Driver killed, student injured in attack on school van in Swat: police

Unidentified armed men on a motorcycle opened fire on a school van in Swat’s Char Bagh area on Monday, killing the driver and injuring a child, according to police. Swat District Police Officer (DPO) Zahid Marwat, while con...

Will the fire cease?

After prosecuting the most intense ethnic cleansing exercise in modern history for 15 months, Tel Aviv and Washington have finally agreed to a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza. The pact, brokered by Qatar’s emirs, provides for tem...

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Is it time for basic income in Pakistan?

Social assistance is everywhere conditional, and in Pakistan it is no different. Either it comes with behavioural strings attached — ‘do this and we’ll help you, don’t and we won’t’ — or it is targeted, with receip...

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Against children

Why is this country so against its own children and its own future? Are you sur-prised by this question? Look at some of the statistics and facts below and see if the question is still surprising. Some 40 per cent of our chil...

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India’s dangerous game

The latest inflammatory remarks by India’s military brass about Pakistan mark a troubling departure from the professional restraint expected of senior defence officials. Gen Upendra Dwivedi’s labelling of Pakistan as an “e...

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World Bank loan

That the World Bank will give $20bn to Pakistan in the next 10 years to address some of the country’s most acute development challenges, including but not limited to stunting, learning poverty, climate change, and a collapsing...

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