Editorial

Pakistan cannot sustain a recession, let alone a prolonged depression

There is no room for complacency on other issues even when faced with the bigger health issue of the coronavirus

Economists hold that traders don’t need government permission to lower prices

How does the government see them?

So a new NFC Award will be negotiated 10 years after the last consensus-based award had been announced

Pakistan has one of the world’s highest rates of water use and one of the lowest of productivity

The glass should be seen as half full. After all, the future is not for us to see.

What a waste of time, money — and an opportunity

The need to be safe and cautious has become all the more important now that the countrywide lockdown has been eased

The Foreign Office has, for the umpteenth time, rejected “baseless and inaccurate” claims by India

All such recycled items are exposing people to deadly diseases, including the newly-emerged Covid-19

Pakistan did not meet the WHO’s standard ratios for health staff even in normal circumstances

The life of a journalist seems to be in perpetual peril

A radical event requires radical change

The emergence of coronavirus too could be traced back to the upsetting of biodiversity

The democratisation that the internet has unleashed has simply revealed dangerous ideas never went away

Getting terrorism down to a net-zero situation might be near-impossible, but that doesn’t mean we can let up

The contagion will exist for the time being, and it’s better for us to learn to co-exist with it

Strain of misogyny is the result of our collective failure as a society for letting such crimes be glorified

The unfeeling bureaucracy displays a frigid unconcern when it comes to dealing with the wretched of the earth

Virtual hearing of court cases has become necessary to expedite justice in order to provide relief to litigants

The coronavirus lockdown has descended upon these household maids and servants like something from hell

Any Iranian ‘violations’ are Trump’s fault, first and foremost

The water scarcity is, for the most part, man-made

Wrongdoers found a good opportunity to hide in the confusion between what was official and what was not

If Trump had taken timely action on those reports, the devastation of today would have been preventable.

This only points towards the inability of the leadership to frame a uniform national policy to contain the virus

Healthcare is a vital public issue so effecting changes in it involves careful planning

Leaders that do care about the world all focused on making sure a hypothetical vaccine must be available to everyone

What makes this case so painful is that the money being stolen is literally meant for charity

There are many laws on the statute books, but few are being implemented

The best option for the Bashar al-Assad Regime is to allow the free flow of humanitarian and medical assistance

While the lockdowns have immensely impacted the economy, there are ways to allow the economy to reopen

The decision about UCs and the idea of ‘Tiger Force’ indicate that all is not well

Certain actions and reactions lock rival nations on a course that grows harder and harder to change

As the country is enmeshed in economic insecurity and social issues for the past many years

With thousands of Pakistanis stranded abroad clamoring to return home

The disagreement over the lockdown strategy is turning into a serious confrontation

Fuel prices in Pakistan are still among the lowest in the world for countries that are net importers of oil

The labour world has indeed experienced a great turbulence

In a situation when common people are facing the two equally dangerous prospects, govts need to take the middle way

Taliban were never really at war with the Afghan forces

Plantation programme is a good source of employment

One works to survive and eats in order to work

Restrictions on physical movement to prevent the spread of the coronavirus are impacting both urban and rural areas

What we fear is that, much as it was 80-odd years ago, world powers will refuse to stop a madman until it is too late

Bajwa’s is a much-needed change has no two opinions

Govt finally appears to have noticed that the big guns of the business world are not the only ones affected

If this model has worked in other countries, it can be given a cautious try

The 36-year-old is among a very few women cricketers to have taken 100 wickets and scored 1,000 runs in ODIs.