. While Karachi...
THE utter devastation witnessed across Pakistan this monsoon season is, tragically, neither new nor unexpected....
HAVING begun Mike Hesson’s era as head coach with a convincing home Twenty20 series victory against Bangladesh,...
THE state has a major problem on its hands. The people of KP are repeatedly making it clear that they have no ...
PAKISTAN’S current account posted a full-year surplus of $2.1bn — about 0.5pc of GDP — in FY25, marking the...
PAKISTAN’s war on drug trafficking has been ongoing for several years. But the country remains awash in the ...
THE Gaza siege has now crossed 650 days and the situation continues to take one ugly turn after another. True, even...
MOTHER Nature is once more in an unforgiving mood. A heavy monsoon spell on Thursday claimed over 60 lives and left...
FOR all the progress made in Pakistan towards the inclusion of women across the sociopolitical divide, comprehensive...
THE unrest in Balochistan is increasingly taking on an ugly and dangerous colour, with repeated, indiscriminate...
The lifting of the ban by the UK will lead to several welcome developments.
PAKISTAN has recorded its highest-ever coverage of the DTP vaccine — protecting children against diphtheria,...
IT is a weighty issue, and one which many would not touch with a barge pole, primarily out of concern for...
WE live in a world where interactions between the state and citizens, and economic performance, are being redefined...
THE rollout of a new interactive tax return form should ease filing by simplifying the procedure, addressing a...
WHAT’S in a name? The civilian paramilitary force hitherto known as the Frontier Constabulary will continue to...
A THIRD of our people were directly impacted by the 2022 floods. Nearly 1,500 lives were lost, over $30bn just...
MORALITY is a woman’s burden to bear, and the chilling upsurge in gender-based crimes is a reminder of how...
AND, just like that, the PTI’s ill-timed ‘Second Pakistan Movement’ seems to have been put to rest. The...
THOUGH IMF Resident Representative for Pakistan Mahir Binici’s words of commendation for the country’s “strong...
PAKISTAN’s journalists are no strangers to living dangerously. The Freedom Network’s new report, Journalism in...
PAKISTAN is running out of time — and space. Our population, now over 240m, continues to grow at nearly 2pc a ...
THE call for a nationwide strike on July 19 by leading trade associations against tax enforcement and compliance...
THE US’ move to sanction Francesca Albanese, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied...
THE government’s plan to import 350,000 tonnes of sugar, months after allowing the export of more than twice that...