The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) disqualified PTI Chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Tosha Khana’s reference for five years on charges of misdeclaration under article 63(1)P of the constitution of Pakist...
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Friday removed Pakistan from its grey list. According to the details, the decision was taken by the FATF’s planetary meeting in Paris, France during 20-21 October 2022. While briefing ...
The last few months have been a roller coaster for the Pakistani Rupee (PKR) and there is a lot of talk about market determined rate, artificially strong Rupee and manipulation. Unfortunately, understanding of how the Pakistan f...
Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, one of the world’s most eminent seats of Islamic learning, has done what the Pakistani government should have done a long time ago and warned against fatwas banning polio vaccination in the count...
Shahrukh Jatoi, scion of a rich and influential family, has finally gotten away with blue murder on a legal technicality. Hearing his appeal against Sindh High Court’s (SHC’s) judgement, a three-member bench of the Supreme C...
As the world reels under multidimensional challenges of wars, migrations, pandemics, climate change, recession, food security and inequality, it may be interesting to listen to some wise men on where we are heading as global com...
Economists take turns solving what has now turned into a mind-boggling condition. Maybe now is the time to think about the loopholes and return to the fundamentals of economics. Recessions, pandemics, wars, or any unprecedent...
In the case of Pakistan, the possibility of climate-destabilisation is very much the reality. The message is quite obvious; the harms have begun and will eventually become more widespread with the passage of time. Consider the r...
Like clockwork, the winter season has brought with it thick and heavy clouds of smoke due to which, annually, Lahore and Karachi are ranked as the most polluted cities of Pakistan and the world. Every year, our country is dragge...
Enforced disappearances, racial profiling and harassment are pressing problems that human rights groups and victim groups have been advocating against for years; unfortunately, the government has mostly turned a blind eye toward...