This photograph taken on January 31, 2024 shows Saveera Parkash (front C), a Hindu minority candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for provincial assembly, greeting mufti Fazal Ghafoor (R), candidate of the Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) party, during her election campaign rally in the Buner district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. — AFP
This photograph taken on January 31, 2024 shows Saveera Parkash (front C), a Hindu minority candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for provincial assembly, greeting mufti Fazal Ghafoor (R), candidate of the Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) party, during her election campaign rally in the Buner district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. — AFP

This photograph taken on Jan 31, 2024 shows Saveera Parkash (4R), a Hindu minority candidate of the PPP for provincial assembly, speaking to a shopkeeper during an election campaign rally in KP’s Buner district. — AFP
This photograph taken on Jan 31, 2024 shows Saveera Parkash (4R), a Hindu minority candidate of the PPP for provincial assembly, speaking to a shopkeeper during an election campaign rally in KP’s Buner district. — AFP

This photograph taken on Jan 31, 2024 shows Saveera Parkash (3L), a Hindu minority candidate of the PPP for provincial assembly, speaking with her party workers at a party office in KP’s Buner district. — AFP
This photograph taken on Jan 31, 2024 shows Saveera Parkash (3L), a Hindu minority candidate of the PPP for provincial assembly, speaking with her party workers at a party office in KP’s Buner district. — AFP

This photograph taken on Jan 31, 2024 shows election posters for Saveera Parkash, a Hindu minority candidate of the PPP for provincial assembly, displayed at a party office in KP’s Buner district. — AFP
This photograph taken on Jan 31, 2024 shows election posters for Saveera Parkash, a Hindu minority candidate of the PPP for provincial assembly, displayed at a party office in KP’s Buner district. — AFP

Opinion

Editorial

Military convictions
Updated 22 Dec, 2024

Military convictions

Pakistan’s democracy, still finding its feet, cannot afford such compromises on core democratic values.
Need for talks
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Need for talks

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Vulnerable vaccinators
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Vulnerable vaccinators

THE campaign to eradicate polio from Pakistan cannot succeed unless the safety of vaccinators and security personnel...
Strange claim
Updated 21 Dec, 2024

Strange claim

In all likelihood, Pakistan and US will continue to be ‘frenemies'.
Media strangulation
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Media strangulation

Administration must decide whether it wishes to be remembered as an enabler or an executioner of press freedom.
Israeli rampage
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Israeli rampage

ALONG with the genocide in Gaza, Israel has embarked on a regional rampage, attacking Arab and Muslim states with...