Editorial

Illusion versus reality Digital technology has already made a significant headway in our society. Smartphones are being used in Pakistan to send and receive messages, access mail, hai

Kamyab Jawan ProgrammeAt a time when the economy is in a pretty bad shape and the number of the unemployed is on the increase, the announcement of a microfinance scheme for the unemployed youn

Thanks to PTI’s bent for loyalists Prime Minister Imran Khan wants docile institutions that would willingly carry out his biddings. He has an inherent dislike for those that defy hi

Pakistan has already been affected The Global Climate Risk Index for 2019 ranks Pakistan as the fifth worst sufferer from the effects of climate change. According to the Index, releas

Clueless police Though Karachi seems to have been brought out of the orgy of target killing and extortion that was the apparent hallmark of the dominance of the MQM, its peace seems o

Why not wait till accused are finally pronounced guilty When the Lahore High Court accepted former Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s request for bail in the Ashiana-i-Iqbal Hou

Another form of persecution Someone’s cup seems to have run over. The frustration which had produced such curbs as preventing a newspaper from circulating in certain areas, preventi

A tough climb ahead So rare is even a minor piece of progress under the PTI that PM’s Finance Adviser Dr Hafeez Shaikh waxed effusive over Moody’s upgradation of Pakistan’s outl

Imran speaks out Prime Minister Imran Khan has come out firmly in support of Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, saying that he has achieved much and urging him to hold a seminar to publicis

Warner’s triple century added insult to injury Prime Minister Imran Khan based an important part of his appeal to his having captained the 1992 national cricket team that won the Cr

Army law amendment Prime Minister Imran Khan has called a meeting of allied parties to devise a strategy to provide a three-year extension to the Army Chief through an amendment in th

And the government’s hypocritical approach towards it Students across the country peacefully marched as part of the ‘student solidarity march’, this past week to have their voic