The experience of India offers Lahore a clear warning. When municipal failure in managing stray dogs escalated into a public health, the Indian Supreme Court was forced to intervene – not to endorse killing, but to reaffirm that sterilisation and vaccination are the only solutions grounded in law and science. Lahore’s stray dog crisis is […]
Recent data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, complied by a stock brokerage and financial company, reveals a widening inequality in incomes and assets between the rich and the poor of the country. The data shows economic prosperity is flowing upwards while financial strain is dissipating deep downwards making the rich richer and the poor […]
I went to a departmental store the other day to buy some moisturisers for wintery dry days. I asked the salesboy whether they are offering any discount. He smiled and said politely, “No, sir.” As an afterthought, he said that there was a ‘free gift’ for me for visiting their shop for the first time. […]
The world is in the middle of an extreme backslide in democracy, with Human Rights Watch saying that about 72s% of the world now lives under autocratic governments, and that democracy has receded to 1985 levels. That year is important because it is a time when the world was divided mainly by the Cold War, […]
The decision of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to conduct a tree census and manage non-native species like the pollen-heavy paper mulberry is a science-based step toward smarter urban stewardship. This initiative should be treated as a test case – essentially a pilot project – for other cities to replicate. A nationwide tree census could […]
The World Bank reaffirmed its commitment to Pakistan’s $20 billion development programme on Sunday, underscoring its continued support for the country’s reform and development agenda. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb met World Bank Group Managing Director Anna Bjerde on the sidelines of the AlUla Conference for Emerging Market Economies in Saudi Arabia. The meeting reviewed progress […]
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s coalition swept to a historicelection win on Sunday, paving the way for promised tax cuts that have spooked financial markets and military spending aimed at countering China. The conservative Takaichi, Japan’s first female leader who says she is inspired by Britain’s “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher, was projected to deliver as […]
A strike call by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday failed to gain traction in Islamabad, as daily life remained largely unaffected across the federal capital. Business activities and public services continued as usual, with the Capital Development Authority (CDA) proceeding with its weekly Sunday bazaars as scheduled. Although public life remained operational, the Islamabad district […]
The Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 stands as one of the most carefully negotiated and legally robust transboundary water agreements in modern international law. Concluded between Pakistan and India with the good offices of the World Bank, the Treaty was designed to remove water from the volatility of politics and conflict and to anchor it […]