Opinion & Analysis

Washington is never lost in its desire to retain its strategic interests in South Asia. Trump's revocation of sanctions waiver for India on Iran's Chabahar Port and his pushback to...

The State Bank's announcement that all federal and provincial government payments will be digitised by June 2026 is a landmark development. Done right, such a transition could inject much-needed transparency...

Karachi remains trapped in a perpetual state of transport chaos thanks to a combination of poor governance, poor planning and political tribalism. The recent decision by Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab...

At the University of Karachi, faculty members established the Research and Teaching Society (RTS) to enhance academic activities. Recently, RTS organised a session on research supervision. While syllabi and examinations...

Though the title — set against the woes overwhelming public life in the country — might sound oxymoronic, it is nevertheless not without merit in imagined paradoxical reality. For, in a parallel...

Geopolitics, like seasons, moves in cycles. Metaphorically, as much as seasons depict the change in nature, geopolitics is also speculation about the future and represents the impending change in the...

In 2005 at Edgbaston, Brett Lee knelt in the dust, body broken by one of the most bruising Tests of his career. Australia had lost by two runs, the narrowest...

The judges are in the dock. Five judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) have moved the Supreme Court praying that several administrative acts of their own court are in...

The US State Department's 2025 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are out — and what they omit says more than what they include. Once a respected barometer of global rights...

Pakistani children are hunted everywhere, every single day in plain sight while those tasked with their protection shield the predators lurking in classrooms, madrassas, living rooms, neighborhoods, workplaces and now...