The Global Organised Crime Index, 2023, rated Pakistan as a high-risk country with low resilience to deal with organised ...
In summer, militants move easily, regroup and attack rural and tribal areas. Winter redu­ces this activity in high-altitude ...
Voters in every democratic autocracy today are realising that their votes have become spent candles, whose light is being ...
Heavy contingents of law-enforcement agencies are deployed at sensitive locations, including the Red Zone, which houses key ...
It is time to adapt or die. Let them do what business people do everywhere else: work and take risks. The writer is a ...
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and acting Leader of the Opposition, Maulana Mufti Mahmood, held ...
The authorities concerned should take notice and remove such graffiti immediately. The contact details are part of the ...
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Cancer registry

THIS refers to the report ‘Pakistan to have cancer registry; NIH bill signed’ (Sep 8). A functional national cancer registry is certainly what the country needs. But, I am only cautiously optimistic ...
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Failed talks

Afghanistan through dialogue, the talks between Islamabad and Kabul in Istanbul have collapsed. According to Pakistani officials, the Afghan Taliban’s stubbornness is to blame for the failure. In ...
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AJK decentralisation

If AJK truly wants to move towards progress and fair governance, it must focus on decentralising its services. People should not have to suffer just to have access to the most basic of services.
For Karachi’s residents, particularly the youth, life has become a relentless struggle against a cascade of institutional failures. The city’s graduates, armed with ambitions and degrees, confront a ...
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Hope with restraint

PAKISTAN’S ongoing economic engagement with Saudi Arabia marks a radical shift in a relationship ...