Abdul Waris

After the Peshawar attack, in which terrorists attacked the very soft target of a school to inflict a significant blow to the morale of a beleaguered nation that has been fighting against terrorism for last decade, everyone has become frightened about any such repeated, heinous attacks causing a wave of uncertainty and fear among parents […]

Whatever we saw in Lahore on December 15 was really worrisome not only for the inhabitants of the city but also for the whole country. Burning tyres, road blockades, beating rickshaw drivers and hooliganism were all witnessed on the streets of the city but these actions did not do any good to the cause of […]

After losing thousands of lives and billions of dollars in the war on terrorism, and facing the uphill challenges of floods, inflation and the energy crisis, our economy has been crippled for over a decade, finally to show dismal economic growth in a region with ever-rising unemployment. Finally there are some positives appearing that seem […]

Recent media reports indicate that the International Health Committee (IHC) has banned Pakistani nationals from travelling abroad without possessing a polio certificate and has held Pakistan responsible for spreading this disease across the globe. This certificate would mean that the traveller has received polio drops and is therefore safe to travel. On the other hand, […]

Indirect taxes are those that are levied on consumption or spending of the people as they are included in the prices of goods and services. Their burden eventually falls on the consumer when he/she buys those goods. Taxes such as sales tax, tariffs and petroleum development levy, etc, have been blamed for significant price hikes […]

Due to its prominently poor rural population, Pakistan is regarded as one of the poorest countries in the world where about half of the population lives below the poverty line and finds it difficult to make both ends meet. Due to a rise in unemployment, terrorism and long power and gas outages, the life of […]

Balochistan gushes blood and there seems no imminent desire by Pakistani civilian or military leaders to stem that bleeding. In yet another round of brutality, eight dirt-poor people from the beleaguered Shia Hazara community of Quetta were singled out for their faith, identified by their unmistakably mongoloid facial features and slaughtered by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) […]

The present government took charge on June 5, 2013 after gaining a significant victory in the general elections mainly on the back of promises made to overturn all inefficiencies and economic mismanagement by the previous regime, which had made the life of the common man miserable. By virtue of the same, it has inherited many […]