Editorial

Time to expedite work on new Dams

The Diamer Bhasha Dam project to store water and generate electricity on the Indus River between Kohistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Diamer districts of Gilgit-Baltistan, the cornerstone of which due to difficulties in acquiring required funds and lan...

Cricket: Winds of Change

Though hockey is our national game, but cricket is the most popular sports in Pakistan and people of all age from children to youth as also senior citizens love watch cricket match. Their passion of the game of cricket known no bounds and in mega eve...

Encouraging development for energy sector

The discovery of new gas reserves in Sindh province is encouraging in the scenario that needle gas reserves are rapidly depleting. Although gas is being obtained from wells at many places, it is still less than the country's needs. There are high hop...

Formal process of privatization commences

Media reports say that the formal process for the demerger of Pakistan International Airlines began on Friday last after the Privatization Commission appointed a financial adviser for the transaction. According to a report, a consortium led by Ernst...

Pakistan facing consequences of global warming

The alarming results of the upcoming research reports regarding climate change are strongly highlighting the need to take effective measures to prevent global warming at the individual level of the countries and the planet as a whole. Pakistan has fa...

Stuck in the quagmire of decline

Despite being rich in all kinds of natural resources and talented manpower, Pakistan has been stuck in the quagmire of economic decline due to decades of political instability and lack of continuity in economic strategy due to this. It will definitel...

Increase in wheat prices: matter of concern

The increase in the price of wheat in the open market by Rs. 600 per 40 kg in five days is not a situation that should be delayed in taking immediate notice and taking necessary measures. If there are 75 lakh tonnes of wheat reserves in the country a...

Threat of Congo virus and nagleria fowleri

After eight staff members including five doctors fell victim to the Congo virus in a local hospital in Quetta and two died, the rest of the patients are undergoing treatment in Karachi. The Balochistan Health Department officials went to the hospital...

LUMS event: a case in point

The LUMS event is talk of the town and there are two points of view. One is that the students of LUMS spoke the truth, not oppressively, but raised the word right in front of the Sultan and made him helpless with sharp questions. The students fearles...

Danger to urban life

Currently, the districts of central Punjab are becoming dangerous for urban life due to air pollution, children, old people are suffering from respiratory and ear, nose and throat diseases. This series is not today, looking at the continuous increase...

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