Standing Committee on Climate Change suggests removing taxes on hybrid cars to fight pollution

News Analysis | Amongst other problems, the National Assembly has established that the rising air pollution in the country, especially Punjab and the federal capital...

PIA buys four smaller aircrafts on a Rs 13 billion credit line

News Analysis |  The National Flag Carrier that has embarrassed the country internationally with its corruption cases, runway accidents, staff’s thievery, wrong landings, missing cargo...

Lahore High Court orders to make Model Town inquiry report public within 30 days

News Desk | On Tuesday, a three-member bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the release of the Model Town inquiry report within the...

General Mattis visit to Pakistan: An ice breaker?

Jan Achakzai | The United States Defence Secretary Jim Mattis’s important visit to Islamabad comes on the heels of other high profile bilateral visits by...

Islamabad’s online vehicle verification system closed since August

News Analysis | In what is being coined as a bid to throw a blanket over the ever-growing number of Non-Custom Paid (NCP) vehicles, the...

US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis arrives in Islamabad

Reuters | U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Islamabad on Monday to ask Pakistan's civilian and military leadership to do more to rein in...

Shehbaz reviews shutdown order of cement factories at Katas Raj temple

News Analysis | Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday, 2nd December, reconsidered the measures taken for restoration of the Katas Raj Temple, it’s dried...

Sindhi Cultural Day: One of Pakistan’s greatest strengths

News Analysis | Sindhi Cultural Day was celebrated throughout Sindh on Sunday, with great enthusiasm and fervour. The event celebrated on the first Sunday of...

Minister of Power announces Pakistan has surplus energy

News Analysis | Federal Minister for the Power Division, Sardar Awais Leghari, in a press conference, stated that PML-N has fulfilled the promise it made...

CIA Director warns Pakistan of US action if safe havens are not destroyed

News Analysis | Mike Pompeo, the Director of the CIA, has made it clear that the United States will do everything it can do to...

Nawaz Sharif represents the predatorification of politics

Mudassir Saeed Laghari| It’s never too late to learn. And that includes Nawaz Sharif. And as one proverb goes ‘no matter how far wrong you...

Faizabad agreement deemed unconstitutional by Islamabad High Court

News analysis | On Monday, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) challenged the legal credibility of the agreement made by the...