Editorial

Sugar Enquiry Commission’s scope expandedThe retail price of sugar in the market from December 2018 to February 2020 had increased by Rs 24 per kilogram. The sugar mills owners pocketed more

And respecting the lawOne of the most common features of past and present civilian governments is a propensity to undermine or overlook protocol, procedure and the legality of important and se

A lot of question need to be answeredThere were a number of notes struck by the Karachi air tragedy, all of them discordant and painful. The 99 passengers and eight crew members on board inclu

Fears of a second wave in the offing  The people are paying the price for the government’s politically motivated rather than evidence-based decisions to control the coronavirus. On Friday,

Need to cut one’s coat according to one’s clothWhile tele-addressing the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Covid Action Platform, Prime Minister Imran Khan made out a strong case for debt rel

Ms Wells makes a last attemptOutgoing US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Alice Wells sprang no surprises in a farewell news briefing on Wednesday, but some of the points she made w

While the world fights for its life, the government guns for the oppositionAt one level, it does not make sense. Faced with perhaps the greatest challenge of the country’s existence, in the

Predicated on friendly tiesTwo horrible attacks on May 12, the one inside the maternity ward of a Kabul hospital and the other a suicide bombing on a funeral gathering in Nangarhar province de

In Pakistan smoking is one of the leading causes of avoidable death. According to World Health Organization (WHO) use of tobacco is currently responsible for the death of one in ten grown-ups’ world

State of Pakistan’s science and technologyThe Supreme Court has raised a number of pertinent questions during suo motu hearing on measures taken to control the coronavirus.The Court expr

Earlier consultations with stakeholders could have helpedThat the National Finance Commission has been constituted has been overdue, but it has run into objections from the very outset, with S

The government’s measures for the long haul are lackingThat Prime Minister Imran Khan has told the nation that the coronavirus is here for the long haul is not so much a clarion call as an a