Undoubtedly, social media is susceptible to fake news. So be it. After all, it is social media and not state media. Social media thrives on informality, while state media prospers in formality. Aside from fake news, social media...
ISLAMABAD: An Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) official Friday apprised a parliamentary panel that the regulator has taken over the demand and supply function from the Petroleum Division and a more resilient NOSC has been...
Every day horrific stories of people dying in road accidents are increasing. Many of them are the most vulnerable motorcyclists. Zig zag and in and out of one traffic lane to the other it seems they are acrobats in a circus i...
“Our hand has now been forced because we have reached a level that if we don’t expand the net and bring the under-taxed, untaxed sectors into the economy, we are at the end of the road.” Addressing members of the Karach...
There are no two opinions on that young offenders should not be held in regular prisons because it messes them up. Besides, the idea is not to punish but reform them. It’s been a while, i.e., 2000 when the first step in that d...
Whatever the nuts and bolts of the Second Amendment Bill to the Election Act 2024 – it does not matter – the gist is that the government is not going to waste any time in doing whatever it can to resist the Supreme Court’s...
The highly disturbing picture that emerged during a recent hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis with respect to the state of the country’s workforce employed abroad – mainly in the Gulf region – ...
Without much ado, India has slowly but surely transformed into a state embracing Hindutva, at the cost of shredding secularism. The rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in 2014 marked a turning point in this journey...
I vividly remember my early school days when Pakistan was a respected and progressive nation, filled with spirited and happy people. Governance was strong, effective, and proactive. To address shortages of wheat flour, rice, ghe...
In a political climate where confrontations often lead to escalation, the government has done well to find common ground with the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), showing an alternative pathway and a glimpse of what reconciliati...