تھائی لینڈ میں 400 ملی میٹر سے زائد بارش نے 300 سالہ ریکارڈ توڑ دیا، جہاں بارشوں اور سیلاب نے تباہی مچادی، جس کے باعث اموات 33 ہوگئیں جب کہ رسیکیو ٹیمیں کشتیوں میں لوگوں کو محفوظ مقامات پر منتقل کرنے لگیں۔ برطانوی خبر رساں ادارے رائٹرز کے مطابق تھائی لینڈ کے جنوبی شہر ہاٹ […]
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday dismissed writ petitions filed by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Khan Afridi and Shehrnaz Ayub, wife of former federal minister Omar Ayub, challenging summons issued to them by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). The court ruled that the pleas were “premature” as the ECP had not yet initiated […]
The upcoming review of Pakistan’s Generalized Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status by the European Union scheduled for late November 2025 presents a defining moment for the country’s economic future and its commitment to international standards. While Pakistan has benefited tremendously from GSP+ status over the last decade – getting vital duty-free access to European […]
Every now and then an embarrassed Indian politico-military leadership hurls threats against Pakistan. From continuation of Operation Sindoor, to erasing Pakistan from the map, to Sindoor being a trailer of what is to come, to comments on Sindh – the diatribes are so endless that nobody takes them seriously anymore. The familiar pattern is to […]
The latest IMF’s 2025 Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment (GCDA) report offers a detailed examination of how institutional fragmentation, regulatory discretion and entrenched privilege continue to obstruct development. It states that unless Pakistan dismantles the structures of elite capture embedded across the state, no stabilisation effort will produce durable or inclusive growth. Behind this diagnosis […]
Pakistan is facing a public health emergency that can no longer be sidelined. The revelation that the country now hosts the fifth-largest tuberculosis (TB) caseload in the world is a stark warning of a deepening crisis. Even more critical is our fourth place ranking for drug-resistant TB — a severe and far more complex complication arising […]