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Thousands of schools swept by flash floods

As if corona pandemic was not enough to play havoc with the future of students, the natural calamities in the form of unprecedented rains and flash floods have damaged thousands of schools across the country, resulting in cancellation and suspension...

Recent Floods: ‘National Tragedy’

Recent floods in Pakistan were a disaster. They visit our country quite frequently. We live in modern age, which is remarkable for its scientific advancement but man has failed to overcome floods completely. However, we can set aside adverse results...

Domestic ferocity - Matter of concern

Domestic ferocity denotes to violence and abuse which happens in a domestic setting like cohabitation or marriage. It is important to remember that domestic violence is not just physical but any kind of behaviour that tries to gain power and control...

Better late than never

Along with other crimes, rape cases have risen at alarming level in our society. Hundreds, rather thousands of cases are reported every year while the actual number must be very high as most of the incidents go unnoticed and unreported due to societa...

India’s latest bid to malign Pakistan

The so-called world’s biggest secular state of India is busy in its bids to manipulate and to force-regulate the Internet which has come to fore last week. As a matter of fact, these latest reports concerning Indian Government  attempts to...

Actual demonstrative governance necessity for honour of Pakistan

Pakistan a great country that luckily we were blessed with has been almost reduced to banana state. No external power should be blamed, it is for our own reckless behaviour that has done it so. Lust of power, greed, self-interests above national inte...

Criminality Prompts - public syndrome

Crime is a major source of insecurity and fluster in every society. There is no doubt that crime urge huge monetary and psychological costs on society. Crimes have always plagued every society in human history. History of crime is as old as history o...

Data theft at SECP

It is very unfortunate that cybercrimes are becoming rampant with the passage of time. The recent theft of data at SECP is a case in point. An investigative report reveals that the data stolen from the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan's...

Confusion prevails as yet

The National Medical Collages Admission Test 2022 was scheduled to begin from Sept 7 but reports say that it has been delayed due to the ongoing floods situation in the country. Moreover, after the passage of bill titled “Pakistan Medical and D...

Electricity consumers in a fix

Protest demonstrations against inflated electricity bills in Karachi and other cities have become intense as the newly-announced electricity policies under which the fuel price adjustment (FPA) and other taxes on the electricity bills, have  res...

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Bilawal stresses need to overcome national divisions for consensus

LAHORE: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that deep-rooted divisions in the country remain the biggest obstacle to achieving consensus. During a meeting with party officials, senior PPP leaders  Sajjad-ul-Has...

CM Murad, Italian CG discuss investment, trade relations

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Murad Ali Shah and the newly appointed Consul General of Italy Fabrizio agreed to further coordinate their efforts to facilitate investment in Sindh. In a meeting held here at CM House yesterday, the CM Sindh and It...

MQM-P leader writes to CJP over alarming rise in traffic fatalities

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) leader and Deputy Parliamentary Leader in the Sindh Assembly, Taha Ahmed Khan, has written a letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan, urging him to take suo motu notice of the rising number of deadly...

ECP disqualifies 24 ex-lawmakers

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has disqualified 24 former members of the National and Provincial Assemblies for failing to submit their asset and liability declarations for the fiscal year 2022-2023, yesterday. According to an o...
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