TODAY’S PAPER | August 01, 2026 | EPAPER

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  • Victims need action not rhetoric

    300,000 people are struggling to get to higher ground with what little is left of their belongings. What are we to do for our brothers and sisters who no longer have homes to go to

  • 'Look beta, that’s where the plane crashed'

    Dozens of families decided to make a day of it and rushed to Daman-e-Koh, to look at the debris of fallen flight ED 202. A binocular man even charged Rs10 for a closer look.

  • Ramazan inflation: what we can do

    Many of us with plans for Ramazan and Eid have to sit and think. Can we expect that our government can do something to seriously control inflation?

  • Being a mentor

    I started my career as a teacher and soon found that students had fallen in love, in a way with me, as the method I used was interesting for them.

  • What not to do when disaster strikes

    Interior minister Rahman Malik acted in a highly unprofessional manner by raising the hopes of people and claiming there were survivors.

  • Meera has a website!

    We don’t have to make any guesses on the film star’s age anymore because the site is kind enough to inform us that ‘the dashing beauty’ was born in Lahore on May 12, 1987.

  • ‘I am not your man’

    I have never supported Shahid Afridi. Is it because I never bought into the whole boom boom mania? Yes, partly.

  • Stop blaming the media

    Look people, I know you’re upset about the Airblue plane crash – it was devastating – but that does not mean you should make this tragedy into a ‘hate the media’ game.

  • Do judge a book by its cover

    With ebooks coming on the scene book covers design have not lost importance. Innovative artwork can subtly convey the style, mood, story and theme of a book

  • Confessions of a desensitized journalist

    When I wriote a tv report on the Airblue crash story I was reminded to not use the term 'bodies' but 'parts of bodies' as it was so much more effective, illustrative and inhumane.