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THE State Bank’s decision to raise its key policy rate by 100 basis points to 11.5pc signals a shift in priorities...
Updated 29 Apr, 2026 09:18am
FOLLOWING the passage of the 26th and 27th Amendments, in 2024 and 2025 respectively, jurists and members of the...
Published 29 Apr, 2026 07:50am
AN important victory for child protection was secured on Monday with the Punjab Assembly’s passage of the Child...
Published 29 Apr, 2026 07:49am
THE US is undoubtedly the world’s top military and economic power at this time. Yet as the Iran quagmire has ...
Updated 28 Apr, 2026 09:07am
THE recent imposition of certain regulatory requirements for small-scale solar systems, followed by the reversal of...
Published 28 Apr, 2026 07:09am
FOR the first time in decades, defeating malaria in our lifetime is possible, according to WHO. Yet in Pakistan,...
Published 28 Apr, 2026 07:08am
NEGOTIATIONS to hammer out the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement took nearly two years before a breakthrough was achieved....
Updated 27 Apr, 2026 09:01am
A NEW UN-backed report has listed Pakistan among 10 countries where acute food insecurity is most concentrated. This...
Published 27 Apr, 2026 05:22am
THE world should not be deceived by a global migration count lower than the highest annual statistics on record —...
Published 27 Apr, 2026 05:22am
History’s recurring lesson is that great powers often mistake ultimatums for rational strategy. The Middle East...
Published 27 Apr, 2026 05:21am
Pakistan’s Big Catch-Up campaign showed progress but also exposed the scale of gaps in routine immunisation.
Updated 26 Apr, 2026 10:05am
PAKISTANIS have by now gained something of an international reputation for their gallows humour, but it seems that...
Published 26 Apr, 2026 05:02am
DISASTERS have typically been framed as acts of nature. Of late, they look increasingly like tests of preparedness...
Published 26 Apr, 2026 05:02am
THE fact that the truce between Israel and Lebanon has been extended for three weeks should be welcomed. But there...
Updated 25 Apr, 2026 09:10am
THE elimination of 22 terrorists in an intelligence-based operation in Khyber highlights both the scale and ...
Published 25 Apr, 2026 05:07am
THE recent decision by the FBR’s Directorate General of Customs Valuation to increase the ‘assessed value’ of...
Published 25 Apr, 2026 05:07am
A YEAR after at least 26 people were killed in a terrorist attack in occupied Kashmir’s Pahalgam area, ties ...
Published 24 Apr, 2026 07:53am
THE latest round of land valuation revisions by the FBR for tax purposes signifies a familiar pattern that ...
Published 24 Apr, 2026 07:53am
AMONG the many developments this month that Pakistanis can take pride in is the news that one of their own will soon...
Updated 24 Apr, 2026 09:02am
THOUGH the US has extended the Iran ceasefire — thanks largely to effective Pakistani diplomacy to prevent sliding...
Updated 23 Apr, 2026 09:14am
