Right to shelterPrime Minister Imran Khan this week launched the Naya Pakistan Housing Programme. The goal is to construct five million low-cost homes over the next five years. It is, in his words, an ambitious proje...
Coming clean at the IMFThe ruling PTI has finally ended the suspense. Pakistan has now formally approached the IMF for a $12 billion-bailout. The bad news is that the country may need up to $20bn to stem economic haemorrhag...
Justice for Viktoria MarinovaA second suspect has been arrested for the rape and murder of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova. A twenty-one-year-old man holding the same nationality was picked up by the German authorities nea...
Anomaly: the’suomoto’ jurisdictionThe seemingly unfettered scope of unique ‘suomoto’ jurisdiction in our Pakistan Constitution, Article 184 (3), strikes at the very foundations of our republican form of government. Jurisdiction is the...
Environmentalism and the EucalyptusLove is intoxicating but when taken to blind excess, it can become toxic. Trendy or errant environmentalism also fall in the same category. Here are some interesting facts. Environment as a proper and...