Blog Layout Three

Trilateral rail link PAKISTAN has long been striving for greater surface connectivity via rail and road routes to boost trade, …

Shrinking spaces OF late, an uptick in incidents tied to religious intolerance has reignited concerns regarding the state of minorities’ …

Hockey hopes A HOME boost could well prove the tonic Pakistan need to make it back to the Olympics hockey …

Threat from AI? IT has been just months since generative artificial intelligence exploded in the public imagination with the arrival …

Killer loan sharks WITH many working- and middle-class families battling high inflation and/or unemployment, people are taking desperate measures. Amongst …

Unliveable city KARACHI makes it to the news for all the wrong reasons, with high crime, crumbling infrastructure and pollution …

Historical failings AWAY from the media’s obsessive limelight on domestic politics, a three-day international symposium, organised to shine a spotlight …

Maternal mortality SOME dismal data should force us to question ourselves: for how long will Pakistan’s mothers die to give …

Citizens’ despair MUST our state be driven to action only after it has forced desperate citizens to grovel for something …

Drugged drone IT seems we keep pace with avant-garde methods to circulate evil. Having used every other way on land …

Israeli sojourn SEVERAL quarters have been testing the waters over the years to gauge the public reaction to possible ties …

Dirty water A GASTROENTERITIS outbreak in a village located in Karachi’s Malir area underscores the major hazards dirty water poses …

Fixed matches MUCH like the rug was pulled from under the PTI-led government in Azad Kashmir, the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly now …

Crimes of sardars EVEN though most of Pakistan is a stranger to human rights, Balochistan is particularly dispossessed. With scores …

Unwelcome babies TO be born unwanted and abandoned to a risky future is the worst fate for a new life. …

Fake encounters IT is time our institutions acknowledged so-called police encounters as murders committed by men in uniform. A report …

Heritage economy THE tide may be turning on Sindh’s syncretic heritage. But its fortunes will be difficult to change if …

Football foibles THE deficiencies have been exposed. Our national football team losing all six matches they played in June underscores …