Pakistan is no more largely an agricultural, rural society, where...
The utilisation statistics of the Punjab development budget tell the same...
The strategic ties between India and the US are on the rise and are...
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari are trying to restore the...
A section of the security establishment has come out of its denial mode...
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is largely viewed as a significant...
The brutal torture of Tayyaba, a 10-year-old housemaid, in Islamabad has...
Islamabad is trying to balance its act in Afghanistan with Army Chief...
Unnerved by the latest round of Kashmiri intifada, New Delhi has stepped...
The death toll of civilian and military casualties in cross-border firing...
Winters traditionally begin with foggy days in the plains of Punjab but...
Exploitation of limestone in the Salt Range for the manufacturing of...
The economic policies adopted by our self-serving elite have spawned a...
Lahore’s sewerage-cum-drainage system was built nearly 80 years ago...
Some recent credible investigations by the Punjab government into the...
While an array of foreign and domestic forces are involved in fomenting...
It seems that in the eyes of the National Data Registration Authority ,...
Punjab is suffering under the burden of Lahore. While around 10 percent...
The Punjab government presents its true annual budget at the end of a...
With every passing day, destruction of the beautiful Margalla Hills goes...
Natural water springs and lakes in Punjab are suffering from...
Lahore’s metro-train project is underway, raising several...
The way we are recklessly destroying our water resources can be seen in...
During the first nine months of FY 2015-16, the Punjab government...
With almost half of the civil work completed on the intercity mass...
The Punjab police’s failure to apprehend the outlaws in the Indus...
Public-sector water filtration plants, which are considered a main source...
During the last four years, thousands of Christians have left Pakistan to...
Terrorism in Pakistan has become quite complex; the military operations...
As if emissions of hazardous gases and particles from vehicles and...
Elimination of sectarian militants and the campaign against their...
Elimination of sectarian militants and the campaign against their...
Even after almost three years in office, the present government has not...
According to the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association , around 30...
It is the standard practice of our rulers that in areas in which they...
Eleven years have passed since Pakistan signed and ratified the World...
Having miserably failed to achieve the United Nations’ Millennium...
The 2015 local bodies elections in Sindh have reinforced the urban-rural...
A few miles in the north of Jhelum city a chipboard factory spread over...
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the chief ministers of the four provinces were to attend the Population Summit in Islamabad on November 5-6, but they did not show up – indicating weak political...
The recent sectarian killings of over 35 people in the Bolan district and Shikarpur display the resilience of terrorist groups despite the fact that the army has been conducting an operation against...
The settlement of the Kashmir dispute may be uncertain, but seven years of trade across the Line of Control has united the people of Jammu and Kashmir in commerce, turning the LoC into the Line of...
Control on tobacco smoking is a major preventive health issue in our country as it is a major cause of fatal diseases such as cancer and heart and lung ailments, but the federal government is...
The capacity of terrorists to strike in any part of the country exposes our abiding vulnerability mainly arising from, among other things, long-standing weaknesses in our internal security system...
If history is any guide, short cuts are not helpful in fighting corruption. From Gen Ayub Khan’s ABDO to Gen Pervez Musharraf’s NAB, each burst of accountability has been followed by a greater...
While visiting a friend who teaches Urdu at the Government College, Gulberg in Lahore, I saw more than 180 students of the intermediate level squeezed in a classroom, sweating and breathing heavily...
The Sahiwal power project, which will burn six million metric tonnes of coal each year – posing grave environmental risks to the soil, water and air of the region – needs to be brought under...
At least one million people in Lahore are using unsafe drinking water contaminated with different pollutants including arsenic if we take into account the findings of the 2014 annual report on...
Lahore is fortunate that the Punjab government last month abandoned its plan of setting up a small coal-fired power station near the BRB Canal following which the Lahore High Court disposed off a...
