Adnan Adil

Adnan Adil

  • Our middle class

    Pakistan is no more largely an agricultural, rural society, where landowners hold sway over the economic, social and political space. Society has...

  • A question of priorities

    The utilisation statistics of the Punjab development budget tell the same old story of how education and health are neglected for the sake of...

  • A strategic alliance

    A strategic alliance

    The strategic ties between India and the US are on the rise and are likely to have implications for Pakistan’s security and strategic...

  • The PPP in Punjab

    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...

  • Fighting Daesh

    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...

  • CPEC for peace

    CPEC for peace

    The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is largely viewed as a significant Chinese investment that will infuse a new life into Pakistan’s...

  • The root of child labour

    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....

  • A balancing act in Afghanistan

    Islamabad is trying to balance its act in Afghanistan with Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa reaching out to the Kabul leadership twice after...

  • Altering Kashmir

    Unnerved by the latest round of Kashmiri intifada, New Delhi has stepped up military and non-military aggressive measures against the Kashmiri...

  • Indian belligerence

    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...

  • Foggy days

    Winters traditionally begin with foggy days in the plains of Punjab but the fog that enveloped Lahore on November 2 was unprecedented. The smoky...

  • Victims of limestone

    Exploitation of limestone in the Salt Range for the manufacturing of cement has become a nightmare for the local population. The fast depletion and...

  • An economic dystopia

    The economic policies adopted by our self-serving elite have spawned a vicious cycle of low levels of economic growth, socio-economic inequality and...

  • Flooding in Lahore

    Lahore’s sewerage-cum-drainage system was built nearly 80 years ago for a small city with a population of a few hundred thousand....

  • Ensuring quality drugs

    Some recent credible investigations by the Punjab government into the quality of locally-manufactured drugs show that those people who keep...

  • Countering terrorism

    While an array of foreign and domestic forces are involved in fomenting terrorism in Pakistan, illegal movement at the Pak-Afghan border and the...

  • On becoming a citizen

    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...

  • Lahore takes all

    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...

  • Punjab’s real budget

    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...

  • Crushing the Margalla Hills

    With every passing day, destruction of the beautiful Margalla Hills goes on with grave implications for the climate and landscape of Islamabad. For...