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THE figure is staggering. According to the annual report of Sweden-based think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, global military...
THE petitioners are quite helpless. Yet again, they are being expected to wait while the bench supposed to hear appeals against an earlier Supreme...
WITH the country confronting one of its gravest economic crises, it is time for the government and business community to sit together and find a way...
WHILE most Western governments have either been gladly facilitating Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, or meekly rebuking Tel Aviv for it, many people...
THE Supreme Court recently delivered a judgement championing the rights of women within a marriage. The ruling stemmed from a case where a divorced...
TECHNOLOGY divides us. According to a new UNDP report on Pakistan, titled Doing Digital for Development — Access, Adopt, Anticipate, Accelerate,...
WHEAT prices in Punjab have plummeted far below the minimum support price owing to a bumper harvest, reckless imports, large carryover stocks being...
PAKISTAN’S democracy seems adrift, and no one understands this better than our politicians. The system has gone into stasis, with no breakthrough...
THE official visit by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, which ends today, has been marked by mutual praise, and promises to improve ties, particularly...
YET another animal — a lioness — is critically ill at the Karachi Zoo. The feline, emaciated and barely able to move, is suffering due to old age,...
FINANCE Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s reaffirmation that the process of disinvestment of the loss-making national carrier will be concluded by the...
WHILE it is too early to deduce a definitive political trend from the provisional results of Sunday’s 21 by-polls held so soon after the Feb 8...
THE US has done it again. While officially insisting it is committed to a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, it rejected a...
IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raisi, who begins his three-day trip to Pakistan today, will be visiting the country during interesting times. While...
FINANCE Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb says that the economy has the potential to grow 10 times its size to $3tr for Pakistan to become a...
LEAKS from the Faizabad commission report have opened a can of worms about an event that gripped the nation some seven years ago, but one that can...
THIS past week marked the beginning of the 100-day countdown to the Paris Olympics, with the symbolic torch-lighting ceremony. The Olympic torch will...
THIS is a historic opportunity for the judiciary to define its institutional boundaries. It must not be squandered. With the Supreme Court’s next...
INDIA’S mammoth multi-stage elections have begun and the popular issues gripping the voters this time are unemployment, inflation and related...
THE rooftop of Vaqar Zakaria’s home in Islamabad is strewn with photovoltaic panels that he says have lowered his electricity bill to virtually...
IS urban terrorism returning to Karachi? Yesterday’s deplorable suicide bombing attack on a van carrying five Japanese nationals in the city’s...
PRESIDENT Asif Ali Zardari seems to have managed to hit all the right notes in his address to the joint sitting of parliament this Thursday....
THE Iran-Israel shadow war has very much come out into the open. Tel Aviv had been targeting Tehran’s assets for over a decade, particularly in...
AFTER several rain-related deaths in KP in recent days, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority has sprung into action to minimise the chances of...
UNLESS the state is honest about the mistakes its functionaries have made, we will be doomed to repeat our follies. And when these mistakes concern...
AS has become its modus operandi, the state is using smoke and mirrors to try to justify its decision to ban X, formerly Twitter. After weeks of...
OVER the weekend, the world witnessed an intense spectacle when Iran launched its drone-and-missile barrage against Israel in response to Tel Aviv’s...
THE sheer scale of the crisis is staggering. A new WHO report flags Pakistan as the country with the highest number of hepatitis C cases in the world...
THE next few years are likely to see Pakistan trapped in low-growth mode. International lenders maintain that economic growth in the country will...
PRIME MINISTER Shehbaz Sharif’s recent directive to the energy sector to curtail Pakistan’s staggering $27bn oil import bill through robust...
THE Supreme Court-sanctioned inquiry into the infamous Faizabad dharna of 2017 has turned out to be a damp squib. A three-member commission tasked...
AFTER a two-day stay, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, accompanied by a delegation including other ministers, wrapped up on Tuesday what...
NO matter how painful, a larger, medium-term IMF bailout, with complementary financial support from ‘friendly’ countries, is imperative for...
LIKE many other state-owned enterprises in the country, Pakistan Railways is unable to deliver, while haemorrhaging public funds by the billions....
PAKISTAN has once again been caught off-guard by the devastating impact of unseasonal and intense rains across its provinces, with dozens of lives...
IT appears that we are bent upon taking the majoritarian path. Thus, the promise of respect and equality for the white in the flag is not being kept....
AFTER the customary Ramazan interlude, political activity has resumed as usual. A ‘grand’ opposition alliance has emerged, comprising several...
THE Middle East, indeed, the entire international community, was on tenterhooks after Israel struck the consular section of Iran’s embassy in...
FOR those embarking on road and boat journeys, the probability of fatal accidents has seen a steady rise. The recent spate of mishaps should serve as...
THE recent discord in Bahawalnagar offers a chance to reflect on the sanctity of the law and its enforcement across all ranks of our security...
THERE have been numerous incidents in Pakistan’s history where innocent people have been singled out and murdered on the basis of their ethnic or...
WE either don’t see them or don’t want to see them — not even when they are actively trying to get our attention. In fact, we have become so...
THE Senate chairman and deputy chairman were elected unopposed, and 41 new senators were sworn in on Tuesday, bringing to a close the reconfiguration...
THE attack on Chinese engineers in Bisham recently was a grim reminder of the complexities the state faces in ensuring the safety of foreigners. The...
CONSIDERING the decades-old ties between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, it is not surprising that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chose to visit the kingdom...
PAKISTANIS are large-hearted people who empty their pockets at the slightest hint of another’s need. The Stanford Social Innovative Review reported...
THE allegations of corruption and violation of rules in the sale of Lahore’s Walton airport land by the Civil Aviation Authority to the Punjab...
PERHAPS rankled by the daily flood of grisly news — murders, armed robberies, muggings and kidnappings — and panic among the public, the PPP and...
A SENSE of foreboding prevails over the Middle East, as regional states in particular, and the international community overall, await Iran’s...
IN recent years, Pakistan’s fiscal situation has deteriorated significantly due to persistently low tax revenue collection and burgeoning public...