Editorial

Events have moved swiftly since Altaf Hussain made an inflammatory speech on August 22

Over the years, NADRA has become something of a benchmark agency for Pakistan

The Sindh cabinet on August 20 approved the draft of the Sindh Madrassa Registration Bill 2016

Child bomber killed 51 wedding guest in Gazientap on August 21

These are rough times for the children of Pakistan

Instead of just blaming politicians for poor behaviour, our attention should also turn towards ourselves

When the government wants something done, more often than not, it gets done and soon enough

Tokyo 2020 will be no different if the current crisis in Pakistani sport continues

FDI clocked at $64.3 million in July, down 14.6 per cent received in the first month of the preceding fiscal year

LHC upheld a previous decision to stop construction within 200 feet of 11 heritage sites along the route

Omran Daqneesh sits stunned and bloody-faced in the back of an ambulance in Aleppo, Syria

Nobody is suffering for a cause, and those that turn up at mass rallies expect to be entertained and fed for doing so

Until and unless both sides put something on the table that is negotiable, then there is nothing to talk about

No nightmare could be worse, and yet this scourge continues to haunt citizens in Pakistan on a daily basis

Reforming the status of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) is overdue by many decades

Transparency, particularly financial transparency, is seemingly not a priority for the NTS

A NA panel approved an amended version of a bill that prohibits people from keeping assets in the name of others

The terrorists just never go away

To truly integrate its various communities, a society must be open to change

Many of the pending projects have been hung up for almost a decade

Nasser Khan Janjua is to monitor implementation of the by now somewhat threadbare NAP

Many individuals see carrying weapons as a necessity against the onslaught of criminals

The drawn series is a fair reflection on both teams, with both sides playing mercurial, engaging cricket

Pakistan Railways suffered another loss-making year as its revenue deficit surpassed Rs28 billion during fiscal 2016

Our institutions need to start taking the plight of those at the receiving end of such heinous crimes seriously

Pakistan will eventually need to focus on improving export earnings and reducing tax evasion and avoidance

Sushma Swaraj is on record having said that negotiations about Kashmir with Pakistan are just not on the table

Army chief has rightly pointed out that military gains will be for naught unless the civil side of compact is honoured

The paradox of Pakistan is that it has failed to fulfil the expectations of many and become a failed state

If this government could roll back history and prevent the internet from ever coming to Pakistan, then it would

Our national flag carrier, it seems, is forever crash-landing itself into trouble

Pakistan’s first batting great Hanif Mohammad passed away on August 11

An important initiative will soon be undertaken at the Post Graduate Medical Institute in Peshawar

How not to build an airport, Part 958

The country is not due to receive any hefty amount of foreign exchange in the near future

UNDP's country director has said that public spending in the country is concentrated in a few developed districts

By the time these words are read most of the bodies from the Quetta attack will have been buried

There are so many questions surrounding the detention of an American citizen named Matthew Craig Barrett

Bombs and their carriage and detection are a concern for everybody

Parliament is increasingly an irrelevance as we move once again to a time of containers and loudspeakers

With at least 63 dead and 50 or more injured, this is in reality just another bombing

The Lord’s win now seems like a distant memory with Pakistan

Pakistan has made Herculean efforts to finally eradicate the polio virus

The IMF cleared payment of $102 million in what was the last loan of the three-year Extended Fund Facility

IG Sindh gave Rs50,000 as reward to a citizen who had shot and killed two robbers in Karachi

Punjab govt is working on a province-wide evaluation to judge capacity of various buildings to withstand tremors

PM and his allies are seeking to have Imran Khan disqualified from NA by virtue of a range of alleged misdemeanours

Election manifestos of political parties have a habit of being overly ambitious

CII has now stated that it considers the Hague Convention to be in contravention of religious law and the Constitution

The organisation has done nothing to ease the tensions between India and Pakistan