Lamenting a glorious city
It is a city that houses major financial, capital, and industrial services and labour markets, and provides livelihoods to millions of people. It generates more than half the total federal taxes, and serves as the p...
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Hard Iran-US nuclear talks
The ongoing indirect nuclear talks between America and Iran are inching forward with the two sides agreeing to meet for the next round this week. Both countries described the meeting in Oman as “constructive”. It was th...
Chinese burn
Almost 70 years ago, the Chinese leader Mao Zedong dismissed the US as a “paper tiger”. He clarified that the reference was strategic. “Regarding [American imperialism] as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each pa...
Justice within reach
Last week in Islamabad, something rare happened. Judges, police officers, prosecutors, lawyers, policymakers, and rights experts gathered: not in the usual posture of mutual suspicion or institutional self-preservation, but in a...
Improved outlook
Remittances hit an all-time high of nearly $4.1bn last month, breaking the streak of $3bn per month during the July-February period, to everyone’s surprise. The March remittances rose by 37pc from a year ago and were up by 3...
Water dispute
With a long, hot summer looming ahead, the last thing the country needs is two provinces fighting over water. Yet, that is precisely where things seem to be headed. Prompted into action by farmers’ protests, the PPP, the rulin...
A positive start
From American threats of bombing Iran, things have taken a more positive turn as President Donald Trump’s emissary Steve Witkoff initiated indirect talks on the nuclear issue with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Mus...
Big industry shrinks 3.5pc in March
ISLAMABAD: The Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) sector continued to show sluggish performance as production contracted by 3.51 per cent in February compared to the same month last year, according to data released by the...
Fuel price relief ‘denied’ as govt raises levy to Rs80
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government burnt the midnight oil to block about a Rs10 per litre reduction in major petroleum products — petrol and diesel — by amending the Petroleum Products (Petroleum Le...
Senate body for provision of best facilities to children with autism
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Federal Education and Professional Training on Tuesday directed that the best facilities for children with autism should be provided. The committee, which met with Senator Bushra An...