Can we register a business in 18 minutes?
Imagine registering a business in under ten minutes – without visiting multiple government offices, submitting countless forms, or waiting weeks for verification. While this might sound like a distant dream…
Balochistan as partner
Balochistan’s isolation is not only geographic or developmental but rooted in questions of power and sovereignty. The province faces an armed separatist movement that seeks not reform, but secession, and…
Pakistan’s energy crossroads
This year’s Earth Day, with the theme ‘Our Power, Our Planet’, demanded more than symbolism for Pakistan. Amidst the escalating climate risks, fiscal stress and deepening energy poverty, the country…
Unifying Kashmiris
Cutting across political divides, the people of Kashmir vehemently condemned the recent tragic attack in Pahalgam, a popular scenic town in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir, which claimed the lives of…
HEC seeks Rs86bn for universities in next fiscal year
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has asked the federal government to allocate Rs86 billion in the budget for universities across the country for the next financial year, according to HEC…
PMDC clears registration backlog
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council has announced the successful resolution of a significant number of cases regarding teaching experience, postgraduate registration, good standing, foreign local verification and registration certificates. A…
Weaponised narratives
As a loyal overseas Pakistani based in Dubai since 1997 who has stood shoulder to shoulder with Pakistan, I write this with clarity of purpose: to fully reject and categorically…
India can’t stop Pakistan’s water
There's been a controversy going on in Pakistan for several weeks now. The core issue is that in Punjab, under the control of the SIFC and their vision, the Green…
A new era is beginning
The global strategic environment has been radically transformed over the past quarter of a century with increasing signs of the end of the US-dominated unipolar moment and the emergence of…
