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Terrorism ranking [/b]

IT is an unenviable ‘achievement’. According to the Global Terrorism Index 2025, Pakistan stands second in the world — just behind Burkina Faso, and just ahead of Syria — in the ranking of countries affected by militant violence. Moreover, according to the index, the banned ...

Road ahead [/b]

PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif recently celebrated his government’s one-year performance scorecard as a testament to its success in “steering the country out of multiple crises”. He spoke glowingly on the macroeconomic stabilisation achieved thus far, which has been made possible ...

Demand for solar power [/b]

A GREAT solar rush across Pakistan is transforming the nation’s energy landscape. Households and businesses are rapidly switching to solar energy for a cheaper and reliable power supply. With 22 GW of solar panels imported in the last 18 months, the country is going ...

IMF scrutiny [/b]

AN IMF delegation is in Islamabad to assess progress on the Fund’s ongoing $7bn funding programme amidst hopes that the review will not encounter any serious obstacles that could delay the next tranche.

The mission will evaluate how Pakistan has done on quantitative performance ...

Cold world [/b]

WESTERN countries do not have a heart for poor, non-white migrants. A recent BBC News report comprising leaked audios exposes the complicity of Greek authorities in the botched rescue attempts for the Adriana, which sank with 700 people onboard in 2023; 350 were Pakistanis and only ...

The vanquished [/b]

IT should be becoming more and more obvious to anyone following the judiciary’s new direction that the critics of the 26th Amendment were justified in fearing that it would be abused by the government.

Ever since its enactment, it has become progressively more difficult to ...

Haqqania bombing [/b]

THE bombing of Darul Uloom Haqqania in KP’s Nowshera district on Friday marks a departure from the recent trend of militants targeting mostly security personnel and government officials.

A number of victims lost their lives in the tragedy, including Maulana Hamidul Haq ...

Grotesque vision [/b]

THE Trump administration has sunk to a new low in its cavalier approach to the Gaza crisis. It seems all sense has been lost on the US president, who shared on his social media an AI-generated video depicting a dystopian ‘Trump Gaza’. The land is shown as a beachfront ...

The challenge before banks [/b]

THE gap is huge, to say the least. And those who own Pakistani banks, and the bankers who work for them, do not seem to be cognisant of — let alone prepared for — the challenges being unleashed by rapid tech disruptions led by the emergence of AI. Not that they do ...

Deadly roads [/b]

DRIVING in Karachi can be hazardous, with chaos on the roads, and very little by way of following rules and regulations. Over the past few weeks, there have been several deadly accidents, mostly involving heavy vehicles, with the latest accident occurring on Tuesday, when an ...