Pakistan and Afghanistan trade shows upward trend as border opened
Pakistan on Thursday announced it will reopen two more border crossings with Afghanistan to boost trade between the neighbors. Mohammad Sadiq, Pakistan’s special representative for...
South Punjab province or Saraikistan; what do Saraikis demand?
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Imran Khan over the government’s recent steps towards the realization of South Punjab...
Elite private school in Lahore rocked by harassment scandal
This article discusses the recent cases of child abuse at an elite private school at Lahore. The author has suggested some precautionary measures to...
Pakistan should reopen educational institutions. Here is why.
The government of Pakistan is about to decide the future of educational institutions across the country in the midst of COVID-19 outbreak. There are...
UNSC condemns attack on PSX: Did India try blocking this?
The UN Security Council has, in strongest terms, condemned this week’s attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange building in Karachi, the country’s financial capital. In...
Made in India: Indian tech seizes the moment after government ban on Chinese apps
Millions of Indians have joined homegrown social media platforms since New Delhi banned a slew of Chinese apps, including TikTok, amid growing tensions between...
China retaliates: imposes its own sanctions after US restrictions on media outlets
As the post-modern world is strained by economic difficulties and fears of repercussions of dealing negligently with a novel coronavirus, ties between the two...
How BLA’s attack on PSX is scarier than it looks
With apologies to Ian Fleming for paraphrasing the title, terrorism is back again in Karachi. The attack by the banned BLA at the PSX...
US hoards COVID drug, leaving little for the rest of the world
While the US hoards COVID drug remdesivir, there is a genuine fear that the rest of the world now has less to buy and...
DG ISPR dismisses Indian news of Pak Army’s additional LoC deployment, airbase use by China
Pakistan army spokesperson Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar has rebutted false propaganda blitz unleashed by Indian media regarding the additional deployment of Pakistan army troops...
US in desperate need of Pakistan as leaks reveal Russian Intelligence paying cheques to Taliban
As expected, the controversy over Russia’s alleged bounties for killing American and NATO troops in Afghanistan is steadily snowballing. The New York Times has...
Public Service in Pakistan: A Reform Agenda
In 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant of USA appointed Dorman B. Eaton as the chair of the first Civil Service Commission, who later went...