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  • Quacks and mental health

    Many are unaware that mental healthcare exists due to lack of exposure and education

  • Politicising cricket

    It’s no news that India does not want to maintain cricketing ties with Pakistan

  • Cyber police

    Move is the state’s attempt to respond to reports that India employed digital spyware created by Israeli cyber firm

  • The world is burning

    Half-way into the year 2021, and it seems that almost half of the world is on fire

  • Travel curbs and students

    Thousands of Pakistanis in Afghan universities left stranded because of the Covid-related closure of Torkham border

  • Days after Eid

    Swarms of flies during the day and hordes of mosquitoes at night in due to uncleared entrails of animals sacrificed

  • Ordinances in court

    IHC calls out the PTI govt for its extensive use of presidential ordinances, bypassing Parliament

  • Questionable remission

    While remission can be granted on the basis of good conduct, the math does not seem to add up

  • Welcome win for PTI

    Opposition cries foul, leveling customary allegations of rigging on the ruling party

  • Covid-19: tougher curbs in Sindh

    The rampaging Delta variant forces Sindh govt to toughen the restrictions on activities across the province

  • Mountaineering: another feat

    Young man from Lahore accomplishes the feat of scaling the two topmost peaks of the world

  • Urban flooding in Islamabad

    CDA had reportedly warned of a cloudburst but the meteorological department ignored the warning

  • Valid criticism

    PM says US really messed it up in Afghanistan, noting that his anti-war stance led to him being labeled ‘Taliban Khan’

  • Unchanged policy rate

    More than a year now that the policy rate has not undergone any change

  • Insensitive bureaucracy

    SC orders the payment of long-withheld salary of a female teacher, thus upholding the earlier decision of BHC

  • Saudi FM’s visit`

    Although a lot of the discussions on the prince’s day-long trip remain under wraps, a few positives have become public

  • Our improved economic security

    Chinese think tank says Pakistan’s economic security has increased by 220% in 2019 compared with 2010

  • Global hunger

    Activists are apprehensive that UN would tilt in favour of agribusiness sidetracking sustainable farming

  • Deteriorating Afghan situation

    Situation across the border has deteriorated to the point that Pakistan Army troops have replaced FC, Levies

  • Tourism: too much potential, but …

    Traffic heading for the scenic destination hovered around 700,000 vehicles

  • PTI win in AJK elections

    Unfortunately, violence at polling stations appeared to be the biggest story of the day

  • 5G and the future

    Chinese smartphone manufacturers eager to launch 5G-enabled smartphones in Pakistan

  • Our femicide problem

    The details of the atrocities victims and survivors faced are bone-chilling

  • To Windies after defeats

    While Pakistan’s performance in the bowling department was by and large okay, their batting was indeed subpar

  • Covid curbs: prefer persuasion

    Govt should use persuasion more than coercion to motivate people to get Covid jabs

  • Politicised FATF

    New Delhi openly confessed to scheming against Pakistan to thwart its efforts to get out of the watchdog’s grey list

  • Digital hunar programme

    The govt plans to train 25,000 educated young persons in digital skills in order to enable them get online jobs

  • Games open

    The 32nd edition of the multi-sport extravaganza is still officially named as Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

  • AJK vote and rhetoric

    The level to which our political discourse descends to puts even rowdy schoolyard and street arguments to shame

  • Another Eid amid pandemic

    Hardly any vendor could be seen operating in accordance with the government’s guidelines

  • Israel, India and spyware

    The reports suspect over 1,000 Indian phone numbers and hundreds of Pakistani numbers were compromised

  • Limited Hajj – again

    Second consecutive year the Hajj pilgrimage is being held on a limited scale

  • ‘Abduction’ and after

    The incident could not have come at a more inopportune time

  • Joining hands for dolphins

    Fishermen along with wildlife officials to defend the flagship species of Pakistan, the Indus River dolphin.

  • South Africa is burning

    The worst spell of violence since the mass-scale destruction took place during the anti-apartheid protests in 1994

  • Russia gas pipeline

    Russia and Pakistan finally agree to build the Pak Stream Gas Pipeline, almost six years after discussions started.

  • Domestic animals act

    Pakistan lacks a Domestic Animals Act under which cases of animal attacks should be litigated

  • Pandemic of job losses

    A survey conducted by the govt revealed that 27.31m workers have been affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

  • Festering wounds

    No religious symbol in modern times has found itself to be more divisive than the Muslim headgear

  • Oil prices: a third hike

    Close on the heels of the federal budget

  • PM at Tashkent

    The prevailing Afghan situation dominates the discourse at a regional conference

  • Killing for ‘hounour’

    So far this year, 81 women have been killied in the name of ‘honour’ in Punjab

  • Water shortage

    It is a perennial issue for the city residents

  • Chinese bus incident

    Chinese sources have consistently referred to it as a “bombing” and an attack

  • Whitewash

    Pakistan’s poor performance led to the dejected Pakistani fans in Birmingham

  • Isn’t Malala our hero?

    She is probably the most recognisable Pakistani in the world

  • Amid a fourth wave

    The situation is particularly bad in Sindh province where the Covid-19 positivity rate has climbed to 7%

  • Restoring biodiversity

    UN prepares the first draft text for the upcoming international summit talks on biodiversity in China

  • Karachi rain misery

    Dark clouds burst while the authorities still in the middle rain preparations

  • Anti-torture bill

    Brought to a vote only after opposition accuses the govt of making human rights legislation “vanish” from the agenda