OP-ED

Iraq’s moment in the football sun

For the first time since 1979, Iraq is hosting a major global event - the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup. To say Iraq has been through devastation in recent years would be an understatement. The Middle Eastern nation, proudly crowned as the cradle of civilisa...

Ukraine and Saudi Arabia: Broadening horizons of cooperation

One more year of Ukrainian-Saudi relations has come to an end. The past year’s high-speed, turbulent pace was dictated by a complex set of internal and external factors affecting the agendas of each country, which neither had ever experienced b...

Farha and the story of the Palestinian collaborator

On December 1, 2022, Netflix released the film Farha, Darin Sallam’s first full-length feature and Jordan’s entry into the Oscars. Like many diaspora Palestinians and our allies, I rushed to watch it, and I loved it. The film is based on...

‘He led by example, and left a living legacy’

Born in 1920, orphaned at 2, brought up by a remarkable young widowed mother who kept her late husband’s business running, mentored by his older brother (Abdul Hameed), young Mohammed Said, after his initial schooling, studied and trained in Un...

Good show by Green Shirts against Kiwis

Cricket is the most popular sport in Pakistan and it gains added significance when there is home series at home ground. The latest back-to-back home cricket series i.e. against England and New Zealand are cases in point. The matches of both these ser...

Sino-Pak ties and CPEC project

There is no denying the game-changer mega China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was victim of undue snags and delays during the previous PTI regime. However, it is welcome to see that the current coalition government is pay due attention to  t...

Syria’s stakeholders divided over Turkiye rapprochement

Throughout the past decade, Turkish foreign policy has gone through crucial predicaments. The crisis at its doorstep, in Syria, has been the main reason for this. The Syrian crisis has had several implications for Turkiye on different levels: Worseni...

NATO should renew its commitment to Kosovo

On December 10, ethnic Serbs started setting up roadblocks in northern Kosovo, near the Serbian border, to protest against the arrest of an ethnic Serb former police officer. The situation soon escalated into a dangerous standoff between Kosovo and S...

Domestic ferocity

Domestic violence denotes to the 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 cont...

Partnership Advantages (Part-II)

Partnership is a type of business entity in which a single business includes two or more persons share ownership or we can say it is an association that compromises of two or more persons. “Partnership is the relation between (or among) persons...

NC Big Stories

Late buying helps KSE 100 index cut losses

KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) experienced another turbulent session on Tuesday, with the KSE-100 Index seeing significant fluctuations before closing down by 202 points. The market started on a positive note, reaching an intra-day high o...

Gold price per tola gains Rs1,000

KARACHI: Gold prices in Pakistan saw an increase on Tuesday, following a rise in international rates. In the local market, the price of gold per tola rose by Rs1,000, reaching Rs276,000. Similarly, the price of 10-gram gold increased by Rs857, settl...

NEPRA cuts electricity tariffs

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has announced a reduction in electricity prices under the monthly Fuel Price Adjustment (FCA), providing relief to consumers. For consumers of government-owned Distribution Companie...

Govt to abolish 150,000 vacant posts, says Aurangzeb

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, announced on Tuesday that the government will abolish 150,000 vacant positions across various government departments as part of a comprehensive strategy to reduce federa...
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