It has now become an annual ritual at this time of year. Smog blankets paddy pockets in central Punjab with ever-growing intensity. What ensues is...
Bank deposits of private businesses in Pakistan declined 5.25 percent in July. Rs131.8 billion left the banking system in the first fiscal month of...
Bringing madressahs into the mainstream of our national life remains an elusive proposition as is the fabled dream of madressah reforms. Our...
The overall literacy rate in Pakistan tumbled down from 60 percent in 2012-13 to 58 percent in 2013-14 according to the Pakistan Social and Living...
"Cities die where thieves thrive". Words of wisdom surged with the rise in mercury and in the number of souls lost so senselessly and so helplessly...
‘Soft image’’ is one of the many abundantly used and abused clichés in Pakistan. Media intellectuals relentlessly enlighten us, the commoners...
Aftershocks as earth shattering as a full-grown earthquake have continued to jolt Nepal off the path to resurrection since April 25. On May 12...
It’s not easy being a woman in a place where women often bear the brunt of what they are not culpable for. Electricity loadshedding is one such...
On April 17 the UN appealed for $275 million in humanitarian aid to Yemen. What a poor country, we would naturally reflect somberly. And we would...
“And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they...
"My area ends here", the area salesman announced. We were standing at the outer edge of a small village in the faraway depths of rural Sahiwal. In...
Senate elections once again blessed us the un-VIP rabble with the soothing sight of our healthy wealthy democrats of nearly all ilk advancing the...
The opponents of the metro bus have infinite reasons against the mega-billion commuter facility such as the apparently inflated costs and...
‘Tum jeeto ya haro hamain tum se piyar hay’ . Women would pop up in front of TV cameras fawning over cricketers in paranormal delirium. ‘Tum...
There’s no dearth of outspoken Muslims and non-Muslims like Michael Moore and Jean-Marie Le Pen sceptical of the origin and objectivity of...
When it comes to charity Pakistanis are considered among the most generous of nations. Every year Pakistanis are reported to donate tens of billions...
Imagine a Pakistan without the River Indus, a Pakistan with almost double the population and almost no sources and reserves of clean water, a...
It was disturbing to see people suffering the petrol crisis. It was funny to see people cursing the rulers for the petroleum crisis. They voted for...
According to the International Federation of Journalists, the most dangerous place for journalists in 2014 was Pakistan. The 14 journalists killed...
Banging people’s head and bodies against a wall again and again, keeping them without clothes most of the time, depriving them of sleep, force...
