2024-06-13-01-42
Spiraling electricity bills and the resulting unbearable burden on the ordinary consumers has brought the agreements...
Updated 13 Jun, 2024 08:10am
2024-06-13-01-55
“We have every right to occupy open public spaces near our mosque,” was the refrain from a well attired moulvi...
Updated 13 Jun, 2024 08:15am
2024-06-13-01-42
In a country grappling with debilitating debts, systemic inefficiencies across sectors, rampant inflation and...
Updated 13 Jun, 2024 08:12am
2024-06-12-02-23
The Economic Survey’s relevance, limited to data analysis, is neither up to date (limited to July-March or for ...
Published 12 Jun, 2024 06:51am
2024-06-13-01-54
“Hunter Biden has been found guilty on three counts…”
“The US has taken the lead there.”
“Have you...
Published 13 Jun, 2024 06:22am
2024-06-12-01-54
Here’s the latest twist in the saga of Pakistan’s economic spectacle: we’ve decided to bring in a foreign...
Published 12 Jun, 2024 06:51am
2024-06-12-01-54
The power sector in Pakistan is facing a crisis of public perception amid the litany of technical challenges...
Updated 12 Jun, 2024 07:13am
2024-06-12-01-54
In a devastating incident on May 30, 2024, a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder explosion claimed the lives of ...
Updated 12 Jun, 2024 07:18am
2024-06-12-01-54
“So what do you mean by surgery?” “That’s rather a silly question. Surgery is when you have an operation and...
Published 12 Jun, 2024 06:51am
2024-06-11-12-49
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has come up with a very pleasant surprise. The year-to-year rate of...
Published 11 Jun, 2024 03:17am
2024-06-11-12-49
The Indian elections are an indicator of the fact that Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) hubris...
Published 11 Jun, 2024 03:17am
2024-06-11-12-51
Corporate farming is a term that is used to describe an agricultural operation that involves the production of food...
Published 11 Jun, 2024 03:17am
2024-06-11-12-37
“The Pope hath spoken.”
“I wasn’t aware he has said anything lately. Oh, you mean what he said this Friday...
Published 11 Jun, 2024 03:17am
2024-06-10-02-40
Inflation is pushing an ever increasing number below the poverty line (currently estimated at 40 percent comparable...
Updated 10 Jun, 2024 08:13am
2024-06-10-02-40
Negotiations with the IMF on the next programme are ongoing, with budget formation being an integral part of the...
Updated 10 Jun, 2024 08:18am
2024-06-10-02-40
Most textile and apparel exporters operate on razor-thin margins, where pricing differentials are in US cents and...
Updated 10 Jun, 2024 07:58am
2024-06-10-02-40
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will be making its monetary policy public today. As May inflation has already dropped...
Updated 10 Jun, 2024 08:06am
2024-06-09-01-12
According to experts, there will be no need to raise power tariffs on a regular basis if losses amounting to...
Published 09 Jun, 2024 03:10am
2024-06-08-01-25
The much-trumpeted high level official visit of prime minister Shehbaz Sharif to China is at its tail end. It is a...
Published 08 Jun, 2024 07:00am
2024-06-08-01-25
My childhood remembrance of Eidul Azha goes back to the sixties. We lived then in Jacob Lines, which were government...
Published 08 Jun, 2024 07:00am