Hybrid worries

Once elected office is reduced to theatre, useful only for maintaining appearances, it becomes a stage for managing perceptions rather than exercising power.

Updated 13 Jul, 2025 09:06am

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Bitter taste

THE government’s plan to import 350,000 tonnes of sugar, months after allowing the export of more than twice that...

Published 13 Jul, 2025 08:23am

No red lines

THE US’ move to sanction Francesca Albanese, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied...

Published 13 Jul, 2025 08:22am

Gruesome murders

Long-term security can only be achieved when there is equitable development across Balochistan.

Updated 12 Jul, 2025 09:53am

Solar policy

SOLAR net metering reforms are back in the limelight. On Thursday, Power Minister Awais Leghari announced that he...

Published 12 Jul, 2025 06:35am

New hope

EDUCATION shapes the destiny of a nation. Sadly, Pakistan’s public education sector is experiencing a national...

Published 12 Jul, 2025 06:35am

PIA privatisation

While it does give the privatisation authorities a much-needed head-start, it will not be sustainable unless preceded by policy and regulatory reforms.

Updated 11 Jul, 2025 08:32am

Beyond expectations

THESE are tough times, but the country is lucky enough to still be considered home by a large expatriate workforce,...

Published 11 Jul, 2025 05:27am

Train in vain

TALK of ‘revival’ of the long-dead Karachi Circular Railway has turned into a running joke for denizens of this...

Published 11 Jul, 2025 05:27am

No negotiations

IT seems like the appeal from Kot Lakhpat Jail has fallen on deaf ears. “[…] The time for negotiations has...

Published 10 Jul, 2025 07:45am

Speech policing

Sweeping accusations have once more exposed just how broadly and arbitrarily Peca is being applied.

Updated 10 Jul, 2025 10:27am

Continued detention

THE continued detention of BYC head Mahrang Baloch and five other activists indicates that the state is uninterested...

Published 10 Jul, 2025 07:44am

Killing fields

Israeli state seeks to ethnically cleanse the occupied territories of their Palestinian inhabitants, and forever obstruct the chances of a viable Palestinian state.

Updated 09 Jul, 2025 09:36am

Crypto rush

STEP by step, Pakistan is, at least on paper, moving closer to recognising, adopting and regulating cryptocurrencies...

Published 09 Jul, 2025 06:12am

Another plan

FAILING to plan is planning to fail, as the old saying goes. This seems to have occurred in the case of Karachi, a...

Published 09 Jul, 2025 06:12am

Green tokenism

Climate decisions must be based on facts, not politics — guided by independent science and open to public scrutiny.

Updated 08 Jul, 2025 08:16am

Cotton decline

PAKISTAN’S cotton economy is in a crisis. Production has fallen from a peak of 14m bales 10 years ago to 5.5m ...

Published 08 Jul, 2025 05:04am

Pet problems

PAKISTANIS’ obsession with exotic pets keeps ending in tragedy. Incidents like the recent lion attack in a Lahore...

Published 08 Jul, 2025 05:04am

No preparedness

With frequency of calamitous weather events increasing, the country cannot afford to be in denial after every tragedy.

Updated 06 Jul, 2025 08:57am

Saarc’s future

South Asia’s vast potential cannot be held hostage forever by India.

Updated 07 Jul, 2025 07:27am

PSB’s waning authority

IT has been two decades since the National Sports Policy was introduced but its implementation leaves much to be...

Published 06 Jul, 2025 07:31am

Extreme step

Legal experts have termed the move devoid of logic and an extreme measure.

Updated 05 Jul, 2025 09:50am

Russian recognition

NEARLY four years after the Afghan Taliban marched into Kabul, Russia has become the first country to recognise the...

Published 05 Jul, 2025 05:16am

Building collapse

Why has the Sindh Building Control Authority been so helpless in enforcing its writ?

Updated 05 Jul, 2025 01:21pm

Restraint needed

It should be borne in mind that the majority of voters in KP voted the PTI into power, and the electorate’s choice should not be trivialised.

Updated 04 Jul, 2025 08:35am

Civil strangulation

THE HRCP has sounded the alarm about the increasingly shrinking space in which it is allowed to function. In a...

Published 04 Jul, 2025 06:18am

Unabated violence

SEVERAL acts of terrorist violence over the past couple of days illustrate the grave threat militant groups continue...

Published 04 Jul, 2025 06:18am

Letter from jail

If space for reconciliation remains, both the government and PTI must seize it.

Updated 03 Jul, 2025 01:40pm

Forced to fly solo

ALREADY left reeling by the abrupt, sweeping rollback of American development aid under President Donald Trump, the...

Published 03 Jul, 2025 08:27am

UN paralysis

ALTHOUGH tens of thousands of people in Gaza have been slaughtered and starved by Israel, the UN has been unable to...

Published 03 Jul, 2025 08:26am

ECP reshuffle

Abandoning the formula of a neutral, mutually acceptable CEC would be a serious blow to Pakistan’s democratic progress.

Updated 02 Jul, 2025 11:35am

Regional partners

SENIOR officials from Pakistan, China and Bangladesh met in the Chinese city of Kunming recently to test the waters...

Published 02 Jul, 2025 05:57am

Dengue season

WITH the monsoon season underway in Pakistan, the threat of another dengue outbreak hangs over us. The warning signs...

Published 02 Jul, 2025 05:57am

Terrorist threat

It should be remembered that a recent UN report very clearly stated that Afghan Taliban continue their support for TTP.

Updated 01 Jul, 2025 09:29am

PTI in disarray

TIME has not been kind to the PTI and the party paints a sorry picture today. Despite putting up a brave front for...

Published 01 Jul, 2025 05:01am