The Sindh chief minister’s recent announcement that the first phase of work on Karachi’s Safe City Project will be launched within two months, making it the last provincial capital to get such a project, and several years after many smaller cities in Punjab successfully started their own projects. While announcing the first phase, which will […]
Earlier this month, a newborn baby was found abandoned in a garbage bin in Lahore’s Allama Iqbal Town. Police have been informed and legal proceedings are expected, though the baby’s condition remains undisclosed. For a society that claims reverence for life, the image of a newborn discarded among refuse should have triggered outrage. Instead, it […]
Universities across Pakistan are under sustained stress but the fault lines are perhaps most visible in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. When the University of Peshawar, the province’s premier public institution, struggles to pay salaries and survives on emergency government grants and borrowing, it is tempting to frame the problem as a temporary financial shortfall. That framing is misleading. […]
It’s a risky move. But Pakistan has gone ahead and done it. Will it pay off? The optics at Davos were heartening. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif all smiles with US President Donald Trump on the stage as they lean towards each other and exchange hushed words. Then the PM points forward with a smile. Trump […]
History will long remember and quote what two speeches, delivered at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2026 at Davos, did — confirmed that the rule-based global order of liberal internationalism is dying. President Trump of the United States addressed the audience comprising global leaders for one hour and twelve minutes. That was a speech by […]
Muhammad Imran did not take the fire seriously at first, thinking it was another small spark at Gul Plaza mall that would be quickly extinguished by fellow shop owners. But smoke seeped through ducts and blackened the air in seconds. The lights went out soon after and phone flashlights turned useless; people could no longer […]
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif emphasised on Saturday that Pakistan’s stability lay in strong local government and no one should see it as a threat. “When powers are not taken down to the grassroots level, it is tantamount to deceiving the people. Local government should be seen not as a threat but like a nursery. The world knows […]
Punjab Minister for Information and Culture Azma Bukhari on Saturday unveiled the approved standard operating procedures (SOPs) for Basant celebrations in Lahore scheduled from February 6 to 8, reiterating that public safety and order would remain the top priority for the festival’s return. The minister confirmed that celebrations would take place across the city under a regulated […]
India and Europe hope to strike the “mother of all deals” when European Union (EU) chiefs meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi next week, as the two economic behemoths seek to forge closer ties. Facing challenges from China and the United States, India and the European Union have been negotiating a massive free […]
Snow and heavy rain have killed 61 people in Afghanistan in the last three days, the disaster management authority (ANDMA) said on Saturday. The deaths occurred between Wednesday and Friday, mainly in central and northern provinces of the country, according to a map released by ANDMA. The “initial figures of casualties and destruction” also include […]