Pakistan is no more largely an agricultural, rural society, where landowners hold sway over the economic, social and political space. Society has...
The utilisation statistics of the Punjab development budget tell the same old story of how education and health are neglected for the sake of...

The strategic ties between India and the US are on the rise and are likely to have implications for Pakistan’s security and strategic...
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari are trying to restore the PPP’s political standing in Punjab. While Bilawal is taking care of the...
A section of the security establishment has come out of its denial mode about the presence of Isis/Daesh in Pakistan and started recognising the...

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is largely viewed as a significant Chinese investment that will infuse a new life into Pakistan’s...
The brutal torture of Tayyaba, a 10-year-old housemaid, in Islamabad has triggered the advocacy of child rights in the media and higher judiciary....
Islamabad is trying to balance its act in Afghanistan with Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa reaching out to the Kabul leadership twice after...
Unnerved by the latest round of Kashmiri intifada, New Delhi has stepped up military and non-military aggressive measures against the Kashmiri...
The death toll of civilian and military casualties in cross-border firing along the Line of Control is on the rise. The casualties and injuries...
Winters traditionally begin with foggy days in the plains of Punjab but the fog that enveloped Lahore on November 2 was unprecedented. The smoky...
Exploitation of limestone in the Salt Range for the manufacturing of cement has become a nightmare for the local population. The fast depletion and...
The economic policies adopted by our self-serving elite have spawned a vicious cycle of low levels of economic growth, socio-economic inequality and...
Lahore’s sewerage-cum-drainage system was built nearly 80 years ago for a small city with a population of a few hundred thousand....
Some recent credible investigations by the Punjab government into the quality of locally-manufactured drugs show that those people who keep...
While an array of foreign and domestic forces are involved in fomenting terrorism in Pakistan, illegal movement at the Pak-Afghan border and the...
It seems that in the eyes of the National Data Registration Authority , every man in Pakistan is a suspected alien until he proves it otherwise. I...
Punjab is suffering under the burden of Lahore. While around 10 percent of the province’s 101 million people live in Lahore, 30-40 percent of...
The Punjab government presents its true annual budget at the end of a fiscal year. What it brandishes at the year’s beginning gives only a...
With every passing day, destruction of the beautiful Margalla Hills goes on with grave implications for the climate and landscape of Islamabad. For...