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
THE US has done it again. While officially insisting it is committed to a peaceful resolution to the...
Published 22 Apr, 2024 07:19am
Independent accounts and spot reports are at variance with Modi-friendly TV anchors and they do not see an easy victory for the Indian premier.
Updated 21 Apr, 2024 09:16am
THIS is a historic opportunity for the judiciary to define its institutional boundaries. It must not be squandered....
Published 21 Apr, 2024 07:09am
THIS past week marked the beginning of the 100-day countdown to the Paris Olympics, with the symbolic torch-lighting...
Published 21 Apr, 2024 07:09am
True de-escalation means Israel must start behaving like a normal state, not a rogue nation that threatens the entire region.
Updated 20 Apr, 2024 09:23am
PRESIDENT Asif Ali Zardari seems to have managed to hit all the right notes in his address to the joint sitting of...
Published 20 Apr, 2024 06:10am