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Gianni Infantino built his FIFA presidency on the promise of a clean break from the corruption years of Sepp Blatter. That promise has not survived...
Children contracting HIV while receiving treatment at a public hospital is a deeply disturbing development that cannot be allowed to pass as another...
As Pakistan turns 79 today, the nation reiterates its resolve to live up to the ideals of its founding fathers and build a welfare nation-state....
The consequences of a worsening economy and a gradually deteriorating country are not merely fiscal. When in conversation about how Pakistan's...
The government is growing increasingly concerned about the state of the economy due to the impact of the US-Iran war and the stress it is placing on...
Judicial relief to former Prime Minister Imran Khan is overdue. The government has unnecessarily transgressed by keeping the PTI founder in solitary...
The former strongman of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, stands condemned as he was sentenced to death in absentia. The Alawite dynasty scion who ruled Syria...
There is something deeply troubling about a development programme designed to help some of Balochistan's poorest flood victims becoming the...
A disconcerting amount of packaged kitchen staples fail to meet national quality standards. About 48% of all ghee samples analysed by the Ministry of...
The death of Mir Raza, the owner of a Karachi-based dessert chain, has now taken a new turn. A kidnapping case that briefly drifted toward a theory of...
Pakistan continues to receive praise from the international community for emerging as a central intermediary in the US-Iran war. Its diplomacy and...
Benjamin Netanyahu is undeniably a troublemaker who cannot be relied upon to make peace. He stands accused of war crimes in Gaza - where the ICJ ruled...
The death of a child is one of the greatest tragedies a nation can bear. But if that death were preventable, it asks pointed questions and demands...
US President Donald Trump signed two new executive orders in yet another attempt to feed his obsession with ending birthright citizenship. This comes...
The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement testifies to the fact that Pakistan has emerged as a net-security provider in the region. It is a historic...
The tripartite defence agreement signed in Makkah between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye is epoch-making in essence. It is premised on the...
HIV outbreaks in hospitals are almost always the result of sheer medical negligence and when such negligence is exercised against children - one of...
At least 1,914 cases of child abuse were reported across the country during the first six months of 2026 alone, a staggering number that should be...
After three long years, the Pakistan cricket team finally outplayed an opponent in an away test match. The run of eight tests without a win began...
Pakistan's struggle against terrorism has often been narrated through the lens of military operations, and rightly so. The Pakistan Army has...
The incarceration of Imran Khan, in defiance of the jail manual, is now becoming a source of irritation and embarrassment. The former PM's sons,...
No woman should ever have to fear the very institution entrusted with protecting her. Yet when the alleged perpetrator is a police officer and the...
UN rights experts are the latest group to sound the alarm over India's audacious campaign to assassinate prominent dissidents abroad. In a...
The PML-N is poised to form its government in AJK as the state awaits the third and final leg of polling on August 10. Following the first two phases...
Seventeen dead, more than twenty wounded, an entire district placed under emergency - this is the arithmetic of Sunday's suicide bombing outside...
The MQM-P is in disarray as recent infighting exposes its deep fault lines. Once the heartthrob of Karachiites for defending the city's rights,...
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, most of Pakistan has experienced either near normal or below normal rainfall in the month of...
No one should die of rabies in 2026. It is among the deadliest diseases known to medicine, yet it is also among the most preventable. That Sindh has...
Being on the roads of Pakistan - as a driver, rider or pedestrian - can be a fatal gamble. Punjab alone tells the story in numbers: Rescue 1122...
Pakistan is facing a profound security crisis as militant violence hit a sharp peak in July 2026. During this deadliest month, over 112 security...
The recent protest by over 300 sanitation workers in Rawalpindi is a damning indictment of how Pakistan treats the men and women whose blood, sweat...
The idea that there are people dying in Pakistan because they lack access to air-conditioning seems like a convoluted, tone-deaf take by a...
The number of children orphaned by the Israeli onslaught has crossed 60,000, and there is no sign that the Zionist government can be shamed into...
For Pakistan's coal miners, the greatest danger has never been the darkness beneath the earth but the indifference above it. Negligence this time...
The reignition of tensions in the Middle East is worrying planners in the Ministry of Finance, who are now accepting that inflation is going to be a...
The contention that the present system is not delivering is not new. It has been debated for decades, as we experimented with democracy,...
Pakistan's men's football team will step onto unfamiliar ground later this year when it competes in the inaugural FIFA ASEAN Cup in...
Karachi has learnt to live with violence. It knows what it means to live under the shadow of extortion rackets and organised criminal syndicates. That...
Pakistan threw its weight behind diplomacy as it vowed to bring the arch-foes, the US and Iran, back to the table. The Foreign Office on Thursday...
After a long hiatus, the PTI has apparently decided to flex its muscles and kickstart a mass-contact campaign. Its decision to stage a public rally on...
Pakistan is in the grip of a hepatitis crisis of staggering proportions. With an estimated 12 to 15 million people infected with hepatitis B or C, the...
Under the Punjab Vagrancy (Amendment) Act 2025, begging was made a non-bailable offence in the province last year, with 'ringleaders' facing...
HIV in Sindh is more widespread than initially believed: this is the inescapable conclusion one has to draw from the latest infections uncovered at...
Pakistan is trapped in an abusive relationship with the monsoon season, as the same rains that are crucial for farmers are death-bringers for people...
Marred by protests, the first phase of the AJK Legislative Assembly elections has ended with a PML-N victory in the Mirpur division. The PML-N...
This year, the Sindh government has been making impressive strides in education by introducing reliable, transparent systems through widespread...
For the first time since 2016, Pakistan has regained a 'B' sovereign credit rating from S&P Global Ratings. The upgrade from our...
A ruling party built on a majority of over 300 seats has just discovered that street numbers can outweigh parliamentary ones. Dharmendra...
Pakistan's power sector has long been trapped in a vicious cycle of inefficiencies and mounting circular debt. Consumers have repeatedly been...
OpenAI's recent admission that its AI models went rogue, broke out of its test environment and hacked another AI company's systems seemed to...