The government should withdraw from the wheat trade gradually, replacing the existing market support mechanism with an effective new one over the next several years.

THE year’s fourth polio drive has kicked off across Pakistan, with the aim to immunise more than 24m children ...

Yet the struggle to secure a living wage — and decent working conditions — for the toiling masses must continue.

AS we observe the Labour Day today (May 1), imagine a world without the tireless symphony of labour. No towering...

THIS is with reference to the report ‘After cold response from investors, CDA plans major changes to policy’...

ALMOST twice a year, hunters hailing mainly from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) but also from abroad visit Balochistan...

UNFORTUNATELY, the government in Sindh has not developed a tourism-friendly atmosphere even though the province has...

THE World Intellectual Property (IP) Day was observed around the globe recently (April 26). The theme this year was...

ZAKAT DEDUCTION: Since the 1980s, Zakat is deducted from bank accounts on the first day of Ramazan every year. The...

PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto today [April 30] paid glorious tributes to the people of Pakistan on the...

UNITED NATIONS: The 12-point special programme, including emergency measures, to mitigate the difficulties of...

QUETTA: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has unequivocally declared that Pakistan would not allow any foreign...

...[T]HE government tends to have the federal budget approved hurriedly while playing up its ‘successes’ in...

AFGHANISTAN has announced that the second phase of its presidential election [will take place on] June 14. ... Dr...

DEFENCE Minister Kim Kwan-jin’s hawkish stance against North Korea has made him No. 1 target of Pyongyang’s...