Free from the gag
As difficult as it would seem, the world media houses have been facing unnecessary and undue gag order tactics from the powers that be....
Industrial pollution
Through the columns of your esteemed newspaper I wish to draw the attention of our industrialists in general and our government in particular about...
PBC urges SC to review ruling over Justice Isa
ISLAMABAD: Expressing grave concern over the top court’s recent ruling that one of its judges, Justice Qazi Faez Isa, should restrain himself from sitting...
SC directs for administering Katas Raj temple in two weeks
ISLAMABAD: While issuing directives to the federation to administer Katas Raj Temple after taking its management from Punjab government and handing over to Evacuee...
CPEC Authority to undertake more projects in Faisalabad: Bajwa
FAISALABAD: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority Chairman Lt Gen (r) Asim Saleem Bajwa on Monday said that the CPEC Authority would undertake more projects...
First polio case of 2021 confirmed in Qilla Abdullah
CHAMAN: With Pakistan struggling to eradicate the crippling disease, the first polio case of the year 2021 was confirmed in Balochistan’s Qilla Abdullah district...
Pakistan ready to promote blue economy to benefit humanity: FM
KARACHI: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan is ready to cooperate and collaborate with other friendly nations and partners around the...
PTI’s growing internal bickering, deadlock with MQM-P forces PM to review Senate tickets
ISLAMABAD: Internal bickering and criticism by the leaders of ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has forced Prime Minister Imran Khan to once again review the...
The most enduring myth of all
Ask any rationalist about the history of religion and chances are that he will tell you, as if it were a fact, that it...
Full circle
I was on vacation in Lahore at my parents’ house. It was 9 March 2007 and on TV a great drama was unfolding. President...
Spreading disinformation about CPEC
When during the regime of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan initiated the construction of Gwadar deep-seaport in Balochistan province in March 2002 with Chinese...
Punjab bureaucracy under fire again
The PTI leadership’s claims about being the guardian of merit, good governance and transparency started unraveling within months of its coming to power. Long...
Trump’s acquittal
Former US President Donald Trump now holds the dishonorable distinction of being twice impeached by the House of Representatives and both times securing an...
No supply agreement with any hospital, says exclusive distributor of Sputnik vaccine
ISLAMABAD: The exclusive distributor of the Sputnik V vaccine in the country, Ali Gohar Pharmaceuticals Pvt, says it has not entered into a supply...
Election commission must devise a polling scheme: CJP
The Supreme Court (SC) summoned the chief election commissioner (CEC) and other members of the election commission, wherein the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP)...