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Omar Quraishi
Omar Quraishi

  • December 25, 2025

    Perception is power

    PTI founder Imran Khan's sons Kasim Khan and Sulaiman Khan speak during...

  • December 11, 2025

    Planning the economy

    In this picture taken on April 16, 2023, people throng a market area...

  • November 27, 2025

    Turning around poverty

    A representational image of a man and a child.— AFP/FileFor almost two...

  • November 13, 2025

    Defending the amendment

    Treasury members rise from their seats to vote in favour of a bill during...

  • October 30, 2025

    Governing Karachi

    This picture taken on January 30, 2023, shows commuters passing through...

  • October 17, 2025

    Afghanistan’s miscalculation

    An Afghan Taliban fighter sits on a tank near the Afghanistan-Pakistan...

  • October 03, 2025

    Non-starter of a plan

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, US President Donald Trump, and Field...

  • September 18, 2025

    It’s just not cricket

    Pakistan's and India's players stand for national anthems before the...

  • September 04, 2025

    Modi’s China ploy

    China's President Xi Jinping and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

  • August 21, 2025

    Deluge of devastation

    People wade through flooded Mukha Singh Estate Road during heavy monsoon...

  • August 07, 2025

    Fixing Karachi

    Karachi Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab addresses a press conference at...

  • July 25, 2025

    Monsoon mayhem

    People wade through the flooded street after during the monssoon rain in...

  • July 25, 2025

    Monsoon mayhem

    People wade through the flooded street after during the monssoon rain in...

  • July 10, 2025

    Built to collapse

    Rescue workers search for victims under the rubble after a five-story...

  • July 10, 2025

    Built to collapse

    Rescue workers search for victims under the rubble after a five-story...

  • June 26, 2025

    A quiet diplomatic milestone

    A lot has happened in the past fortnight or so as far as Pakistan is...

  • June 26, 2025

    A quiet diplomatic milestone

    A lot has happened in the past fortnight or so as far as Pakistan is...

  • June 12, 2025

    This is a tale of two delegations

    Pakistan’s narrative based on what had actually happened in conflict, whereas India's based largely on falsehoods

  • May 29, 2025

    Pakistan’s taxing tragedy

    As result of these levies, amount sold by packaged juice sector has fallen by as much as 45%

  • May 15, 2025

    The delusions of a bully

    India and Modi government initially said nothing about ceasefire, too humiliated to face media

  • May 01, 2025

    War is not the way

    What India needs to do is to listen to countries and to its own citizens who are advising it to de-escalate

  • April 17, 2025

    Pakistan and the trade war

    Govt and businesses will have to take on this challenge head-on if they want annual exports to rise to $50bn and beyond

  • April 03, 2025

    The poverty forecast

    Cuts in public sector development spending programme are also likely to further affect quality of essential services

  • March 20, 2025

    Trump and academia

    US has traditionally led way with groundbreaking scientific research conducted at its top universities

  • March 06, 2025

    Where is Imran Khan?

    In other words, in possibly welcome change, PTI is playing healthy role inside parliament that of being opposition

  • February 20, 2025

    A woman’s citizenship ordeal

    We also have cases where people wait for years just to become actual citizens

  • February 06, 2025

    Studying abroad?

    Of course, one key element in all this is sorely lacking in Pakistan – and that is counselling

  • January 23, 2025

    Trump 2.0 and Pakistan

    Fact is that let alone Pakistan, Trump hasn’t really spoken much for any South Asian country, not even India

  • January 09, 2025

    Protecting your own

    A common thing that happens in Pakistan is tendency for young children to go to bed very late, even on school night

  • December 26, 2024

    Patronage and power

    This system fosters and places premium on VIPs, facilitating VIP culture, which is alive and kicking

  • December 13, 2024

    Life in a ‘posh’ area

    Everyone in Karachi is billed monthly for water, but many never get this water

  • November 28, 2024

    The ‘revolution’ is over

    Government decided to crack down decisively with result protest was over by early morning on Nov 27

  • November 15, 2024

    Unable to breathe

    Govt should prioritise developing public transport solutions that are both sustainable and use technology with low emissions

  • October 31, 2024

    A most important election

    Pak-American Public Affairs Committee , endorses Trump, while ignoring his strident anti-Muslim stance

  • October 17, 2024

    Travelling to India

    Govts need to realise that hundreds of millions of people on both sides of do not want permanent state of hostility and wouldn't mind visiting other country

  • October 04, 2024

    Blinded by devotion

    Such blind devotion is also found in other parts of the world, especially with larger-than-life populist leaders

  • September 19, 2024

    Where the customer doesn’t come first

    If anything, over years PTA has become arbiter of public morality, censoring content on internet as it sees fit

  • September 05, 2024

    The great firewall of Pakistan

    During this period, many sections of society have come forward and made complaints

  • August 22, 2024

    Very high stakes

    There’s nothing more high stakes than former ISI DG being hauled up in military custody and being court-martialled

  • August 08, 2024

    Revolution in Bangladesh

    However, the Bangladeshi government’s handling of the protests badly backfired

  • July 26, 2024

    What Biden’s exit means for us

    Trump has been leading on most opinion polls, particularly since the debate that badly exposed Biden

  • July 11, 2024

    Taxes – and more taxes

    Number of tax filers in all of Pakistan is less than five million

  • June 27, 2024

    Debating disinformation

    Bosnia is probably the only Muslim-majority country in mainland Europe

  • June 13, 2024

    The only way forward for the PTI

    Imran Khan has now formally given the go-ahead to talk to other political parties

  • May 28, 2024

    An ill-advised law

    PPP has also distanced itself from this law and abstained from voting