Editorial

In other countries, drivers of passenger vehicles go through rigorous scrutiny by motor carrier safety departments

Now the focus is going to shift on Friday to the Vietnamese city of Danang where Trump will arrive today

Alliance is rumoured to be product of political heads by what is euphemistically known as ‘The Establishment’

The Paradise Papers have appeared at a time when rumour mills in Pakistan are operating at full capacity

Pakistan’s electricity consumption of roughly 540 KWh per capita is five times less than the world average

The federal cabinet at its last meeting directed the establishment division to review the quota system in Pakistan

Some poems are destined to be pillaged and WB Yeats’s, The Second Coming (1919), is one such

Demonetisation has gradually come unstuck in India after just a year

Regard for human safety is nonexistent when it is juxtaposed with profits to be made

Accountability court on Wednesday formally indicted former premier Nawaz Sharif in all three of the NAB cases

Howard Zinn once said that small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world

In recent weeks, several articles have appeared recalling declaration of the state of emergency by Gen Musharraf

In conversation, Dina recalled her father with warm affection

Washington’s objections on CPEC is that project runs through the internationally disputed territory of Kashmir

Pakistan has sent its strongest signal yet to Iran that it wishes to enhance at all levels the neighbourly bond

Pharmaceuticals are big business globally and no less in Pakistan where pharmacies are found everywhere

It is no exaggeration to say that this is a watershed moment, all is not well in KSA

For about a year or so, the country seems to have lost stability, order and a sense of direction

Although not named in the Panama Papers, they were directly responsible for the downfall of Nawaz Sharif

It’s difficult to say when the PSX was hit by a truck and ended up in its current foul state of decay

Harassment is common, most women have learned to take it in their stride within the workplace

Rights groups are lobbying hard for the swift release of 35 asylum seekers from Pakistan and Somalia

As days have passed and weather systems remain static with no sign of rain or a westerly wind

A trifecta of chronic ailments affects scientific research culture in Pakistan

The last five years have been drastic in terms of trade activities within Pakistan and K-P

A recent visit to Lahore brought me face-to-face with the city’s smog situation

The reference in the title to this article is not to the country’s political air

The dignity of minority community members has been stripped by state actors and civilians for decades in Pakistan

Pledging mental illness in legal cases has long been a contentious issue

Hitherto the pace of change, social and political, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been exceedingly slow

Youth development is unanimously identified as pertinent municipal issue by all democracies in the world

Private medical colleges and the government’s self-financed seats cost more than five million rupees for a student

The responsible authorities need to be thinking ahead if a public health crisis is to be averted in the new year

A threat to democracy? Look no further than the Sindh Assembly

Karachi has a rock-bottom reputation as a city that is unsafe to live and work in

The ECP must carry out full delimitation before the next elections

Military stealth is at best a stepping stone, and at worst a false indicator of victory

Realistic picture of the unprincipled, culturally-alien, oligarchic, ultra-status-quo reactionary political leadership

Online “friendships” with patients may also alter the patient-physician relationship

The ideological fragmentation and myopia we see in our world today is perturbing

That water is a critical resource for Pakistan and for all countries in the world is a well-understood fact

In the raging debate on national security and economy, the question of whose security is it anyway has been ignored

Positive criticism plays a pivotal part in any democratic dispensation

In this context ‘disclosure’ means the revealing of something that was hidden or secret

Therefore, government officials have a mammoth task to phase out low-grade foodstuffs

Like Sindh, Punjab’s love affair with dynastic rule is neither quite over nor about to change

We can expect further costly and embarrassing arbitrations into the far future

We must remember that peace and order are not build on self-enforcing principles

One important provision is external audit under Section 32

There is to be an e-challan system and tighter and timelier action taken against those violating traffic laws