Unsung heroes fight a dread disease
The PEC is prominent in cancer treatment
By Muhammad Aftab Alam
History is replete with heroic acts of humans who devoted their lives for their...
Judging without fear and favour
The references need decisions to pull the country out
Nisaar main teri galiyon peh ai watan, keh jahan
Chali hai rasm keh koi na sar...
Lions under the throne?
At Penpoint
How recent and past events shaped the debate around role of judges
The Supreme Judicial Council has held a preliminary hearing in the...
India is the major hitch in SCO success
India’s compulsions made spoil the SCO
By Azhar Azam
The two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit ended in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek last Friday amid...
‘Imran Khan’s relations turn sour with Pakistan Army Chief over FATF’
Indian media lies about Imran’s relations with General Bajwa
Pakistan’s detractors would love to see relations between Imran Khan and the Chief of Army...
Commission should have a wider scope
Tracing funny money is not easy
Our prime minister intends to constitute an enquiry commission to look into ballooning of debt burden over the...
Nuisance minefields of PML-N
The government may have to induct outsiders
In 1981, Mian Nawaz Sharif was inducted as Finance Minister in the Punjab Government. According to the...
The economy can be fixed
A rich country that is being mismanaged
By Maham Fatima
Since its independence in 1947. Pakistsn hass been facing a financial crisis. The country’s political...
Transgender inclusivity: What are we missing?
Current reforms should be updated
By Abdul Wahid Qureshi
The current transgender reforms initiative could be termed as one the most successful of its type...
Bureaucratic privileges during an austerity drive
How bureaucrats retain their privileges
The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since long remained the stage for international conspiracies, politics and natural calamities. At one...
Reality check on state of economy
Remedying the errors of the past
For sustained economic growth it is imperative for any economy to achieve macroeconomic stability. Unfortunately that element has...
Let’s get real about Pak-Russia relations
Don’t be fooled by the informal exchange of pleasantries
The brief but relatively pleasant interactions between Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan and his Russian...
True victims of the system
The system ‘Kaptaan’ and his ilk came to change has changed them
Budget blues, inflation skyrocketing, the number of perished promises piling up, all...
Divine justice
An incoherent philosophy
Most Pakistanis are Muslims by faith, spiritual by default. Superstition appears as spiritualism to the uninitiated. The conceptual uniqueness of unity...
Is Muslims’ concept of God the god-of-the-gaps?
Addressing an oft-repeated criticism
There’s a view of God and religion that has traditionally been very popular among anthropologists. It goes something like this:...
Missed opportunities: on economic survey and budget
Sadly, there is not much difference in the quality of economic survey for 2018/19, from that of the past. Indeed, an opportunity was missed...
The balancing victim
The Sibtain Khan case is more complicated than it seems
NAB spent a considerably busy past couple of days. With the budget being unveiled,...
