The Tezgam tragedy
No effort to put railways on track
Keeping in view the number of casualties, the Liaquatpur incident is the third biggest disaster in Pakistan...
Lahore’s air pollution
Being ranked second in the world no compliment
Being the world’s second most polluted city in the world should be cause for concern for...
Why are we that Xenophobic?
Learning to welcome foreigners is key to success
By: Muniba Zaman
Talk to some people in private gatherings, and you would hear such murmurings as...
Neither permitted nor prohibited
Laws prohibit child labour, but are not implemented
By: Nazish Hassan Wazir
“I want to remain with unrequited suffering.”– Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
The summer sun...
Digital ways of money laundering
How electronics are making it easier for the corrupt
By: SHAHID ILYAS KHAN
Money laundering is the process of making illegally-gained proceeds appear legal and clean....
PTI’s authoritarian streak
Disregard for constitution and laws
The PTI government continues to take actions in violation of the Constitution and law. In August President Arif Alvi...
The other border this time
Pakistan spreading itself too thin
A skirmish on the Pak-Afghan border in Chitral district has left five civilians and six soldiers hurt on the...
Crisis of credibility for mainstream media
Long live journalism!
By: Nava Thakuria
In the eraof the World Wide Web, where consumers become used to various free internet-providing services, the news itself...
Present times– relevant thoughts
Let Imran Khan be himself
Despite many temptations to do so, I exercise extreme restraint to not comment politically or even semi-politically. But here...
Observance of Black Day
The Kashmiris will never give up
In the backdrop of the revocation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution which ended the...
How will the Azadi march end?
The PTI has goose bumps
As the Azadi March led by the JUI-F and owned by eight other opposition parties enters Punjab the PTI government...
Traders fed up
Easing in reforms a better route to take
The PTI government’s tax reform initiatives have been largely unpopular across all industries as is the...
How difficult is the Quran?
And what one requires for its understanding
Is Quran a difficult book to understand? Of course, the words ‘easy’ and ‘difficult’ are relative, so...
A commodity called education
And how it is bought, sold and used for the greater stratification of society
To buy, sell, bag profits, and possess novelty is...
The revolution will be streamed online
Predicting preferences effectively
By Amna Khan
Predicting the unpredictable, that’s what this new digital world is about. Predicting our desires, needs and wants even before...
Imran Khan and political opponents
Setting atrocious precedents
Seven days in hospital with multiple life-threatening ailments, Nawaz Sharif’s life continues to hang by a thread. Fearing the possible repercussions...
