High court sets aside PMDC`s new admission regulations
The Lahore High Court on Monday set aside admission regulations 2019 by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and directed the University of Health Sciences (UHS) to offer admissions…
View Point: ‘Irregularities’ Galore
Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq finds it hard to deal with the embarrassment caused by an election tribunal's decision to annul NA-125 result and order re-election. He has been using…
The year the hybrid system ended
What was the most important event of the year 2022? It was certainly not the ouster of Imran Khan’s government. The no-confidence motion that hunted him down was the consequence…
What a fall
The last two weeks in Pakistan’s life have shaken the country to its roots. As far as the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) coalition government is concerned, what a fall…
Balochistan: the foreign hand?
WITH the present uptick of attacks on security forces, we are back to a familiar routine. Between when a terrorist incident occurs and blame is assigned, the separation is no…
Portents of trouble ahead
The war of words and hostile rhetoric between the government and the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) continues unabated. If anything, the daily diet of such rhetoric is stoking the…
Who messed up Afghanistan?
IN his latest interview to PBS NewsHour, Prime Minister Khan correctly said the US “really messed it up in Afghanistan” and he also rightly questioned America’s motive for invading Afghanistan. In a second interview to…
Of love and war
THIS is not a love for war. This is a war for love. Look at how far we’ve come. From losing half our nation to misplaced ideas of nationalism, we…
Way to go
On Wednesday, September 27, our foreign minister was at his best. He minced no words and candidly poured his heart out – and that to in a foreign country. He…
Teenage Muslim boys and the Rohingya
Even the American government, an ostensibly most secular enterprise, relies on God as a unifying and motivating force. “God, country, corps” a US Marines’ mantra, defines a normative hierarchy. It…
