Analysis

FIA is advised not to play a game which is not in accordance with law and adhere to the law than to the rule of man

We as citizens have every right to ask some basic questions from our political leaders and heads of political parties

Karachi is a megacity and needs strategic rainwater management planning based on collective wisdom

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gueterres has rightly said no woman and child should be allowed to die

Diplomacy is an art

In the past, some would argue that this is because the major defaulters are in positions of power

Covid-19: a game changer

Well-informed, dynamic economic policy discourse is the need of the hour

Costs of solar energy production and plant maintenance quite high

Board of Investment needs to step up efforts to exploit opportunities which country offers

Govt trying to resume IMF programme; lender may ask for fiscal adjustment

Karachi is a classic example of such choking of the political system

The existing local government is a sham. There is no political responsibility. That is how cities die.

What will these tens of thousands of university graduates do in terms of finding employment?

Authorities need to get ever more vigilant on such joyous occasions

It is essential that they provide the students with the opportunity to appeal individually against unfair grading

China and the US must remain cognizant of red lines

That said it would be unfair to blame the entire phenomenon on ‘ill-informed masses’

The safest option, therefore, remains to treat confidential information as confidential, and burn after reading

Pakistan is old enough to have learnt its lessons.

Overabundant capacity to store information results in higher propensity to memorise which reduces machine intelligence

Ram temple is a serious test case for the so-called Indian democracy and secularism because of three main reasons

Our unsustainable population growth has rightly been described as a ticking time bomb

Evidently, this was not a onetime statement, but a well thought-out strategy

We have all kinds of laws but implementation is missing, hence this mess

Pakistan has to also balance its relations with Iran, even if the tilt remains toward Saudi Arabia

World cannot be complicit to seeds of bigotry that have been sowed by BJP and ignore the plight of Indian Muslims

Corruption in local councils and municipal bodies has long been rife. It needs to be curbed.

Frequency with which terrorists incidents have been happening in Balochistan can be viewed in the context of CPEC

Sindh and the country’s commercial capital of Karachi go underwater every time it rains

Beirut explosion was sheer incompetence by a corrupt and broken state

Even today, the PPP is not ready to empower the local government, particularly in Karachi

Erdogan in Turkey and Imran in Pakistan broke tradition of political dynasties

Perhaps the next six months would provide insights into how the evolving dynamics play out

Violence against women continues to grow in Pakistan

Unfortunately, US suffers from a bigger crisis than the pandemic — the crisis of leadership.

150 major weather events have been reported across Pakistan from 1998 to 2018

Kashmir is not a static issue anymore

Market economy is most-effective option for enhancing productivity

Battle over technological advancement accelerating this transition

If Pakistan attracts huge FDI, then BOP deficit may be cut drastically

Optic fibre cables should be laid as these have high data-carrying capacity

Case of lions death has highlighted the abject regard we have for animals, especially the exotic kind

The police kill people who want to break the law and also when they themselves want to break the law

Nothing should annoy a friend like Saudi Arabia with which our bilateral ties spans our entire existence as a nation

A time would come that the true reality in Kashmir will also hit Modi’s India and Modi himself

Smart policy opens space, options and choices; India’s has pushed it in a blind alley

For the non-believers out there, the data is now irrefutably clear

Progress for women is extremely important for a developing country like Pakistan

There are many colonial-era heritage buildings in Karachi and most of them are in a neglected state