‘Private Bureaucracy’ Jitters as Chief Justice Orders Recovery of Hefty Salaries

News Analysis | Mian Saqib Nisar, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, ordered the bureaucrats heading the private companies in Punjab to pay back the extra...

Brutalized Dalits leave Hinduism for Buddhism

News Analysis | At least 45 members of Sarvaiya family, whose four sons had been flogged by self-styled cow vigilantes, renounced Hinduism and embraced Buddhism...

Why will the so-called Populist budget lead to higher inflation?

News Analysis | Amid strong protests from opposition parties, and a hype created around a so-called populist budget, ruling party may have presented the budget...

Miftah Ismail’s appointment as Finance Minister is continuity of PML-N’s dark meritocracy

News Analysis | The embattled Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) set another precedent, in bad taste, days before the culmination of its tenure. This was...

Nestle providing business to hundreds of poor women with BISP

News Analysis | Nestle Pakistan has announced that its revenue from the Rural sales program in the first quarter of 2018 has crossed PKR 4...

Govt announces huge tax cuts on electric cars in Budget 18-19

News Analysis | To conform to the global shift towards environment-friendly electric/clean energy cars, the Government of Pakistan has introduced tax cuts and facilitation to...

PML-N lawmaker threatens FIR against Chief Justice

News Analysis | The members of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) seem to be making a strong exception to the directives of Mian Saqib Nisar,...

Imran Khan’s regular absence in key assembly sessions in worrisome

News Analysis | Imran Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI),  failed, once again, to turn up for the sixth and last budget meeting, presented...

North-South Korea: Exemplar for India and Pakistan

News Analysis | Dressed in a black safari suit, The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un garnered media spotlight as he detached from his fellows and...

PTI brushes off rumors regarding conflict between Imran Khan & Bushra Maneka

News Desk | Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has denied the news of a possible feud between Imran Khan and his third wife Bushra Maneka as published in...

Here’s how Scandinavian operation led to Pakistan’s first sentence against pornography convict

News Analysis | Months after concerns regarding the presence of global pornographic operatives in Pakistan were raised, the country has sentenced a man from Sargodha...

Asaram Bapu case: The Culture of Rape in South Asia

News Analysis | Asaram Bapu, an Indian spiritual guru; a religious leader with a massive fan base from around the world, has been awarded a...