It is a question many people are asking. The economy is growing at over five percent a year, infrastructure is getting built faster than you can say China-Pakistan Economic...
The United States celebrated Columbus Day on October 9 (the second Monday of this month). Heaping eulogies on the...
In recent days, a number of commentators have, while expressing grave concerns about the economy, suggested that a financial emergency should be imposed to deal with the present...
Pakistan’s strategic imperatives are: it must find peace in Afghanistan; it must save CPEC and make it into a far more profitable venture; and eliminate Daesh as a...
Gilgit-Baltistan is bounded in the north by the Wakhan corridor (Afghanistan) and the Xinjiang region of China, on the south and south-east by Indian-Occupied Kashmir and on the...
Hurricanes develop in the Atlantic Ocean and move across the cold water towards the warmer sea of the Caribbean. All that energy journeys, picking up steam, driving forward with...
In Pakistan more than 75 percent of women face different types of harassment on a daily basis. Harassment has become a serious issue which must be dealt with in an efficient manner. The criminal...
It was heartrending to read that a private security guard committed suicide in Rawalpindi by hanging himself from a rope tied to the ceiling. The 60-year-old man took his life at the house where he...
This refers to the article, ‘Economic security’ (Oct 15), by Dr Farrukh Saleem. The article needs to be read by everyone especially by those who are at the helm of affairs. The writer...
During service in PIA, credit card schemes and personal bank loans were made so easy that paying back in time in instalments was no problem and all went well. Many employees applied for credit card...
Criminals love spreading a wave of fear among people. This helps them attacking the already soft target. The same pattern is now being implemented by the so-called knifeman who has been attacking...
This is to address the government’s negligence towards the establishment of a national emergency number when it should have been top priority of the authorities. Considering the fact that each...
The Senate Standing Committee on Interior has rejected an amendment proposed in the Child Marriage Restraint Act to increase the minimum age of marriage of a girl child from sixteen to eighteen...
The number of street children is increasing at an accelerated rate. There is not a single day when commuters do not see homeless and hungry children begging for food. It seems that now we have...
The annual Global Hunger Index, conducted by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute, finds the problem in Pakistan is as bad as ever. The country was ranked...
One of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the last decade struck Somalia’s capital Mogadishu this past Saturday. At least 300 people were killed while hundreds of others were...
