In Pakistan public education suffocates under surging population

AFP | At the Tanjai Cheena school in northwest Pakistan, students squeeze into makeshift classrooms where plastic tarps serve as walls and electricity are sparse,...

A rebuttal: After 100 Days- Dawn’s Editorial

Imran Jan | Dawn’s editorial titled “After 100 days” on November 30, 2018, is disguised as a work of journalism yet it is an amalgam...

From Iran deal to Khashoggi: A turbulent year fot the Middle East

AFP | A murdered Saudi journalist. A scrapped Iran nuclear deal. The two events alone have undone years of diplomacy in the Middle East, testing...

PM Khan needs new model to deal with ‘mis-governance’ in Baluchistan

Jan Achakzai | Baluchistan is in the media again for one reason: the missing person issue. The main political contender Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the Chief...

What Rivalry? Chinese, Indian troops dance together in joint exercises

AFP | Indian and Chinese soldiers looked to have hit it off in their first joint exercises since a dangerous standoff last year, with videos...

Complaint against Navjot Singh Sidhu for violating Wildlife Protection Act

News Desk | A wildlife activist has filed a complaint against Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, who gifted a stuffed Black Partridge to CM Amarinder...

India lose to Netherlands in hockey World Cup quarters

AFP | India crashed out of the field hockey World Cup after a 1-2 loss to the Netherlands in the quarter-finals in Bhubaneswar on Thursday. The...

Pakistan-Afghanistan-US: A historic triangle

Zain Ullah Khattak | The Trump administration’s decision to request Pakistan to help in Afghanistan peace process is one of the most significant and pragmatic...

Scapegoats of politicians and the limits of Judiciary

Farah Adeed | There is a widely held misconception across the globe in general, and in Pakistan in particular, that in modern sovereign state system the...

Biometric registration process initiated for all account holders: SBP

News Desk | The State Bank of Pakistan issued directives for commercial banks to begin biometrically verifying the identities of millions of account holders across...

Gas shortfall: PM Khan takes actions against SNGPL & SSGC

News Desk | Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered the immediate removal of the board of directors (BoDs) of the Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited...

Who approached PTI’s Murad Saeed for an NRO?

News Analysis | In a shocking move, the Minister of State for Communications and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNA Mr. Murad Saeed on Wednesday claimed he was...