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ONCE again, the ogre of terrorism is seeking the sacrifice of schoolgirls. On Wednesday, just days after the announcement of a four-year education...
IN recent years, Pakistan has made several attempts at introducing an overarching mechanism through which to check the strident criticism of the...
DESPITE the state of the economy, the IMF’s demand that the cash-strapped Shehbaz Sharif administration start taxing civil and military pensions...
THE old affliction of failed enforcement has rendered another law lifeless. Enacted over a decade ago, the Sindh Witness Protection Act, 2013, was a...
JUST two days after the president, while on a visit to Balochistan, discussed the need for a political dialogue to address the province’s problems,...
IN a promising albeit familiar declaration, the prime minister has announced a four-year “education emergency” to eradicate the blight of...
THE FIA has a new task at hand: cracking down on fraudulent work visas. This was prompted by the discovery of a Pakistani human smugglingnetwork in...
SUCCESSIVE governments have tried to address the problems of Balochistan — particularly the province’s precarious law and order situation — with...
A YEAR since the events of May 9, 2023, very little appears to have changed, at least from the political perspective. In fact, there seems to be even...
IT is usually best not to presume, but given recent developments, one may tentatively hope that the judiciary has finally woken up to the...
PLANS to bring Saudi investment to Pakistan have clearly been put on the fast track. Over the past month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has visited...
WE have plenty of smoke with fire. Citizens, particularly parents, caught in Pakistan’s grave drug problem are on edge. Despite frequent reports of...
IN an inspirational message from the base camp of Nepal’s Mount Makalu, Pakistani mountaineer Naila Kiani stressed on the need to educate every girl...
THE Shehbaz Sharif government is in a sort of Catch-22 situation regarding the alleged wheat import scandal. It is conducting an official inquiry into...
RAFAH, the last shelter for Gaza’s hapless people, is about to face the wrath of the Israeli war machine. There had long been talk of Tel Aviv...
IT appears that, despite years of wrangling over the issue, the country’s top legal minds remain unable to decide by themselves what criteria must...
KARACHI, with its long history of crime, is well-acquainted with the menace. For some time now, it has witnessed unbridled street crime, robberies,...
IN Pakistan, bias begins at birth for the girl child as discriminatory norms, orthodox attitudes and poverty impede progress. However, Unicef Pakistan...
PAKISTAN’S economic vitals might be showing some signs of improvement, but the country is not yet out of danger. For instance, for the last four...
THERE is some good news for the nation from the heavens above. On Friday, Pakistan managed to dispatch a lunar mission in the form of the iCube-Qamar...
OUT of nowhere, the government has launched a new cybercrime authority: the National Cyber Crimes Investigation Agency. This move to replace the...
THE story of illegal housing schemes in Punjab is the story of greed, corruption and plunder. Major players in these frequent scams are well-connected...
SINCE the start of hostilities on Oct 7, Israel has put in ceaseless efforts to depopulate Gaza, and make the Strip uninhabitable. While the death...
THE PTI claims to have “all the evidence” against what it asserts was a rigged election this February. The party has released a “white paper”...
THAT Karachi — one of the world’s largest megacities — does not have a mass transit system worth the name is no secret. No single party is...
AFTER this week’s proceedings in the so-called ‘meddling case’, it appears that the majority of judges comprising the superior judiciary have...
JOURNALISTS across the world are facing unprecedented threats — from legal and economic pressure to outright threats of violence — hindering their...
WITH frequently suspended freedoms, increasing violence and few to speak out for the oppressed, it is unlikely that the human rights situation in...
OVER the last few weeks, there have been several exchanges involving top officials and their Saudi counterparts. At the end of Ramazan, the prime...
THE FBR’s decision to block mobile phone connections of more than half a million individuals who did not file federal tax returns for the tax year...
FACED with high inflation and bleak economic prospects nationally, the workers of Pakistan have little to celebrate this May Day. However, the state...
THE year’s fourth polio drive has kicked off across Pakistan, with the aim to immunise more than 24m children under the age of five. This latest...
THE crackdown on farmers protesting in Lahore and several other cities against the government’s ‘flawed’ wheat procurement policy and delays in...
THE PML-N’s policy of ‘family first’ has once again triggered criticism. The party’s latest move in this direction has been to name Foreign...
ALIGNING its decision with the trend in developed economies, the State Bank has acted wisely by holding its key policy rate steady at 22pc. The bank...
IT is still early days, but there have been several small developments over the past week that, it is hoped, may add up to something bigger in the...
IT is a relief that Pakistan managed to salvage some pride. Pakistan had taken the lead, then fell behind before winning the final game, which helped...
COMPARED to the roughshod manner in which the caretaker set-up dealt with the issue, the elected government seems a lot more patient where the...
THE year 2023 is a sobering reminder of the tumultuous relationship Asia has with climate change and how this change appears to be gaining momentum...
AS we mark World Immunisation Week, it is a time to reflect on the importance of vaccines, especially for children, and more so in the backdrop of an...
IT has been a little over 200 days since Israel unleashed its monstrous war of annihilation in the Gaza Strip last October. In these six months, and...
AS we mark World Immunisation Week, it is a time to reflect on the importance of vaccines, especially for children, and more so in the backdrop of an...
NAWAZ Sharif is set to take up the reins of PML-N party president once again — seven long years after he was barred from holding the position...
BISMAH Maroof’s contribution to Pakistan cricket extends beyond the field. The 32-year old, Pakistan’s most-capped One-Day International women’s...
AN accountability court has barred former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife from criticising the establishment and the judiciary. This order,...
THE deplorable practice of enforced disappearances is an affront to due process and the rule of law. Pakistan has struggled for decades to root out...
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...