Editorial

The health secretary admitted that the government has access to only 55 per cent of Tharparkar.

Everyone in govt appears to be concerned with getting through one year, hardly anyone gives any thought to next year.

The condition of womenfolk is deplorable in our society and improving their condition should take our time and effort.

There are currently seven million children out of school who should be in it, the second-highest figure in the world.

Unfortunately, the commerce minister make absolutely no mention of granting MFN status to India in his speech.

What is important right now is to ensure that Hindus across Sindh are able to follow their beliefs without any fear.

Pakistan’s industrial elite is willing to let entire country live in darkness so long as their factories keep humming.

It is commendable that the army — on the face of it — did not attempt to step in to try and stymie the process.

Maybe it is time we competed with India to attain a higher ranking on development indices.

We should know the difference between who our true heroes are and who are not.

Measures like clearing circular debt using five-year bonds and then raising electricity bills is not called a solution

It may not be immediately apparent, but Pakistan actually has enough installed capacity to meet summer surge in demand

We continue to do our job of telling the truth despite fear for our lives.

Unless the government releases the funding, there is a real risk that National TB Control Programme will collapse.

Let there be no hangings in 2014 and the hanging hiatus be converted into abolition.

Islamabad and Tehran must do everything possible to placate each other’s grievances and suspicions.

Six months later, Sindh Witness Protection Act 2013 is nothing more than a piece of paper.

Although peace process has made unprecedented progress, government must not let excitement cloud extreme caution.

The devolution of budgets to the provinces has done nothing to improve the national map of education.

Banning of locals from supporting international teams deserves some sort of rebuke or punitive action by ICC.

Sherani needs to understand that parliament is precisely the place where such matters must be discussed.

No officer transferred out of the Punjab government is permitted to retain either staff or official vehicles.

The murder of a 45-year-old LHW is just another reminder of how vulnerable these essential health workers are.

We welcome PM’s address at Hague where he aired Pakistan’s legitimate demand for access to civil nuclear technology.

Bureaucrats are known to watch over their interest and work behind the scenes to influence induction to key posts.

Nobody doubts that mass-transit in our cities is the need of the hour. Many doubt how we are going about the job.

Free speech always finds a way of being heard, whether governments like it or not.

In the case of Gwadar Port, it appears that misappropriation of funds have played a key role in rising cost of project

Atrocities of jirgas are only addressable by negating the very existence of a parallel judicial system.

Sindh government appears to be taking a key step towards bringing brick kiln workers into the social safety net.

Geopolitical tectonics invariably move exceeding slow, but events in Crimea in last 3 months represent seismic shift.

Welcome as it is, there must be lingering concern about how quickly Punjab government will move to act on the new Bill

Neither condolences nor an investigation is likely to do anything to mitigate the instances of accidents such as this.

He will be best remembered as a satirist, lambasting in somewhat ribald terms the society he lived in.

The fact is that being a journalist in Pakistan is becoming increasingly difficult by the day.

For now, on the face of it, it seems the prime minister has the military’s support on the formation of NID.

Sindh will do well to prove its administration’s democratic credentials by passing on authority to the grassroot units

Officials holding portfolios of culture must do more to secure designs of cultural elements.

The government is trying to collect more taxes from an industry it knows it can squeeze.

Restricting the wheat support price is not a good way to fix flaws with the government’s agriculture policy.

There is legislation to cover the industrial employment of children, but none to cover ordinary households.

Saudi Arabia had provided $1.5 billion to shore up Pakistan’s fast-depleting foreign exchange reserves.

We would warmly welcome filtering so long as filtering process was not a further encroachment on freedom of speech.

Whatever the instigation, it does not justify torching of a place of worship or properties owned by Hindus.

Foreign investors are far more likely to invest in the country if interest rates are lowered, not raised.

Private Pakistani and non-Chinese investors are investing in expanding power production in Pakistan.

It is entirely possible that Pakistan is going to find itself quarantined from the rest of the world in coming weeks.

Law-enforcement agencies should focus on improving investigation & gathering evidence which can stand court scrutiny.

Only way such acts will stop is if we can persuade people to think differently; accept woman's right to choice.

There is no confirmation on whether trade in food and industrial goods will be liberalised between the two neighbours.