TODAY’S PAPER | October 30, 2025 | EPAPER

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  • The tool of accountability

    There is an urgent need to bring amendments that could enable NAB to act independent of any influence

  • Bit of hope on Covid-19

    Even at the breakneck speed at which research is moving, we must keep our optimism cautious

  • Peasants’ rights

    Agricultural workers are fully prone to exploitation by landlords and their sordid tricks

  • Another APC

    Opposition has been a divided house ever since the PTI-led government has come into power

  • Population and pandemic

    Pakistan needs to adopt a serious integrated approach meant to cut down on the population growth rate

  • Virtual crimes

    Perhaps, a separate division for cybercrime courts would be able to solve this and expedite justice

  • Rise in drug prices

    Pakistan’s continuing failure to embrace generic drugs is a significant part of the problem

  • The cost of sit-ins

    But one injustice cannot be compensated through another injustice

  • Boosting agriculture

    Reservoirs will help produce hydro-electricity, a relatively inexpensive source of power

  • In this together

    Is it any wonder countries that reported best results in containing Covid-19 were ones with lower inequality

  • Global hunger crisis

    Pakistan will be at the forefront as it is directly and adversely affected by all these problems

  • Kasur-style scandal?

    The suspect had retired recently from a government job as a schoolteacher

  • Same old story

    Rain in Karachi is rare, and dangerous

  • Limiting families

    Family planning services have been badly affected by the coronavirus lockdown in Sindh

  • Fake or not?

    It’s the matter of the credibility of our aviation industry and the reputation of our country

  • Wheat flour shortage

    The government could use targeted rationing to ensure poor people can afford the commodity

  • Unrecognised degrees

    Sindh Pharmacy Council, which plays a pivotal role in the registration process, has been lying dormant for 13 years

  • Diamer-Bhasha dam

    The PM overstated the dam’s approval timeline by a few decades and oversold its overall significance

  • Fattening public debt

    The PTI government has now added over Rs10.2 trillion to the public debt since coming to power

  • Differently-abled people

    In the 2016 census, the differently-abled were not counted

  • Forgotten Afghan refugees d

    For too long, Pakistan has shouldered that burden

  • Chabahar shock to Modi

    As for India the deal serves a knockout punch

  • Cattle market SOPs

    It’s essential to educate people about steps to protect themselves from the deadly virus

  • Another audio leak

    PTI's leadership has been averse to holding leaders accountable until forced to do so

  • In the line of duty

    The mere fact that we need the army to be actively involved shows that our security problems are still worse than most

  • Ecological improvement

    The success on climate change should not be on paper only

  • Incentivising housing to lift economy

    Govt does deserve to be applauded for successfully convincing the world to allow amnesty of sorts

  • Investing in tourism

    One major hindrance that the country is yet to fully tackle is the security situation in the country

  • Hagia Sophia Mosque

    The Hagia Sophia decision is widely seen in the context of Erdogan’s quest for Islamising Turkey

  • Load-shedding and Karachi

    The power infrastructure remains so vulnerable that it cannot even withstand a very small amount of rain

  • Thal Canal project

    We hope the significant project does not fall prey to politics

  • Bleak prognosis

    All one can do is hope, which increasingly is harder to do

  • EOBI: good news

    Initiatives like those under EOBI and Ehsaas Programme provide some kind of social security

  • State of railways

    Not long ago the Pakistan Railways hauled the major freight traffic. Not so any more

  • Equal emergency

    AIDS was never a top priority but emergence of several other health emergencies have pushed this one to the backburner

  • India and UN’s rights report

    New Delhi’s refusal to even reply to the report within the stipulated 60-day period is not a surprise

  • UN report on Soleimani

    Even Trump appointees weren’t willing to back him up

  • Educational activities

    Let us be optimistic about the revival of educational activities in the country

  • Pending NAB cases

    That the dispensation of justice in Pakistan is notoriously slow is no overstatement

  • ‘Ghost schemes’

    Rulers of Sindh seem to have gained expertise in introducing new terms carrying the prefix “ghost”

  • Our saviours abroad

    The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the global economy

  • New Trump order

    The US was the biggest beneficiary of its international student programmes

  • Away from Covid scare

    A clean environment has played a significant role in keeping the coastal villages entirely safe from the pandemic

  • A rainy day in Karachi

    Nothing has changed over decades in terms of vulnerability of Karachi’s power infrastructure to the burst of clouds

  • Tampered JIT reports?

    If the reports haven't been tampered with, why was the Sindh govt trying to defy the court orders

  • Trump’s hate campaign

    America has seen its share of crooks and criminals in politics. Trump beats all previous records

  • Cotton growers’ woes

    The uncontrolled invasion of locusts swarms has added to the problems of growers

  • Covid-19 and the working class

    The Covid-19 pandemic has directly hit the pockets of over half of the country’s working population

  • PUBG mania

    There is a serious need to create wide-scale awareness about suicide, mental health and addiction

  • Train-coaster crash

    There has never been a tradition that heads roll in the aftermath of such tragedies