Editorial

SP Dawar was head of the Peshawar rural police circle when he was kidnapped

Decisions like these not only help elevate a much needed movement like MeToo to an official level

Handling social evils like beggary merely by twisting arms of law is not likely to produce any positive results

Expanding access to the internet and spreading awareness has a multitude of benefits

PIA board should be revamped, professional people with strong background in the aviation industry should be appointed

The government will do its homework to negotiate favourable terms

Second chances can hardly be offered when people are willing to risk the lives of customers

The exercise will definitely help regain spaces originally meant for parks and playgrounds or other amenity purposes

We are witnessing a wind of change blowing in the country

Thousands of families availed themselves of this state largesse as they took the bus back home

The matter has to be pursued consistently now, so that the capital can move on to solve other problems

On the face of it, the plan looks neat and plausible but questions remain about how such a fund would receive funding

Avoidable simply if a little more attention and priority is accorded to safety measures by the relevant authorities

Police discoveres Rs60 million in counterfeit currency and arrests three members of a gang

Is hockey itself to blame for not being interesting enough and hence not attracting private investments unlike cricket

The ruling party appears confident that the Tax Policy Board will succeed in bringing a greater sense of transparency

Today the number of fatalities caused in the War on Terror is ten times higher than those lost in the 9/11 attacks

Both the ruling party and the outgoing government sought to mudsling over the other

The first of these would apply to the extension of a 2010 accord for deepening cooperation in the field of geosciences

It won’t be wrong to say that the scourge of falsifying education degrees has infected every sphere of public life

The accountability body says it had so far distributed Rs1.2 billion among 6,490 victims

Democrats gain a foothold in Washington from where they can prove an irritant to the Republicans

NADRA registers orphans and children with unknown parentage in its national database

What is most necessary is an overhaul of water management and conservation policies

Pakistan ought to become a signatory to the International Convention against Enforced Disappearances

Pakistan does worryingly little to bridge the gap and administrative weaknesses in the system are to blame for it

More rigorous checks and balances are needed so that millions of elderly do not lose their life savings

Surprisingly, Karachi’s proposed anti-riot police unit is a lot leaner than what is expected of an effective force

Pakistan spends a mere .06 per cent of its GDP on health

Purana Pakistan creeps in again

Pakistan has entered a debilitating inflationary cycle amidst rising global oil prices

Pakistani currency faces a hefty depreciation of Rs25.096 against the SDR

Afghanistan can ill afford to lose any more chances to build durable peace

Next time one is accosted by a minor, who begs for roti and claims to be starving, one should not be skeptical

The top priority for now is to make sure that Maulana Sami’s murder is not allowed to be given a political colour

Self-help is the best help and to expect others to clean up our mess does not help much

Concerns have been raised about other historic buildings as well

Successful sell-offs can take place in those countries where there is an active regulatory structure in place

Nations around the globe celebrate the World Savings Day on October 31 every year

Pakistani artists are valued for their work across the borders

SSGCL served notice to halt winter gas supply to captive power plants which has industrialists agitated

70-year-old Justice (retd) Mehmood Akhter was targeted, killed in broad daylight

It may not be change but Pakistan has managed to drag its heath sector out of a bottomless pit slowly, subbornly

The bus service will serve to strengthen the friendship that boasts of being higher than the Himalayas

Over a year has passed since Myanmar’s military mounted a crackdown against the Muslim minority group

Such is the burden of decades of unanswered complaints and unaddressed grievances

The issue is the latest battleground in the long-running treasury-opposition conflict that shows no sign of abating

The crisis brought on by the dismissal of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe exacerbates political tensions

If performance has indeed improved, nothing should stop the authorities from setting higher goals and achieving them

Majority of the women remain sidelined owing to cultural and societal mindsets