Fast-unfolding climate change crisis
‘Earth is likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade, and nations will need to make an...
Postponement of Elections in Punjab
The Election of Pakistan (ECP) while postponing elections in Punjab maintained that it was doing so in view of the security situation...
The doctrine of necessity and the PDM government
A Letter from Prometheus
As expected, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) did not get financial, administrative, and security support for holding provincial...
The Dark Side of Education
By Peer Mohammad Amir Qureshi
Teachers are the architects of a nation's destiny, entrusted with the formidable task of shaping and guiding the...
Choking on Our Plates
Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan, is facing a major environmental issue of air pollution, with the hotel industry being a major...
Road to nowhere
Repeated statements by American US politicians about the political situation in Pakistan; specifically veteran strategist Zalmay Khalilzad, have reinforced a perception on...
Credibility of the higher judiciary
This time not any sundry audio or video leak but an issued video has initiated the turbulence bringing into question the conduct...
Islamophobia — a conspiracy
Some things are simply bad but some are horrifically worst; successful are only those who face the worst with undefeatable determination and...
India helps Bangladesh meet energy needs
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina Wajid inaugurated a 131.5-kilometre-long India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline (IBFPL) from Siliguri in...
The writ of the state
AT PENPOINT
The state might claim to have won, for the week-long confrontation between PTI chief Imran Khan and the state machinery ended...
Heatwave precautionary measures
Unprecedented heavy rains and flash floods in the rivers last year had hit almost one-third of Pakistan in Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and...
Brain drain in Pakistan: a serious concern
According to the UN Human Development Reports, 64 percent of the population of Pakistan (some 148.1 million out of 241.4 million) is...
Re-colonization of Pakistan
On August 14, 1947 a new nation was carved out from the Indian Sub-continent, then a British Colony. Father of the Nation...
ICC, War Crimes & Challenges
Under the Geneva Convention, certain rules of war have been framed to protect human beings from heinous crimes. The Geneva Convention, along...
China and US competition for primacy in the Indo-Pacific
China seeks to replace the USA as the most influential nation in the Indo-Pacific region. This strategic goal may have been an...