Editorial

Religious tourism market contributes around 40 per cent to revenues generated by international tourism every year

Punjab announced its Rs1.681 trillion budget on June 13

On June 12 Afghan forces opened fire at Torkham crossing and on June 14, Pakistani Major Jawad succumbed to his wounds

A Hindu octogenarian was beaten by a police constable in Hayat Pitafi, a remote village in Ghotki district

No Balochistan MPA can cite a single scheme since that has increased state revenue or provided jobs for local people

The carnage at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, is the worst incident fatality-wise in American history

A mother of two young children took their lives and then committed suicide

Experts say government has tried to use the prospect of becoming an OECD signatory as an excuse to get laws passed

Danger now is that the PTI will once again lead its troops into the sterile wilderness of dharna politics

WB and other donors continue to pledge money, but that doesn’t translate into a general uplift of living standards

The Mansoor incident appears to also be prompting a reassessment of bilateral relations with the US more generally

During the Senate proceedings of June 9, the alarming increase in honour killings were discussed at length

Infrastructure of Pakistan, the physical veins and arteries that keep people and the economy moving, is old & decaying

Weak enforcement lies at the heart of this rot at the core of the apple of state

The Test series against England is all set to provide a huge challenge for a Pakistani side

Hillary Clinton has won another set of primary elections and it is clear she cannot be overtaken by Bernie Sanders

One must note that Dr Shireen Mazari was criticised not for her actions but for her appearance and voice

Lal Chand Malhi of PTI says Hindu girls are abducted and converted every day

Sindh government only spent 53 per cent of the funds released under the provincial annual development programme

China is saying that if India is to be offered “exceptions” and be allowed to join the NSG, then so should Pakistan

A young woman in Murree was tortured and set on fire for refusing a marriage proposal

It is the weather that is the source of the catastrophic floods in recent years

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