Virus violence
Violence, it seems, is in sync with the Covid-19 situation. As the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to spread at a faster pace, violence is...
Saudi Arabia seeks religious reset as clerical power wanes
Muezzins issuing high-decibel calls to prayer have long been part of Saudi identity, but a crackdown on mosque loudspeakers is among contentious reforms seeking...
Street crime
On Friday (June 11), the director of Karachi’s Usman Institute of Technology (UIT), Dr Zahir Ali Syed, was shot dead by armed robbers. According...
Iran, world powers adjourn nuclear talks, resumption date unclear
Negotiators for Iran and six world powers on Sunday adjourned talks on reviving their 2015 nuclear deal and return to their respective capitals for...
Balance to be created among farmer, consumer, industry: Jamshed Cheema
LAHORE: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Food Security Jamshed Iqbal Cheema on Sunday said that under 'Prime Minister's Agriculture Transformation Plan' balance would...
Pakistan part of solution for Afghanistan, not problem: UN envoy
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations' Special Envoy for Afghanistan Thomas Nicholson has said that Pakistan is not part of the problem, rather it is part...
Vaccine shortage another proof of govt’s incompetence: Shehbaz
LAHORE: Lashing out at the government, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday expressed severe concerns over non-availability of Covid-19 vaccine in various...
Remembering Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s Legacy
Fourteen years after the martyrdom of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, “Zinda hai BB, zinda hai” still echoes in political rallies and every day, in the...
Pakistan Today
Today, a culture of insatiability and a shortfall of community-mindedness overrun Pakistani society. Pakistan's short history as a nation has been extremely fierce. It...
G7 Summit 2021: more talk than action
‘Boris Johnson went into this weekend’s G7 summit promising to “vaccinate the world”. But by Sunday night it was clear that even the much...
Neglecting agriculture
The concerns of the people were faithfully depicted in the Budget discussion in the National Assembly, as members, many of whom were content to...
A wider problem
The news is unfortunately all too familiar. A cleric in a madressah sexually assaults one of his students, the matter comes somehow into the...
PMD forecast pre-monsoon rains in Sindh, Punjab, GB and Kashmir
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Meteorological Department on Sunday forecast rainfall with wind and thunderstorm in eastern parts of Sindh, Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir.
The weather will remain...
Youth dies of alleged police torture in Dadu
DADU: Taking notice of the death of a youth in police custody, the SSP Jamshoro suspended six policemen, including the SHO, on Sunday.
According to...
Mother of three burnt alive by in-laws in Lahore
LAHORE: A woman, mother of three, was burnt to death by her in-laws when they doused her with petrol in Harbanspura, Lahore, and set...