Vaccine roll-out
THE roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine dominates the global public discourse as countries zero in on the mammoth task of immunising their populations. As of March 18, 9.96 million doses…
THE roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine dominates the global public discourse as countries zero in on the mammoth task of immunising their populations. As of March 18, 9.96 million doses…
PARLIAMENT has become so incidental to our politics, we rarely notice small but significant changes taking place within its hallowed halls. This isn’t just because of our parties and their…
One isn’t aware of any other cop in Pakistan who served as the inspector general of police of three provinces. It is also rare to find a policeman who commanded…
In November last year, I was inside a prison cell in Multan Jail, deprived of food and sleep and not knowing the precise charges against me, yet feeling confident and…
The Covid-19 pandemic which has ravaged the world, has unsurprisingly had an impact on the kinds of lives people live in our country. According to limited research by private researchers…
How did we miss such a cataclysmic event in our history? Dr Farrukh Saleem, the government’s spokesperson on economy, has finally pulled the blinkers from our eyes. Naya Pakistan has…
Pakistan’s total debt has reportedly risen to Rs36 trillion. There are multiple reasons for the rise, including unnecessary and wasteful expenditures, under the non-development and development heads, incurred by rulers…
In its latest report submitted before the three-member implementation bench of the Supreme Court, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) appointed by the court to probe the alleged Panama Papers corruption…
The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (‘PAC’) has of late adopted the view that every public institution in Pakistan must get its accounts audited by the auditor general of Pakistan…
Unfortunately, this article is not about Blackbeard or Calico Jack or Bartholomew Roberts; that would have been a fun write up, albeit not for this newspaper. Fortunately, for all of…