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Thursday November 21, 2024
Editorial Board

  • November 21, 2024

    Empowering fisherwomen

    Fisherfolk community has long been sidelined, their voices drowned by clamour of more powerful actors

  • November 21, 2024

    More attacks

    Earlier this month, 27 people were martyred and 40 injured in suicide explosion at Quetta’s railway station

  • November 20, 2024

    Beware the superbug

    Medical experts estimate that global deaths attributable to AMR could reach 2 million in 2050

  • November 20, 2024

    G20 promises

    G20 leaders met to address global challenges and crises and promote strong, sustainable, and inclusive growth

  • November 19, 2024

    Endemic abuse

    Day aims to affirm need to eliminate child sexual exploitation, abuse and violence

  • November 19, 2024

    PTI’s leadership crisis

    Chief Minister House Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has become centre of PTI’s political activities

  • November 18, 2024

    Bureaucracy 2.0

    Reforms aimed to address critical deficiencies in how bureaucrats are recruited, trained, and promoted

  • November 18, 2024

    Agriculture’s turn

    IMF’s unanticipated drop-in to Pakistan from November 12 to 15 did not end with mini-budget many had feared

  • November 17, 2024

    One hundred deaths later

    Victim in this case worked at a factory in the SITE Area, and was a father of three

  • November 17, 2024

    Ctrl+Alt+Block?

    Repercussions of this short-sighted move have been immediate and far-reaching

  • November 16, 2024

    Coalition politics

    Bilawal's criticism on federal government has laid bare uneasy relationship between PML-N-led coalition and PPP

  • November 15, 2024

    Our diabetes epidemic

    Many diabetics in Pakistan do not get treatment they need, due to combination of financial pressures

  • November 15, 2024

    Leaping without a safety net

    Imran Khan asks supporters to converge on Islamabad on November 24, calling it “final call” to oppose govt

  • November 14, 2024

    Constitutional benches

    Dissenting voices reflect complexity of balancing judicial independence with institutional reforms

  • November 14, 2024

    The rich don’t care

    News on climate front is not great in any case and glacial melting in Pakistan, for example, is serious concern

  • November 13, 2024

    Cheating ‘culture’

    While cheating is certainly at heart of problem, it is not only factor driving MDCAT controversy

  • November 13, 2024

    Virtual, Private, Not-working

    Country’s VPN registration process began in 2010 and 20,500 VPNs have been successfully registered

  • November 12, 2024

    India’s petty refusal

    Thankfully, government and local sports bodies are not taking India’s bullying behaviour lying down

  • November 11, 2024

    Climate despair

    Lahore is once again cloaked in smog and at the top of the world’s most polluted cities rankings

  • November 11, 2024

    Correcting course

    IMF team will probably press the government for a mini-budget

  • November 10, 2024

    Ban – not the answer

    Banning these platforms outright is blunt instrument that may do more harm than good

  • November 10, 2024

    Terror and tragedy

    Baloch Liberation Army claims responsibility, adding this attack to province’s unending tally of violence

  • November 09, 2024

    Still blocked

    Issue was attributed to fault in undersea cable, an excuse Pakistanis are by now familiar with and mostly don't buy

  • November 09, 2024

    Call for autonomy

    Under Article 370, Occupied Kashmir had enjoyed unique constitutional protections

  • November 08, 2024

    Skilled exodus

    Govt estimates show one million skilled workers left Pakistan over past three years, with 900,000 leaving country in 2023 alone

  • November 07, 2024

    Climate challenge

    Thankfully, there are signs that the government is placing climate change as top priority

  • November 07, 2024

    Trump is back

    Having lost the presidency to Joe Biden in 2020, Trump has staged a remarkable comeback

  • November 06, 2024

    Reforms or expediency?

    The situation is further complicated by the recent internal discord within the SC itself

  • November 05, 2024

    A deeper cut

    On Monday, SBP logged its deepest rate cut yet, slashing policy rate by 250 basis points to 15.0 per cent

  • November 04, 2024

    Gasping for air

    AQI levels soar past 1,000 and peaking at staggering 1,194, making Lahore one of most polluted cities in world

  • November 04, 2024

    ATA amendment

    Vague criteria and lack of checks effectively create a legal pathway for arbitrary detention

  • November 03, 2024

    Digital dominoes

    Nonetheless, the damage was done – anger and fear spread like wildfire, leaving behind a trail of unrest and loss

  • November 02, 2024

    Mastung attack

    The fallout from this attack highlights a broader crisis that has persisted for far too long

  • November 02, 2024

    Privatisation or punchline?

    Since June, the government had pre-qualified six groups to participate in the bidding

  • November 01, 2024

    AI for the future

    AI will not deliver on its potential unless we cultivate a capable workforce, with robust foundational support

  • November 01, 2024

    Toxic politics

    Real leaders promote discourse over discord, setting a standard for their followers

  • October 31, 2024

    Climate diplomacy

    Rising air pollution alone said to have shortened life expectancy by over five years per person across the region

  • October 30, 2024

    A rich man’s world

    Their luxury yachts add carbon emissions equivalent to what the average person produces in 860 years

  • October 30, 2024

    Time for stability

    During full-court meeting chaired by CJP Yahya Afridi, discussions centred on backlog reduction

  • October 29, 2024

    Trade ties

    FinMin Aurangzeb’s remarks about trading with neighbours, echo a perspective that Pakistan can not ignore