Stories by Editorial
PARLIAMENT has recently been debating the future of Pakistani democracy, but those debates will be for naught unless...
Published 30 Oct, 2026 07:09am
THE petroleum minister’s explanation in the National Assembly that the recent closure of the Iran border has...
Published 30 Oct, 2026 07:09am
THE resignation of Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani from the Lahore High Court is another indicator of the deepening...
Published 30 Oct, 2026 07:09am
The primary reason for governance failure in Pakistan is not the geographical size of the existing provinces but the reluctance of provincial capitals to empower local bodies.
Updated 29 Oct, 2026 08:22am
Enforcement must continue, but decisions should follow evidence, not the visibility of machinery on city roads.
Updated 29 Oct, 2026 05:06pm
FOR the people of Gaza, despite the ‘ceasefire’ reached last October, the genocide never really ceased. This ...
Published 29 Oct, 2026 06:46am
Iran and the Makkah pact states should pledge not to let external actors use their soil to launch aggression against each other.
Updated 28 Oct, 2026 09:10am
THE SBP’s decision to raise its policy rate by 50 basis points to 12pc was largely expected. It is also justified...
Published 28 Oct, 2026 06:52am
PAKISTAN’S journalists have seldom lacked organisations speaking in defence of press freedom. What has been ...
Published 28 Oct, 2026 06:52am
The proposed merger of the Privatisation Commission and the Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A) into a single institution is a sensible move.
Updated 27 Oct, 2026 09:28am
Technology can widen opportunity, but only when it is tied to good teaching, reliable connectivity and clear educational purpose.
Updated 27 Oct, 2026 05:09pm
ANOTHER dengue outbreak looms over the country for reasons of lack of preparedness and negligence. This month’s...
Published 27 Oct, 2026 07:22am
A price no buyer is obliged or financially equipped to pay is only a number. Growers seem to have grasped this before the government did.
Updated 26 Oct, 2026 08:56am
Whether police actions in "encounters" were legitimate or unlawful can only be established through credible investigations.
Updated 26 Oct, 2026 03:34pm
THE deaths of two families in Karachi, being investigated as suspected murder-suicides, raise disturbing questions...
Published 26 Oct, 2026 06:08am
Muslim countries have warned against a new conflict. But will the war lobbies in Washington and Tel Aviv listen?
Updated 25 Oct, 2026 09:01am
IT ill behoves a political party that claims to be the biggest and most popular in the country to be so mired in...
Published 25 Oct, 2026 06:20am
THERE is a lack of official data documenting the crisis, but even by the most conservative estimates, over a dozen...
Published 25 Oct, 2026 06:20am
Workers’ remittances have helped the current account and rebuilt reserves, and continued external borrowing has bought time.
Updated 24 Oct, 2026 08:41am
ON account of funding cuts and Israeli cruelty, the threat of famine once again looms over the occupied Gaza Strip....
Published 24 Oct, 2026 06:21am
