RAWALPINDI: Maj Gen A.A.K. Niazi, the Commander of Eastern Command till the fall of Dacca in December, 1971, has ...

‘NEVER again. And yet, here we are. Again.’ Two years into Israel’s war on Gaza, the global debate is still trapped in ...

When corporate farming is presented as the solution, while forestry, fisheries and nutrition languish, it betrays skewed ...

THE jirga system violates human rights, and exists in violation of Article 10A of the Constitution. The motive ...

Indeed, if a durable Ukraine peace deal does emerge, it will be a major feather in the Trumpian cap. But there is still a long way to go before the guns in both Kyiv and Moscow fall silent. Several ...

BACK in the days when a two-state solution to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands did not seem absurdly unviable, ‘land for peace’ was a familiar trope, implying that both sides would cede ...

THE World Economic Forum (WEF) has ranked Pakistan right at the bottom of Gender Gap Index 2025, with the country having been placed at the 148th position on a list that has 148 countries. This paints ...

Indeed, such strategies are important tools to attract fresh investments in priority industrial sectors. Global experience shows that fiscal, regulatory and other economic incentives and a positive ...

TWENTY-ONE children have been paralysed by polio in Pakistan this year, the latest two in Kohistan and Badin.

PAKISTAN and the United States seem to be entering into yet another diploma-tically significant era, one that, ...

Two individuals, who had been main-taining accounts at a bank branch in Islamabad for ages, had their accounts closed without any intimation or reason. When the bank was asked to explain the cause, it ...

Kiruna Kyrka, an imposing 672-tonne Swedish Lutheran church from 1912, is being moved five kilometres (three miles) on remote ...