Editorial
Under Peca amendments, regime has legal cover to bully and harass working journalists for taking adversarial positions.
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PAKISTAN’S economic growth has slowed in the second quarter of the ongoing fiscal year from a year ago as the...
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TALK about disjointed development. Pakistan is now producing high-speed train coaches for its low-speed tracks....
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The hard-won macroeconomic stability is only a short distance away from a deeper crisis.
Updated 2 days ago
IN an encouraging development, the government has signalled openness to PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s ...
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WHILE the Trump administration may have no problem with Israel renewing its rampage in Gaza, it is playing ...
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Islamabad should continue to emphasise that presence of terrorists on Afghan soil stands in the way of normal commercial ties.
Updated 26 Mar, 2025 08:57am
DESPITE daytime restrictions on heavy vehicles, Karachi continues to witness one horrific traffic accident after...
Published 26 Mar, 2025 07:15am
DRIVEN by rising temperatures linked to climate change, increasing drought events across Pakistan have affected tens...
Published 26 Mar, 2025 07:15am
IMF’s decision to veto move to reduce retail power tariffs seems to be against interests of middle-class consumers.
Updated 25 Mar, 2025 08:45am
State must not push ordinary citizens away with its excesses when dealing with Balochistan.
Updated 25 Mar, 2025 01:11pm
WHEN Pakistan’s high-risk Twenty20 approach did not work, there was no fallback plan and they collapsed in a heap...
Published 25 Mar, 2025 07:54am
Waiting for outside help to arrive will only aggravate our climate challenges and not mitigate them.
Updated 24 Mar, 2025 09:16am
WRETCHED social conditions add an extra layer of cruelty to ordinary lives. The UN’s migration agency says that...
Published 24 Mar, 2025 07:16am
AS the world observes World Tuberculosis Day, we confront the sombre fact that despite being both preventable and...
Published 24 Mar, 2025 07:16am
Public perceptions of the institution’s independence and neutrality have taken a hit due to bitter, public spats between senior judges.
Updated 23 Mar, 2025 08:41am
PAKISTAN’S tax system is extortionist, unpredictable and unsupportive of investment and economic growth. It...
Published 23 Mar, 2025 08:18am
THE latest cache of declassified documents from what are known as the ‘Kennedy files’ have not really impressed...
Published 23 Mar, 2025 08:17am
THESE are fraught times, but the government must still find it in its heart to be a little more accommodating....
Published 22 Mar, 2025 06:48am
World Water Day should remind country’s rulers that water crisis threatens the very survival of our future generations.
Updated 22 Mar, 2025 08:35am