Strange claim In all likelihood, Pakistan and US will continue to be ‘frenemies'. Updated 21 Dec, 2024 08:43am Email Your Name*Cancel
Strange claim In all likelihood, Pakistan and US will continue to be ‘frenemies'. Updated 21 Dec, 2024 08:43am Email Your Name*Cancel
Media strangulation Administration must decide whether it wishes to be remembered as an enabler or an executioner of press freedom. Updated 21 Dec, 2024 03:32pm
Media strangulation Administration must decide whether it wishes to be remembered as an enabler or an executioner of press freedom. Updated 21 Dec, 2024 03:32pm
Israeli rampage ALONG with the genocide in Gaza, Israel has embarked on a regional rampage, attacking Arab and Muslim states with... Published 21 Dec, 2024 07:13am
Israeli rampage ALONG with the genocide in Gaza, Israel has embarked on a regional rampage, attacking Arab and Muslim states with... Published 21 Dec, 2024 07:13am
Tax amendments Bureaucracy gimmicks have not produced results, will not do so in the future. Updated 20 Dec, 2024 09:05am
Tax amendments Bureaucracy gimmicks have not produced results, will not do so in the future. Updated 20 Dec, 2024 09:05am
Cricket breakthrough IT had been made clear to Pakistan that a Champions Trophy without India was not even a distant possibility, even if... Published 20 Dec, 2024 08:40am
Cricket breakthrough IT had been made clear to Pakistan that a Champions Trophy without India was not even a distant possibility, even if... Published 20 Dec, 2024 08:40am
Troubled waters LURCHING from one crisis to the next, the Pakistani state has been consistent in failing its vulnerable citizens.... Published 20 Dec, 2024 08:39am
Troubled waters LURCHING from one crisis to the next, the Pakistani state has been consistent in failing its vulnerable citizens.... Published 20 Dec, 2024 08:39am
Madressah oversight Bill should be reconsidered and Directorate General of Religious Education, formed to oversee seminaries, should not be rolled back. Updated 19 Dec, 2024 09:07am
Madressah oversight Bill should be reconsidered and Directorate General of Religious Education, formed to oversee seminaries, should not be rolled back. Updated 19 Dec, 2024 09:07am
Kurram’s misery The state must recognise that allowing such hardship to continue undermines its basic duty to protect citizens’ well-being. Updated 19 Dec, 2024 02:44pm
Kurram’s misery The state must recognise that allowing such hardship to continue undermines its basic duty to protect citizens’ well-being. Updated 19 Dec, 2024 02:44pm
Hiking gas rates IMPLEMENTATION of a new Ogra recommendation to increase the gas prices by an average 8.7pc or Rs142.45 per mmBtu in... Published 19 Dec, 2024 08:22am
Hiking gas rates IMPLEMENTATION of a new Ogra recommendation to increase the gas prices by an average 8.7pc or Rs142.45 per mmBtu in... Published 19 Dec, 2024 08:22am
Geopolitical games While Assad may be gone — and not many are mourning the end of his brutal rule — Syria’s future does not look promising. Updated 18 Dec, 2024 08:29am
Geopolitical games While Assad may be gone — and not many are mourning the end of his brutal rule — Syria’s future does not look promising. Updated 18 Dec, 2024 08:29am
Polio’s toll MONDAY’s attacks on polio workers in Karak and Bannu that martyred Constable Irfanullah and wounded two ... Published 18 Dec, 2024 07:33am
Polio’s toll MONDAY’s attacks on polio workers in Karak and Bannu that martyred Constable Irfanullah and wounded two ... Published 18 Dec, 2024 07:33am
Development expenditure PAKISTAN’S infrastructure development woes are wide and deep. The country must annually spend at least 10pc of its... Published 18 Dec, 2024 07:33am
Development expenditure PAKISTAN’S infrastructure development woes are wide and deep. The country must annually spend at least 10pc of its... Published 18 Dec, 2024 07:33am
Risky slope Inflation likely to see an upward trajectory once high base effect tapers off. Updated 17 Dec, 2024 08:11am
Risky slope Inflation likely to see an upward trajectory once high base effect tapers off. Updated 17 Dec, 2024 08:11am
Digital ID bill Without privacy safeguards, a centralised digital ID system could be misused for surveillance. Updated 17 Dec, 2024 01:27pm
Digital ID bill Without privacy safeguards, a centralised digital ID system could be misused for surveillance. Updated 17 Dec, 2024 01:27pm
Dangerous revisionism When hatemongers call for digging up every mosque to see what lies beneath, there is a darker agenda driving matters. Updated 17 Dec, 2024 07:59pm
Dangerous revisionism When hatemongers call for digging up every mosque to see what lies beneath, there is a darker agenda driving matters. Updated 17 Dec, 2024 07:59pm
Remembering APS Ten years later, the state must fully commit itself to implementing NAP if Pakistan is to be rid of terrorism and fanaticism. Updated 16 Dec, 2024 10:43am
Remembering APS Ten years later, the state must fully commit itself to implementing NAP if Pakistan is to be rid of terrorism and fanaticism. Updated 16 Dec, 2024 10:43am
Cricket momentum A WASHOUT at The Wanderers saw Pakistan avoid a series whitewash but they will go into the One-day International... Published 16 Dec, 2024 08:21am
Cricket momentum A WASHOUT at The Wanderers saw Pakistan avoid a series whitewash but they will go into the One-day International... Published 16 Dec, 2024 08:21am
Grievous trade THE UN’s Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2024 is a sobering account of how the commodification of humans... Published 16 Dec, 2024 08:21am
Grievous trade THE UN’s Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2024 is a sobering account of how the commodification of humans... Published 16 Dec, 2024 08:21am
Economic plan? So long as the government does not realise that it needs to put its own house in order, growth will remain anaemic and the world will be reluctant to help. Updated 15 Dec, 2024 08:59am
Economic plan? So long as the government does not realise that it needs to put its own house in order, growth will remain anaemic and the world will be reluctant to help. Updated 15 Dec, 2024 08:59am
Registration tussle MAULANA Fazlur Rehman appears to be having trouble digesting the fact that he was taken for a ride. The government,... Published 15 Dec, 2024 08:18am
Registration tussle MAULANA Fazlur Rehman appears to be having trouble digesting the fact that he was taken for a ride. The government,... Published 15 Dec, 2024 08:18am
Dangerous overreach THE latest wave of arrests and cases filed against journalists and social media users under Peca marks an alarming... Published 15 Dec, 2024 08:17am
Dangerous overreach THE latest wave of arrests and cases filed against journalists and social media users under Peca marks an alarming... Published 15 Dec, 2024 08:17am
Half measures The question remains: Were suspects' prolonged detention, subsequent trial, and punishments ever legal in eyes of the law? Updated 14 Dec, 2024 08:49am
Half measures The question remains: Were suspects' prolonged detention, subsequent trial, and punishments ever legal in eyes of the law? Updated 14 Dec, 2024 08:49am
Engaging with Kabul WHILE relations with the Afghan Taliban have been testy of late, mainly because of the feeling in Islamabad that the... Published 14 Dec, 2024 06:35am
Engaging with Kabul WHILE relations with the Afghan Taliban have been testy of late, mainly because of the feeling in Islamabad that the... Published 14 Dec, 2024 06:35am
Truant ministers LAWMAKERS from both the opposition and treasury benches have been up in arms about what they see as cabinet... Updated 14 Dec, 2024 08:34am
Truant ministers LAWMAKERS from both the opposition and treasury benches have been up in arms about what they see as cabinet... Updated 14 Dec, 2024 08:34am
A political resolution It seems that there has been some belated realisation that a power vacuum has been created at expense of civilian leadership. Updated 13 Dec, 2024 08:38am
A political resolution It seems that there has been some belated realisation that a power vacuum has been created at expense of civilian leadership. Updated 13 Dec, 2024 08:38am
High price increases FISCAL stabilisation prescribed by the IMF can be expensive — for the common people — in more ways than one. ... Published 13 Dec, 2024 07:16am
High price increases FISCAL stabilisation prescribed by the IMF can be expensive — for the common people — in more ways than one. ... Published 13 Dec, 2024 07:16am
Beyond HOTA IN a welcome demonstration of HOTA’s oversight role, kidney transplant services have been suspended at... Published 13 Dec, 2024 07:16am
Beyond HOTA IN a welcome demonstration of HOTA’s oversight role, kidney transplant services have been suspended at... Published 13 Dec, 2024 07:16am
General malfeasance Will Gen Faiz Hameed's trial prove to be a long overdue comeuppance or just another smokescreen? Updated 12 Dec, 2024 09:11am
General malfeasance Will Gen Faiz Hameed's trial prove to be a long overdue comeuppance or just another smokescreen? Updated 12 Dec, 2024 09:11am
Electricity rates THE government is renegotiating power purchase agreements with private power producers to slash their capacity... Published 12 Dec, 2024 07:21am
Electricity rates THE government is renegotiating power purchase agreements with private power producers to slash their capacity... Published 12 Dec, 2024 07:21am
Aggression in Syria TAKING advantage of the chaos in post-Assad Syria, Israel has proceeded to grab more of the Arab state’s land,... Published 12 Dec, 2024 07:19am
Aggression in Syria TAKING advantage of the chaos in post-Assad Syria, Israel has proceeded to grab more of the Arab state’s land,... Published 12 Dec, 2024 07:19am
Madressah politics The curriculum taught must be free of hate and prejudice, while madressah students need to be taught life skills to later contribute to economy. Updated 11 Dec, 2024 08:38am
Madressah politics The curriculum taught must be free of hate and prejudice, while madressah students need to be taught life skills to later contribute to economy. Updated 11 Dec, 2024 08:38am
Targeting travellers THE country’s top tax authority seems to have run out of good ideas. According to news reports, the Federal Board... Published 11 Dec, 2024 07:29am
Targeting travellers THE country’s top tax authority seems to have run out of good ideas. According to news reports, the Federal Board... Published 11 Dec, 2024 07:29am
Grieving elephants FOR most, the news will perhaps not even register. Another elephant has died in captivity in Pakistan. The death is... Published 11 Dec, 2024 07:29am
Grieving elephants FOR most, the news will perhaps not even register. Another elephant has died in captivity in Pakistan. The death is... Published 11 Dec, 2024 07:29am
Syria’s future Today, HTS — a ‘reformed’ radical outfit once associated with Al Qaeda — is in a position to be the leading power broker in Syria. Updated 10 Dec, 2024 08:46am
Syria’s future Today, HTS — a ‘reformed’ radical outfit once associated with Al Qaeda — is in a position to be the leading power broker in Syria. Updated 10 Dec, 2024 08:46am
Rights in peril IN Pakistan’s fraught landscape of human rights infringements, misery hangs in the air. What makes this year’s... Published 10 Dec, 2024 07:52am
Rights in peril IN Pakistan’s fraught landscape of human rights infringements, misery hangs in the air. What makes this year’s... Published 10 Dec, 2024 07:52am
