Editorial -Opinion

Regional security

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

Rate hike

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

Press solidarity

PAKISTAN’S journalists have seldom lacked organisations speaking in defence of press freedom. What has been ...

Published 28 Oct, 2026 06:52am

Privatisation framework

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

Chromebook scheme

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

Dengue season

ANOTHER dengue outbreak looms over the country for reasons of lack of preparedness and negligence. This month’s...

Published 27 Oct, 2026 07:22am

Wheat price dilemma

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

Encounter culture

Whether police actions in "encounters" were legitimate or unlawful can only be established through credible investigations.

Updated 26 Oct, 2026 03:34pm

Recognising distress

THE deaths of two families in Karachi, being investigated as suspected murder-suicides, raise disturbing questions...

Published 26 Oct, 2026 06:08am

Prudent warning

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

Party of one

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

Reckless driving

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

Breaking the cycle

Workers’ remittances have helped the current account and rebuilt reserves, and continued external borrowing has bought time.

Updated 24 Oct, 2026 08:41am

Gaza starvation

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

Harvesting rackets

ORGAN vending rarely leaves the spotlight. The FIA and the Human Organ Transplantation Authority recently took five...

Published 24 Oct, 2026 06:21am

Nuclear uncertainty

With matters frozen in the political and diplomatic spheres, it will take military-to-military engagement to prevent miscalculation in the strategic sphere.

Updated 23 Oct, 2026 08:27am

Auto illusion

PAKISTAN’S draft auto policy 2026-31 is ambitious in its targets and directionless in its strategy. It promises...

Updated 23 Oct, 2026 05:11pm

Two crimes

THE senseless killing of a teenager by his employers in Multan is a crime that deserves unqualified condemnation. It...

Published 23 Oct, 2026 06:57am

Makkah pact clarity

Fresh aggression can kick off a firestorm that will be in no one’s control, hence it is best to abandon such reckless plans.

Updated 22 Oct, 2026 08:48am

Common ground

Regrettably, the two sides still fail to see the country’s economic, security, and governance crises as challenges that must be solved politically.

Updated 22 Oct, 2026 06:33pm

The treatment gap

A BREAST cancer diagnosis no longer carries the bleak outlook it did a generation ago. Targeted medicines,...

Published 22 Oct, 2026 05:44am

Real FBR reform

REFORM of the FBR has always been easier to promise than to deliver. Since the late 1990s, governments have tried...

Published 21 Oct, 2026 07:04am

Missing lawmakers

Some lawmakers have reportedly been in detention since before Oct 11.

Updated 21 Oct, 2026 08:32am

Tackling rabies

RABIES is a deadly but preventable zoonotic disease. On Monday, two more victims succumbed to it in Sindh, taking ...

Published 21 Oct, 2026 07:04am

Burnt bridges

If PPP wants the decision reversed, it should convince its ally in Islamabad, not ask the opposition to be ‘positive’.

Updated 20 Oct, 2026 08:39am

Toll on trade

Islamabad must find the right balance between its security priorities and the economic strain on KP’s residents.

Updated 20 Oct, 2026 05:13pm

French protests

SEVERAL European states have witnessed mass protests over the past few days, mostly focusing on socioeconomic...

Published 20 Oct, 2026 06:56am

Eating grass for AI

As dependence on AI grows, the bill could reach hundreds of millions of dollars by the end of the decade.

Updated 19 Oct, 2026 08:46am

Climate exodus

Climate displacement could then become another source of instability unless governments prepare for it together.

Updated 19 Oct, 2026 06:16pm

Settler terrorism

ISRAEL’S genocidal violence in occupied Gaza has understandably captured the world’s attention. Yet another...

Published 19 Oct, 2026 06:48am

State of denial

If the Taliban regime commits to preventing groups based on its soil from attacking neighbouring states, the process of normalisation and regional integration of Afghanistan can begin.

Updated 18 Oct, 2026 08:27am

Suffering in silence

TOO many Pakistani children have nowhere to turn when abused online. An estimated 1.5m internet-using children aged...

Published 18 Oct, 2026 06:42am

Export imperative

THE government’s efforts to boost Pakistan’s external sector through diversified financing, higher foreign...