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A lethal year

News December 30, 2025

DATA released by an Islamabad-based think tank confirms that 2025 was a lethal year where terrorism-related fatalities are concerned. In fact, the statistics compiled by the Pakistan Institute for Con...

Property disputes

News December 29, 2025

THE intention appears to have been noble enough, but the manner in which the Punjab government set about trying to address the problem was bound to invite legal challenges. And this is precisely what ...

Privatisation push

Business December 28, 2025

ONE swallow does not make a summer. Does it? The sale of PIA has fetched the government much praise β€” if not much cash. Simultaneously, it has stirred hopes that the first major privatisation in mor...

Clear messaging

News December 27, 2025

AFTER the opposition Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan stated last Sunday that it still believes dialogue was the way out of the present crisis, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was quick to reciprocate t...

Dhaka-Delhi rupture

News December 26, 2025

TIES between Bangladesh and India are experiencing extreme turbulence, especially after the murder of prominent Bangladeshi student leader Sharif Osman Hadi, with his supporters and sympathisers claim...

Security situation

News December 26, 2025

TAKING stock of what remains an incredibly precarious security situation, the military’s top brass on Wednesday resolved to address the β€œnexus” between terrorism, crime, and β€œvested political ...

PIA’s privatisation

News December 25, 2025

PIA’S sale β€” the first major privatisation in nearly two decades β€” is being hailed as a historic achievement. Symbolically, it is. Substantively, it is far more complicated because it underscore...

A way out

News December 24, 2025

AFTER the weekend deliberations in the federal capital concluded with both the opposition and government camps calling for dialogue, some political β€˜in-betweeners’ have also chimed in with helpful...

Breaking the ice

News December 23, 2025

IT seems the political temperature in the federal capital fell by quite a few degrees this weekend. After weeks of fire and fury, which seems to have culminated this Saturday in a slate of fresh convi...

IWT violation

News December 22, 2025

THE recent disruptions in the Chenab river flow show a clear pattern in which India has repeatedly manipulated its upstream position to exert pressure on Pakistan ever since New Delhi said it would su...