Battle for Islamabad
The local government election campaign in Islamabad is at its most crucial stage. The election will take place on December 31, 2022. Most likely, the election will feature a two-way…
Smartphones for all?
Pakistan’s smartphone users continue to rely on imported technology. Since the Pakistani rupee continues to slide against the dollar, it makes sense that the government has decided to collaborate with…
Investors look to emerging markets as planets align for end of dollar bull market
As the US dollar tumbles from multi-decade highs, some investors are betting emerging market currencies will be big winners from a sustained reversal in the greenback. The MSCI International Emerging…
Disaster after disaster
In this era of rapid climate change, the importance of climate projections in policymaking, resource management, economic activity and technological advancement cannot be denied. Information about changes in climate change…
Encouraging genetic counselling
Due to a lack of awareness among the people as well as doctors – who are also inadequately trained to manage them – haemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorder patients…
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…
PMC issues fact-sheet on medical education reforms
After facing criticism from the medical fraternity and students, the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC)issued a f act-sheet, detailing a number of reforms it had undertaken for the betterment of medical…
Thin skin, big chip
IT’S just as well that Donald Trump wears a bulletproof vest under his shirt, otherwise the Indian prime minister’s repeated bear hugs might have bruised his ribs by now. Narendra…
A visionary project
On September 17, a historic event occurred. The prime minster of Pakistan inaugurated a beautiful campus of Pakistan’s first foreign engineering university, the Pak-Austria Fachhochschule, in Haripur Hazara, about 40…
Newly obtained documents show Huawei role in shipping prohibited US gear to Iran
China’s Huawei Technologies, which for years has denied violating American trade sanctions on Iran, produced internal company records in 2010 that show it was directly involved in sending prohibited US…
