Pakistan is no more largely an agricultural, rural society, where landowners hold sway over the economic, social and political space. Society has...
The utilisation statistics of the Punjab development budget tell the same old story of how education and health are neglected for the sake of...
The strategic ties between India and the US are on the rise and are likely to have implications for Pakistan’s security and strategic...
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari are trying to restore the PPP’s political standing in Punjab. While Bilawal is taking care of the...
A section of the security establishment has come out of its denial mode about the presence of Isis/Daesh in Pakistan and started recognising the...
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is largely viewed as a significant Chinese investment that will infuse a new life into Pakistan’s...
The brutal torture of Tayyaba, a 10-year-old housemaid, in Islamabad has triggered the advocacy of child rights in the media and higher judiciary....
Islamabad is trying to balance its act in Afghanistan with Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa reaching out to the Kabul leadership twice after...
Unnerved by the latest round of Kashmiri intifada, New Delhi has stepped up military and non-military aggressive measures against the Kashmiri...
The death toll of civilian and military casualties in cross-border firing along the Line of Control is on the rise. The casualties and injuries...
Winters traditionally begin with foggy days in the plains of Punjab but the fog that enveloped Lahore on November 2 was unprecedented. The smoky...
Exploitation of limestone in the Salt Range for the manufacturing of cement has become a nightmare for the local population. The fast depletion and...
The economic policies adopted by our self-serving elite have spawned a vicious cycle of low levels of economic growth, socio-economic inequality and...
Lahore’s sewerage-cum-drainage system was built nearly 80 years ago for a small city with a population of a few hundred thousand....
Some recent credible investigations by the Punjab government into the quality of locally-manufactured drugs show that those people who keep...
While an array of foreign and domestic forces are involved in fomenting terrorism in Pakistan, illegal movement at the Pak-Afghan border and the...
It seems that in the eyes of the National Data Registration Authority , every man in Pakistan is a suspected alien until he proves it otherwise. I...
Punjab is suffering under the burden of Lahore. While around 10 percent of the province’s 101 million people live in Lahore, 30-40 percent of...
The Punjab government presents its true annual budget at the end of a fiscal year. What it brandishes at the year’s beginning gives only a...
With every passing day, destruction of the beautiful Margalla Hills goes on with grave implications for the climate and landscape of Islamabad. For...
Natural water springs and lakes in Punjab are suffering from environmental degradation due to human activity and and neglect. While government...
Lahore’s metro-train project is underway, raising several controversies regarding the displacement of people and threat to heritage. More than...
The way we are recklessly destroying our water resources can be seen in the rivers flowing through our cities where they have turned into open...
During the first nine months of FY 2015-16, the Punjab government utilised only around Rs189.8 billion out of a total development outlay of Rs369.1...
With almost half of the civil work completed on the intercity mass transit rail system, aka the Orange Line, in Lahore, there is little use of...
The Punjab police’s failure to apprehend the outlaws in the Indus riverine area, and the subsequent army action that led to the surrender of...
Public-sector water filtration plants, which are considered a main source of safe drinking water for the general public in many parts of the...
During the last four years, thousands of Christians have left Pakistan to seek asylum in Thailand from where media reports of their plight in...
Terrorism in Pakistan has become quite complex; the military operations in the north-western tribal belt did not fully eliminate militants but...
As if emissions of hazardous gases and particles from vehicles and industries were not enough to poison the air we breathe, our state plans to load...
Elimination of sectarian militants and the campaign against their networks in recent months create the impression that sectarian militancy will soon...
Elimination of sectarian militants and the campaign against their networks in recent months create the impression that sectarian militancy will soon...
Even after almost three years in office, the present government has not taken a single step for improving the slow-moving judicial system that has...
According to the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association , around 30 percent of the country’s textile units shut down this cotton season owing...
It is the standard practice of our rulers that in areas in which they have little interest, they launch a very small project with a massive...
Eleven years have passed since Pakistan signed and ratified the World Health Organisations’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2004 but...
Having miserably failed to achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals , Pakistan made yet another commitment by signing up to the...
The 2015 local bodies elections in Sindh have reinforced the urban-rural ethnic divide: the big cities falling to the MQM and rural Sindh to the...
A few miles in the north of Jhelum city a chipboard factory spread over acres lies gutted to ashes. Five homes of the factory staff stand deserted,...
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the chief ministers of the four provinces were to attend the Population Summit in Islamabad on November 5-6, but...
The recent sectarian killings of over 35 people in the Bolan district and Shikarpur display the resilience of terrorist groups despite the fact that...
The settlement of the Kashmir dispute may be uncertain, but seven years of trade across the Line of Control has united the people of Jammu and...
Control on tobacco smoking is a major preventive health issue in our country as it is a major cause of fatal diseases such as cancer and heart and...
The capacity of terrorists to strike in any part of the country exposes our abiding vulnerability mainly arising from, among other things,...
If history is any guide, short cuts are not helpful in fighting corruption. From Gen Ayub Khan’s ABDO to Gen Pervez Musharraf’s NAB, each burst...
While visiting a friend who teaches Urdu at the Government College, Gulberg in Lahore, I saw more than 180 students of the intermediate level...
The Sahiwal power project, which will burn six million metric tonnes of coal each year – posing grave environmental risks to the soil, water and...
At least one million people in Lahore are using unsafe drinking water contaminated with different pollutants including arsenic if we take into...
Lahore is fortunate that the Punjab government last month abandoned its plan of setting up a small coal-fired power station near the BRB Canal...
