Editorial

Farmers continue to suffer as depressed commodity prices and floods shave off their produce

No Muslim family should engage in birth control: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Global Slavery Index 2015 has revealed that 45.8 million people are living in slavery across the world

It must not be forgotten that those now repatriated were the sea in which extremists swam

Mercifully the bomb targeting a Chinese engineer in Karachi missed its mark by a wide margin

The new leader of the Taliban has made it explicitly clear that peace talks are not on the agenda

Dr Deepak Raj has been left paralysed and an amputee after a reportedly staged encounter by the Sindh police

Pakistan has no shortage of existential threats, some of them more existential than others

There have been calls for the appointment of an interim prime minister to cover the PM’s incapacity

Federal funding for a hundred different development projects in PTI-ruled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has been blocked

Western countries now reaping the refugee and asylum crisis are the victims of their own actions

Continued Chinese irritation on slow progress and lack of funds on the Pakistani side are serious concerns

Clock is ticking for NADRA — as well as the thousands who hold a CNIC fraudulently obtained

Continued rancour on ToRs and further delays in setting up an inquiry will greatly harm the country

It is commendable that the LHC has corrected a historical wrong

The controlling of wives and bringing them to heel is for the collective good of society, according to the CII

Six men who 'belong' to two networks said to be run by Afghan intelligence agency NDS have been captured in Quetta

Murder of Alesha, a coordinator for the K-P Trans Action Alliance is a tragedy that cannot be condemned enough

There are 25 million boys and girls out of school or almost half of all children, nationally

Pakistan has a drug problem that many only acknowledge grudgingly

Over $9 billion has been remitted out of Pakistan according to a report presented by the then SBP governor in 2013

Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada is the new Taliban leader with Sirajuddin Haqqani and Maulvi Yakoob as his deputies

Pakistan cannot rely only on the Chinese and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor as the panacea for multiple ills

Pakistan has expectedly missed its GDP growth rate target in the outgoing fiscal year

Announcement by the central bank, snipping interest rate by another quarter of a percentage point, surprised everyone

With multiple sources seemingly confirming the death of Mullah Mansoor, a welter of questions are asked and unanswered

It appears Pakistani universities, at times, function more as nunneries than varsities instituted to impart education

Asian Development Bank is set to give its approval to a $300-million loan aimed at reforming public-sector enterprises

Pakistan has now formally applied to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group

Quacquarelli Symonds placed Pakistan at the very bottom of a 50-country list comparing their higher education systems

MPs will now receive a monthly salary package of Rs470,000

Government is likely to use upcoming budget to again increase the tax burden on those who are already heavily taxed

Blasphemy laws continue to be misused, by those who are unafraid of ever being punished for their fake claims

There is no dispute that there is much that needs adjustment in the national electoral system

Breathing life back into the stalled peace process between India and Pakistan is not going to be easy

It is no secret that labour rights in Pakistan are rarely implemented

There are codes and guiding principles that underpin international relationships

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has just delivered a master class in arcane communication

The FBR clearly lacks vision when it comes to reforming the taxation system

Pakistan is the only country in the region not to have elevated a woman to the highest level of the judiciary

WHO representative in Pakistan Dr Michel Thieren has stated that polio could be eliminated in Pakistan within months

A female professor from the University of Karachi (KU) has been facing a taxing dilemma for two months now

US lawmakers moved to stop the government from funding a sale of eight F-16 jets to Pakistan

Appearance of the PM in parliament on May 16 has done nothing to dampen the fires ignited by the Panama Papers affair

Pakistan won the Asian Team Squash Championship for the record 15th time

Any attempt to solve Karachi’s mass and rapid transit problems seem doomed

Whatever influence Pakistan may have had over the Taliban is largely dissipated and the cycle looks set to continue

Punjab has experienced the biggest jump in violence this year

For the thousands of abandoned, homeless and orphaned Pakistani children, our legal system is particularly perilous

Sindh Police recently dismissed 1,800 personnel hired as reserves between 2012 and 2014 for being appointed illegally