Heading for elections?

The Election Commission of Pakistan is still neither giving an election date itself, nor allowing anyone else to do so, but it...

Economy going beyond caretakers’ control

Pakistan power consumers, which means everyone, have been screaming because of agonisingly high power bills. They received another shock on Monday, as...

Refugees’ plight

As you read this, a spate of arrests and detentions is being carried out against Afghan refugees across the country. And, as...

Oil price conundrum

As expected, fuel prices came down, something which members of the caretaker Cabinet had been boasting about as if it was the...

Suicide blasts on Eid Milad

The two blasts in Mastung, Balochistan, and Hangu, KP, on Eid Miladun Nabi, indicate that the terrorist threat to Pakistan that escalated...

Review petition commences

Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr Justice Fez Isa, headed the bench which began hearing of the review petitions against the judgement, which...

Off to the World Cup

The Pakistan team has arrived in Hyderabad, India, for the World Cup, and its first matches on Indian soil in a long...

Sweden ablaze again

There is a certain sense of déjà vu. However, instead of a copy of the Holy Quran, a mosque was burnt, in...

He’s back

He’s back. Close to five months under illegal incarceration, anchorperson and YouTuber Imran Riaz Khan is finally back with his loved ones....

The blind leading the blind

An injection made directly into the eyes of diabetes patients has led to the blinding of 12, and damage to the eyesight...

Misplaced optimism

Caretaker Commerce and IIndustries Minister Gohar Ejaz  has expressed the view that the consumer could ‘expect good news on October 1’ with...

Placing blame on the wrong reasons

The ease with which the law-enforcing agencies, starting with the police, try to deflect blame for increasing crime by blaming RAW, does...

The state of the PML(N)

That the Election Commission has inched a little closer to holding elections by deciding that preliminary delimitations will be published on September...

ECP needs to act

The failure of the Election Commission of Pakistan to hold elections within the constitutionally mandated 90-period has created a situation of confusion...

India exposed

India and Canada have expelled a diplomat apiece, as the latter accused the former of being behind the assassination of separatist leader...