Israelis – all the way up to cabinet ministers – celebrating Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination will be vindicated only and only if the United States sides with them at a point when the Gaza genocide is sure to spi...
“When evildoing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” Bertolt Brecht says, ”When crimes begin to pile up, they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable, the cries are no longer heard. The cries, t...
Pakistan is about to enter into an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A July 12 press release from IMF indicated that ’The Pakistani authorities and the IMF team have reached ...
Pakistan’s economic journey took a momentous turn after it bid farewell to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in August 2016, after successfully completing twelfth and final review of Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme,...
In a perfect reflection of the way global income and wealth disparities have grown exponentially in our times, two recent headlines provide a very apt encapsulation of this reality. According to a statement by Oxfam on July 25, ...
On 31st July, Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of the political bureau of Hamas, was assassinated in Tehran, the Iranian capital, just hours after attending the inauguration ceremony of newly elected Iranian president Masoud Pezeshk...
Whenever discussing Israel, each Pakistani’s reaction is grounded in anger and outrage—an understandable response given the history and current actions of Israel. In the vast majority of these discussions, the reasons giv...
The country is currently experiencing an excessive monsoon downpour, with rains that were once predictable and manageable now becoming more damaging. Even the most resilient infrastructures worldwide have struggled to withstand ...
The government has proscribed the terrorist Majeed Brigade and Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group (HGBG), and has designated the terminology Fitna al Khawarij for the already outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). There are now a total ...
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has released a report with the astonishing finding that all power distribution companies have been over-billing, leading to inflated bills across the country over the past...