Argentina’s state airline, Aerolineas Argentinas, is slimming down for a potential sale, shedding 13% of its staff, cutting money-losing domestic routes and even removing snacks formerly available to passengers, according…
From the Mars Ingenuity helicopter’s first powered flight on another world to the launch of the James Webb telescope that will peer into the earliest epoch of the Universe, 2021…
In the aftermath of the tragic crash of AirBlue Flight 202 in 2010, I wrote an article advocating that we revamp our emergency response systems. Almost two years later, I…
The tragedy of Airblue Flight 202 will not be easily forgotten, for reasons other than the loss of 152 lives. What will stay in our collective memory is that we…
The financial woes under which PIA labours are a decades-old and a well-known headache for the state. But a letter published in these pages a week ago speaks volumes for…
UNCONVINCING chants for the privatisation of bleeding SOEs are being raised in Islamabad. Presently, there are approximately 215 of them, of which 170 are commercial entities (with 475,000 employees), which…
A big thank you to my sister in Seattle for pointing out that Google translator translates ‘istehkam’ as ‘establishment’, but it’s unlikely that the English name for the newest political…
Recent years have been witness to the world being rocked by unforeseen and unimaginable global catastrophes. The novel corona virus pandemic emerged, causing, among other things, disruptions in trade and…
Oil prices are tumbling not because of supply glut but because its demand is plummeting. There is virtually no storage capacity left for a supply glut of the commodity (following…
The budget for fiscal year (FY) 2022, the fourth of the coalition government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), is to be announced on June 11, 2021. Every year before the announcement…
