The National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) has released a new version of the Indicative Generation Capacity Expansion Plan (IGCEP). As the name implies, it is a power-generation capacity expansion plan for the next 10...
As Climate Change Minister Sherry Rahman has noted, although Pakistan produces only one per cent of greenhouse gases which cause global warming and according to Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal are chiefly responsible for the devas...
In a second audio leak of former prime minister Imran Khan related to the cipher, Imran can be heard telling Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar and his then principal secretary Azam Khan that nobody should name the United States (U...
The IMF is considered the financial doctor of the last resort. A core function of the Fund is bailouts to countries struggling to meet international obligations in return for implementing agreed conditionalities. Programmes focu...
FOREIGN MINISTER Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has just visited Washington. By all accounts, his visit helped carry forward the recent revival of Pakistan-US ties that have seen significant developments including the potential sal...
A SENSE of ‘impending doom’, ‘exhaustion’, ‘fuzziness in the head’, a ‘semi-conscious state of sleep’, accompanied by fever, nausea, vomiting and excruciating body pain, is how people who have survived dengue, de...
HOW can we measure the industrial strength of our country? The strength of a human being is the force exerted by his muscles. Muscular strength determines a person’s strength. While there is no simple indicator of industrial s...
On Friday morning, Kabul’s Dasht-i-Barchi neighbourhood was rocked by a terrorist attack targeting an educational institution — part of a bloody cycle of violence that has become painfully familiar. Hundreds of students were...
Several hundred farmers have converged on Islamabad for the last three days to protest against the soaring costs of agricultural inputs, diesel and electricity. They are also seeking the abolition of taxes on agricultural machin...
TIME has made it clear that ‘Cablegate’ was little more than a cunning ploy. With calculated shrewdness, former prime minister Imran Khan seized on a diplomatic cable and managed to turn it into a potent weapon. Using it, he...