Six months ago, the buzz in Islamabad was that foreign airline giants were lining up to acquire a seemingly beleaguered Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). The authorities, concerned at potential fallout,…
RECENTLY, the Chinese and Pakistani prime ministers inaugurated the Gwadar International Airport — virtually from Islamabad. From a development perspective, the airport is a useful addition and set to enhance…
ON Jan 22, Google commemorated Perween Rahman’s 65th birthday. It was a commendable way of recognising the life and work of the late director of Karachi’s Orangi Pilot Project, who…
CIVILISED countries meticulously adhere to rule of law and hold public property sacred. They also treasure education institutions, particularly their better ones. On the other hand, morally and culturally backward…
THE demonstrations that erupted in Gilgit-Baltistan at the end of 2022 have entered the new year. The mass protests against electricity shortages, reduction in the wheat quota, taxation and alleged…
THE dictionary meaning of culture is “the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively”. Keeping this definition in mind, we can conclude that most decisions taken on…
SUGGESTIONS for policy reforms and inputs for party manifestos are surfacing as we move towards the evolving reality of the February 2024 election, which is expected to usher in a…
ACCORDING to economist Julian Simon, “the ultimate resource is people — especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty — who will exert their wills and imaginations for…
THE media is full of real estate ads offering plots of land, condominiums, apartments, one-unit houses, holiday homes, farmhouses, commercial spaces, etc, in many locations in the country. The use…
THE scale of last year’s floods in Pakistan would have overwhelmed a developed country, let alone a developing one. Glacial melt and unexpectedly heavy rainfall attributed to climate change triggered…
