The writer is an Islamabad-based columnist.There’s a sense of deja vu when one looks at the growing discontent with the PTI government, which was inaugurated barely two years...
The global economy is collapsing. When the pandemic began, experts at the International Monetary Fund predicted that we would see the worst economic downturn since the Great...
With its powerful potential to disrupt all global activities, the Covid-19 pandemic is causing a major humanitarian crisis, threatening the food security and nutrition of...
If the United States had quick-thinking and efficient leadership, the pandemic would have infected about 100,000 people and killed only a couple thousand. That’s the experience...
For some time now, there is a rising trend of tagging those writers and intellectuals as traitors in Pakistan who dare to think and write differently.In the words of American...
As the China-India conflict in the Himalayas blows hot and blows cold, Islamabad’s studied reticence has so far only signaled quiet alarm. While both China and India try to...
PIA is a statutory body created to serve revenue paying passengers with safe reliable travel and carriage of cargo, and not as a job provider for political cronies or retired and serving officers...
This refers to the article, 'The minus-one riddle' by Farhan Bokhari. The handling of the coronavirus, the lockdown controversy, the unending confrontation with the opposition, NAB's victimisation...
A tweet from a federal minister has revealed that work for turning the PM House into a university will commence soon. What if the next government decides to undo this conversion to use the structure...
This refers to the article ‘For a knowledge economy’ by Dr Atta-ur-Rahman. This is not the first time that the writer has implored the government to attach topmost priority to developing a...
On June 17, the BNP Group parted ways with the PTI government in the centre on the grounds that the latter had failed to abide by the promises that it had made with the former two years ago, while...
Prime Minister Imran Khan's recently approved investigation, through accountability organizations, against the sugar industry based on the Sugar Forensic Commission Report showed that the sugar...
The Covid-19 pandemic has been instrumental in giving Pakistan a breather at the Financial Action Task Force . Thankfully, Pakistan still has a couple of months to pass amendments to the Anti Money...
While the Covid-19 pandemic has seized the attention of the world, it is easy to forget that other dangerous illnesses also continue to take their toll. According to the 2020 Global AIDS Update...
