Perhaps Western ‘statesmen’ may moderate their policies if a significant percentage of voters punish them at the ballot box.
Updated 28 Apr, 2024 09:22am
Even deadly mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue and malaria have vaccines, but they are virtually unheard of in Pakistan.
Updated 28 Apr, 2024 09:22am
With Nawaz Sharif as PML-N president, will we see more grievances being aired?
Updated 28 Apr, 2024 09:22am
As the past decades have shown, the country has not been made more secure by ‘disappearing’ people suspected of wrongdoing.
Updated 27 Apr, 2024 10:33am
AN accountability court has barred former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife from criticising the establishment...
Published 27 Apr, 2024 06:30am
BISMAH Maroof’s contribution to Pakistan cricket extends beyond the field. The 32-year old, Pakistan’s...
Published 27 Apr, 2024 06:30am
There is no doubt that these issues are impeding a positive business clime, which is required to boost private investment and economic growth.
Updated 26 Apr, 2024 09:11am
THE petitioners are quite helpless. Yet again, they are being expected to wait while the bench supposed to hear...
Published 26 Apr, 2024 06:55am
THE figure is staggering. According to the annual report of Sweden-based think tank Stockholm International Peace...
Published 26 Apr, 2024 06:55am
Democratising digital development will catalyse a rapid, if not immediate, improvement in human development indicators for the underserved segments of the Pakistani citizenry.
Updated 25 Apr, 2024 09:25am
THE Supreme Court recently delivered a judgement championing the rights of women within a marriage. The ruling...
Published 25 Apr, 2024 08:30am
WHILE most Western governments have either been gladly facilitating Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, or meekly...
Published 25 Apr, 2024 08:30am
Tomorrow, if ties between Washington and Beijing nosedive, and the US asks Pakistan to reconsider CPEC, will we comply?
Updated 24 Apr, 2024 09:18am
PAKISTAN’S democracy seems adrift, and no one understands this better than our politicians. The system has gone...
Published 24 Apr, 2024 08:13am
WHEAT prices in Punjab have plummeted far below the minimum support price owing to a bumper harvest, reckless...
Published 24 Apr, 2024 08:13am
Unless the culture of violence and rigging is rooted out, the credibility of the electoral process in Pakistan will continue to remain under a cloud.
Updated 23 Apr, 2024 09:54am
FINANCE Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s reaffirmation that the process of disinvestment of the loss-making national...
Published 23 Apr, 2024 08:39am
YET another animal — a lioness — is critically ill at the Karachi Zoo. The feline, emaciated and barely able to...
Published 23 Apr, 2024 08:38am
The problem with us is that our ruling elite is still trying to find a way around the tough reforms that will hit their privileges.
Updated 22 Apr, 2024 08:56am
IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raisi, who begins his three-day trip to Pakistan today, will be visiting the country ...
Published 22 Apr, 2024 07:19am