-- Chairing cabinet meeting, PM lauds efforts of armed forces in rescue and relief operations -- Says over 700 people, including over 400 in KP, lost their lives in flash floods -- Federal Cabinet approves dissolution...

PM reaches out to political leaders, assures rehabilitation of affected people

Premier Shehbaz contacts Bilawal, JI Emir Hafiz Naeem, MQM-P’s Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui to discuss flood devastation Expresses grief over loss of lives...

CJCSC, Uzbek President discuss evolving int’l, regional geo-political and security environment

Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza also meets Uzbek Defence Minister, Secretary National Security Council RAWALPINDI: Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Sahir Shamshad...

PM inaugurates facilitation center as one-stop solution to investors, entrepreneurs

- PM Shehbaz urges all relevant departments to efficiently run the center to make it a success ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday inaugurated...

Famine in Gaza

It is now official. What had been warned repeatedly would happen, has. Gaza is now in the grip of famine. This is no longer hyperbole by pro-Palestinian enthusiasts or...

Imran’s bail

PTI Patron-in-Chief Imran Khan has been allowed bail by the Supreme Court in a number of May 9 cases, which caused the more over-optimistic PTI supporters to demand that...

The flood that came from nowhere

Pakistan bleeds again under the weight of merciless skies. This time, it was not the long dread of the monsoon season but the sudden, brutal fury of a cloudburst...

Postpartum depression in Pakistan 

When a child is born in Pakistan, the room is often filled with celebration. Relatives arrive with gifts, the air smells of mithai, and the new mother is expected...

How can the World Help Palestine– beyond words?

Walid Samir al-Sabah was perhaps the youngest martyr of Gaza. She clung to life for just two hours after delivery through emergency caesarean, following the killing of her mother,...

The floods of misrule

Pakistan’s tryst with calamity has become a ritual of neglect. Each season brings familiar images— families perched on rooftops, bridges snapped like twigs, children wading through brown water that...

White Lies

WhiteLies: Run an ulti ginti

Run an ulti ginti on your front pages, the federal government’s information apparatus has requested the newspapers, on the deadline given to “illegal”...

White Lies: Dollar’s set to come down

The dollar’s going to come down to 260 rupees, says a proud commerce and industries minister. The irony: the minister, who happens to head the...

White Lies: The Lordships on their turf

A petitioner wants five Justices to be sacked, one of them, the new CJP. Amongst the litany of complaints are the allegations of unaccountable...