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Winter misery

News January 25, 2026

PAKISTAN’S underprivileged are perennially left out in the cold. As mercury dives to single digits, the government’s refusal to treat the biting cold as a climate emergency is claiming lives. In C...

American ‘armada’

News January 25, 2026

ALTHOUGH it seemed that US President Donald Trump had reconsidered his plans to stage an attack on Iran last week, an American military build-up in the region points to the fact that the danger of a c...

No dissent

News January 25, 2026

IT will be remembered as another low point in the history of Pakistan’s justice system. An Islamabad lawyer couple, often seen standing beside citizens challenging human rights violations, has been ...

Karachi’s fate

Health January 24, 2026

IN the aftermath of the Gul Plaza fire, a war of words has erupted between the MQM and PPP over the poor state of civic affairs in Karachi, with the two federal coalition partners blaming each other f...

Board takes shape

News January 23, 2026

IN the rarefied environs of Davos, the Board of Peace — a Trumpian addition to the world of multilateral bodies — was formally birthed on Thursday. Pakistan was among around 20 other states that s...

New beginnings

News January 22, 2026

BOTH Houses finally have an opposition leader endorsed by the majority on the opposition benches. The missing pillars of parliament have thus been restored, and both the government and opposition part...

External weaknesses

News January 21, 2026

FOR now, Pakistan’s return to a current account deficit in the first half of the fiscal year is less a cause for worry than a reminder of how fragile the external balance remains once growth resumes...

Predictable tragedy

News January 20, 2026

OVER 20 people have died after a fire tore through Gul Plaza on Karachi’s M.A. Jinnah Road on Saturday night. This tragedy did not come out of nowhere. It grew out of years of regulatory neglect and...

Taliban fissures

News January 19, 2026

THOUGH reports of fissures within the Afghan Taliban are not new, a recent BBC story has detailed some of the major differences that exist between the so-called Kandahar and Kabul factions of Afghanis...

Not quite Nobel

News January 18, 2026

LET us make no mistake. Donald Trump has not received the Nobel Peace Prize. He has simply acquired the medal. This is akin to holding a friend’s Oscar during a selfie and then captioning it ‘grea...