Streamlining WASH
As a signatory and adopter of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Goal 6, Pakistan recognises access to water and sanitation as a fundamental human right essential for dignity, health,…
Hybrid pitfalls for PML-N
HYBRID set-ups have internal power struggle built into them. Like me, if you find some of the statements confusing — signalling differences of opinion within the top tiers of the…
PML-N’s uphill task in Punjab
WHETHER countrywide elections are held within three months to coincide with the elections to the Punjab Assembly, after its dissolution, or separately on the completion of the term of the…
PTI-PML-N: same or different?
A SIZEABLE splinter within the military-led establishment is demanding that Imran Khan, as its former creation, deserves a second stint in power. Fractures have cascaded downwards and split the superior…
Hobson’s choice for PML-N
NOW that it is all quiet on the you-know-what front, attention is focused on the political chessboard. Imran Khan is in no mood to relent and is now trying to…
PML-N’s challenge begins
IMRAN Khan is down but not out. This, it seems, is the emerging consensus since he vacated Prime Minister House only to inhabit the jalsa gah. Political conversations in Islamabad…
Fact-check on PML-N claim
The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ishaq Dar, labelled delays in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) disbursements under agreed loans as “sabotage”. “I was in the last government for…
Ways to streamline medical education
THIS is with reference to the report “Elevating medical education standards vital for citizens’ health: Dar” (June 23) which covered the proceeding of the second meeting of the committee on…
PML-N’s volte face
It is great to see the pragmatism shown by Mr Ishaq Dar earlier this month in the matter of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Taking out – or trying to take out…
As solar capacity grows, some of America’s most productive farmland is at risk
Dave Duttlinger’s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres…
