Editorial

Food authorities routinely seize expired food items being used in restaurants, both known and not so famous, across Pakistan. That is a matter of playing with the lives of people. Now, an equally abhorrent practice of using or selling expired medicines is likely to be adopted at private hospitals, as per a report by the […]

The three-day 5th Faiz International Festival concluded on Sunday providing a much-needed occasion to the members of the public to discuss issues pertaining to a better today and a safer tomorrow. Packed halls, appreciative audience and learned panelists provided the perfect ambience for making Lahore the City of Literature, as has been declared by Unesco. […]

Islamabad is now cleared of the protestors that stayed there for two weeks, led by the JUI-F. The underreported fact is that during these two weeks, no untoward incident took place either at the sit-in site or in the city, which is a result of effective policing. Over 5,000 policemen were called in from Punjab, […]

Pakistan’s relative calm is now occasionally breached with blasts or targeted killings in Balochistan. On Friday, it was again in the grip of bloodshed when two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were martyred and five others injured in an explosion in Quetta’s Kuchlak area. The explosion is believed to be caused by an improvised explosive device […]

Rain has always been good news for water starved Pakistan, especially the drought-hit Thar region. Occasionally, nature’s thunder brings death and destruction, mostly hitting the poor segments. These deaths, however, stem from roof collapses, electrocution, drowning and flashfloods. Off and on, lightening also chips in its share in deaths. For the first time, late on […]

The Rs50 per maund increase in the minimum wheat support price by the Economic Coordination Committee is insufficient for formers and hardly “safeguard growers’ interests”. After a considerable increase in the prices of inputs like seed, fertiliser, electricity and fuel (to irrigate farms) and insecticide, farmers were expecting a substantial increase in the support price. […]

He came, he saw, he left. The 13-day sit-in by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F (JUI-F) will be remembered as the most futile political exercise in recent times. In fact, since its inception, the Azadi March looked devoid of any political strategy. JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman did not pay heed to the advice of Pakistan Peoples’ […]

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has offered some timely wisdom to Prime Minister Imran Khan, cautioning him against unnecessarily prolonging the process for allowing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to leave the country for treatment. He said that Khan should not wear a cross that he may be unable to put off […]

The World Pneumonia Day reminds us that Pakistan is among the top five countries where pneumonia kills children under-five years old every year. Last year, 409,000 children under-five died in Pakistan from different diseases, and pneumonia topped the grim death chart with 16 per cent. The preventable but deadly and ‘forgotten’ disease claims one young […]

Misappropriation of funds hardly makes headlines in our part of the world. But when the embezzlement is related to education and health funds, it should be a matter of shame for the whole society. And when a prestigious institution like the Government College University (GCU) Lahore is in the news because of dubious payments to […]