Editorial

Calls to the Afghan Taliban to observe a ceasefire during Ramazan have fallen on deaf ears

A day after his performance was praised by the Sindh chief minister, Asif Hyder Shah was removed from his post

Maleeha Lodhi has spoken strongly in the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council Reform

The government has not the slightest interest — or indeed intention — in creating a national counter-terror narrative

Ishaq Dar has said government’s focus would now be on growth since country’s macroeconomic indicators had stabilised

The performance of the economy in the outgoing year has remained far from adequate

We never will see his like again and the world is poorer for his passing, for he truly was... The Greatest

There needs to be a set of protocols that define how governance is to continue prime minister falls ill

Conviction of a former religious affairs minister may in retrospect be seen as a watershed in fight against corruption

Ishaq Dar unveiled a Rs4.4 trillion budget on June 3, kicking off his speech by praising the government’s achievements

Ziaul Haq’s political protégé has no qualms about being away from his native land

There is no evidence that the government of Pakistan or any of its official was in any way involved in the assault

The storm that ripped across K-P, twin cities on June 1 was one of the most powerful that residents had ever seen

Farmers continue to suffer as depressed commodity prices and floods shave off their produce

No Muslim family should engage in birth control: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Global Slavery Index 2015 has revealed that 45.8 million people are living in slavery across the world

It must not be forgotten that those now repatriated were the sea in which extremists swam

Mercifully the bomb targeting a Chinese engineer in Karachi missed its mark by a wide margin

The new leader of the Taliban has made it explicitly clear that peace talks are not on the agenda

Dr Deepak Raj has been left paralysed and an amputee after a reportedly staged encounter by the Sindh police

Pakistan has no shortage of existential threats, some of them more existential than others

There have been calls for the appointment of an interim prime minister to cover the PM’s incapacity

Federal funding for a hundred different development projects in PTI-ruled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has been blocked

Western countries now reaping the refugee and asylum crisis are the victims of their own actions

Continued Chinese irritation on slow progress and lack of funds on the Pakistani side are serious concerns

Clock is ticking for NADRA — as well as the thousands who hold a CNIC fraudulently obtained

Continued rancour on ToRs and further delays in setting up an inquiry will greatly harm the country

It is commendable that the LHC has corrected a historical wrong

The controlling of wives and bringing them to heel is for the collective good of society, according to the CII

Six men who 'belong' to two networks said to be run by Afghan intelligence agency NDS have been captured in Quetta

Murder of Alesha, a coordinator for the K-P Trans Action Alliance is a tragedy that cannot be condemned enough

There are 25 million boys and girls out of school or almost half of all children, nationally

Pakistan has a drug problem that many only acknowledge grudgingly

Over $9 billion has been remitted out of Pakistan according to a report presented by the then SBP governor in 2013

Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada is the new Taliban leader with Sirajuddin Haqqani and Maulvi Yakoob as his deputies

Pakistan cannot rely only on the Chinese and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor as the panacea for multiple ills

Pakistan has expectedly missed its GDP growth rate target in the outgoing fiscal year

Announcement by the central bank, snipping interest rate by another quarter of a percentage point, surprised everyone

With multiple sources seemingly confirming the death of Mullah Mansoor, a welter of questions are asked and unanswered

It appears Pakistani universities, at times, function more as nunneries than varsities instituted to impart education

Asian Development Bank is set to give its approval to a $300-million loan aimed at reforming public-sector enterprises

Pakistan has now formally applied to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group

Quacquarelli Symonds placed Pakistan at the very bottom of a 50-country list comparing their higher education systems

MPs will now receive a monthly salary package of Rs470,000

Government is likely to use upcoming budget to again increase the tax burden on those who are already heavily taxed

Blasphemy laws continue to be misused, by those who are unafraid of ever being punished for their fake claims

There is no dispute that there is much that needs adjustment in the national electoral system

Breathing life back into the stalled peace process between India and Pakistan is not going to be easy

It is no secret that labour rights in Pakistan are rarely implemented

There are codes and guiding principles that underpin international relationships