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KASUR: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday urged the federal government to play a greater role in providing relief to Punjab's flood-hit areas, while acknowledging that Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz was working diligentl...
Raging floods have uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Pakistan. Monsoon rains in August brought deluges from different directions. During first half of the month, Gilgit and Hunza were battered by intense rain spells on...
When the parliament passed the 25th Constitutional Amendment in May 2018, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas- seven agencies and six frontier regions - were merged into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ending more than a century of gove...
Pakistan is determined to eliminate all terrorist organisations operating on its territory. The leadership and the security agencies see the Islamic State-Khorasan Province and the Balochistan Liberation Army as similar threats ...
The images out of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in August 2025 are eerily familiar: villages and roads destroyed by flash floods. In the days that followed, the word “cloudburst” found currency in media accounts and public conversation...
In realist literature exemplified by Graham Allison’s Thucydides Trap, as well as in American strategic policymaking under former president Joe Biden, China has been conceptualised as a systemic rival whose rise could threate...
Nazo Dharejo—once hailed as ‘Pakistan’s toughest woman’ for defending her land in Qazi Ahmed, a farming town in southern Sindh, against 200 armed men—now fights a tougher, unseen enemy: climate change. The fields she o...
It’s 9am in a rural health centre. The waiting room is full; the shelves are bare; and the generator is silent—there was no budget for fuel this quarter. A refrigerator meant to store vaccines has been switched off for days....
With university admissions underway, thousands of families find themselves at the crossroads of decisions that will not only shape individual careers but steer the country’s economic trajectory. Yet, despite producing thousand...
In the early 17th Century, as monsoon waters swelled the Chenab River, the city of Multan faced a flood that could have wiped it from the map. Mughal engineers, anticipating the seasonal deluge, had constructed a diversion canal...