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  • 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

  • 5G and the future

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

  • TikTok ban

    The authorities have once again rushed to our collective rescue by banning the popular social media platform

  • 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

  • Joining hands for dolphins

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Introducing electric bikes

    Part of the ambitious Pakistan Electric Vehicle Policy 2020-2025

  • House of the people

    The state and its elected and non-elected cohorts engage in a seemingly endless tussle of coming up trumps

  • Taliban march

    Towns after towns are falling to the sturdy militants

  • Dead chicken

    Punjab Food Authority eliminates the threat of substandard, adulterated and unhygienic eatables

  • Illegal Israeli settlements

    Report states that Israeli settlements are illegal under Fourth Geneva Convention which is binding for all countries

  • Registering aliens

    Number of foreigners living in Pakistan illegally is not exactly known, but the figure is said to run into millions

  • Women Commission

    The position of Punjab Commission on Status of Women chairperson remains vacant for more than three years

  • Intended to terrorise

    Recent incident of sexual assault in the federal capital spurs PM House into action

  • SSC exams mismanagement

    Sindh Education Department adamant that it would conduct exams despite threat of fourth Covid wave

  • Preparations for rain

    WASA yet to release Rs326m by the Sindh govt needed to meet rain emergency situations

  • Covid handling

    Pakistan’s Covid response has earned international recognition

  • Covid-hit England tour

    The lethal microbe penetrated into the English cricket team camp, forcing the ECB to announce a whole new squad

  • Inequitable vaccine access

    WHO makes a global appeal for funding vaccines and medical equipment to enable countries to combat the pandemic

  • PM security protocol

    As an austerity measure and to avoid inconveniencing the public

  • More tax on NSS profits

    The govt hikes the income tax rates on the profits made on savings schemes for National Savings

  • LGs: landmark verdict

    The act of dissolution disenfranchises the people says SC

  • PM in Gwadar

    Many elements of the speech made on the occasion politicised

  • Tigray conflict

    Agitations between the Ethiopian govt and the TPLF has now left over 400,000 people suffering from famine

  • Hike in power tariff

    After jacking up petroleum prices twice in a month

  • Widening trade deficit

    An increasing import bill along with a comparatively slow growth in exports

  • Testing times

    Despite several protests, the students have failed to convince the government to cancel the upcoming board exams

  • Addressing food insecurity

    Poor households across Pakistan remain extremely vulnerable

  • Collective response

    With the advent of social media scientists are now increasingly interested in our civilisation’s collective behaviour

  • Quetta attack

    In less than a week’s time, terrorists targeted our soldiers in four separate incidents

  • Security briefing

    Pakistan to talk with whoever is in power in Kabul in the interest of regional peace

  • Rising gender disparity

    A wide gap between male and female voters

  • Another raise in oil prices

    For a second fortnight in a row, the incumbent govt raise the prices of various petroleum products

  • Imran’s NA speech

    PM Imran touches on several key issues, key among them the foreign policy issues of the day.

  • Buck passing

    It is well known that officials and politicians are in the habit of blaming one another for their own failings