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  • Fishing in troubled waters

    Police have arrested five shopkeepers involved in hoarding relief goods and selling them at exorbitant prices

  • Drug rehab

    Projects like Drugs Free Peshawar campaign needed across the province

  • The statistical discord

    There is an ensuing discord between the federation and one of its units over fiscal budgeting

  • Abandoned hope

    Officials failed to send in a rescue helicopter to save innocent lives staring death in the face

  • Dengue threat

    Besides Rawalpindi, dengue cases have surfaced in other towns and cities including Karachi and Lahore

  • Departmental sports

    The ban was initially imposed as part of Imran’s efforts to reform domestic sports systems

  • Covid-19 recovery

    Covid-19 has left a legacy of rising poverty and widening inequality

  • Politicking amid floods

    The best we have gotten so far is some begging bowl tweets, calling for flood relief donations from the public

  • A belated relief

    Electricity consumers will have to bear the toil for July to September bills is an untenable cost

  • The Doha connect

    The bilateral trade is on the surge as Qatar supplies the lifeline of energy in the form of LNG

  • Interest rate gamble

    The million-dollar question is what impact it will have on a battered rupee

  • Hindutva hubris

    BJP was quick to disassociate itself from its member's words

  • Dutch treat

    Pakistan has clean swept against the Netherlands in the three-match ODI series

  • Mercury politics

    The federal government and the PTI are at draggers drawn with each other

  • Floods: poor response

    Protests by flood victims in Punjab have largely been ignored by the provincial government

  • Towards tolerance

    Heads of religious communities must put their differences aside and show they are in unison with one another

  • The deadly inflation

    The incumbent is the first to be appointed on the heels of a constitutional amendment empowering the central bank

  • Adhere to reason

    Official bans on electronic media have lost their veracity

  • UK deportation deal

    London is still not bound to turn over anyone wanted for crimes in Pakistan

  • Drop in remittances

    Experts attribute this big drop in remittances to the post-Eid and post-Hajj drop-off

  • Abandoned villages

    Residents of Keti Bunder, Mirpur Sakro, Garho and Buharo are suffering from food shortages and an outbreak of diseases

  • The CPEC riddle

    One of the prime objections is that the CPEC Authority was devoid of taking ownership

  • Victims of official apathy

    Unprecedented monsoon rainfall has caused massive flood events in urban and rural areas alike

  • Lebensraum in Kashmir

    The tailor-made plot on the part of New Delhi is to influence the ballot outcome of the disputed state

  • Looming dengue outbreak

    Dengue larvae have been breeding on a large scale during the ongoing monsoon season

  • Abuse in Faisalabad

    An influential businessman abducted, tortured and sexually assaulted a medical student

  • Debt quagmire

    The country has accumulated payouts beyond its budgetary capacity

  • Polio martyrs

    Polio vaccinators were regularly being attacked

  • Perils of warfare

    The diplomatic miscalculation by Washington is likely to plunge the region in a conflict

  • Pakistan’s feat

    The first-locally manufactured electric car is an outstanding effort

  • Climate concerns

    UN report estimated Pakistan’s annual climate change-related economic losses as high as $26 billion a year

  • Economic ‘growth’ in 75 years

    Becoming one of the world’s largest economies, this is only because of our unmanageable population growth

  • Astroturf removal

    The national sport of Pakistan, hockey has been in a free fall for decades

  • Celebratory firing

    Independence day ends with the death of countless men, women and children as a result of aerial firing

  • Bonded labour

    Abject poverty, illiteracy and disease have become the fate of many across Sindh

  • Solar initiatives

    The rising cost of fuel imported to generate electricity means high cost for both consumers and the government coffers

  • Usher in a thaw

    PM Shehbaz sounded serene as he voiced for economic reforms, and reiterated his call for a charter of economy

  • Long Live Pakistan!

    Pakistani nation is now 75

  • Plastic ban

    Sindh government has once again initiated plans to enforce ban on the manufacturing, sale and use of plastic bags

  • Frozen Afghan funds

    Afghan economy was already in dire straits even before the Taliban takeover

  • Roughing up bureaucracy

    There is nothing wrong in asserting the writ of the government in public welfare

  • Commonwealth glory

    Pakistan has managed to secure a decent 18th position in the Commonwealth Games 2022

  • Economic hope-line

    The good news is that the rupee is improving against the greenback

  • ‘Partition horrors’ ploy

    “Memory of the struggles and sacrifices of our people”

  • Money in politics

    Reforming the political financing system

  • Gill’s arrest

    He was arrested on charges of sedition and inciting the public against the state

  • Indian oppression persists

    Indian government continues to suppress the basic rights of Muslim Kashmiris, during Muharram

  • Whither food security

    The farmers of Sindh are estimating a loss of more than Rs50b

  • Electricity shortfall

    There is a huge demand and supply deficit

  • Accumulated waste

    The Lahore Waste Management Company has also drawn significant criticism from residents for failing to remove garbage