Opinion & Analysis

Pakistan's growing cancer burden demands urgent, coordinated action. With estimates of about 185,000 new cases and 118,000 deaths per year, the absence of a unified national cancer registry has long...

It is one of Pakistan's most enduring questions. Should the state bring government closer to the people by carving out new provinces, or by finally empowering local institutions that already...

As a child growing up in suburban Japan, Satoshi Tajiri was deeply fascinated by insects. He would spend hours collecting them, observing their behaviour, and studying their habitats; an activity...

Last week we discussed India's desire for a pliant Pakistan; its persistent policy of 'hedging' by benefiting from all power centres; its presumed aspiration of 'strategic autonomy' in a world,...

September 9 eventually turned out to be Nepal's August 5 moment. If it needs to be elaborated, it was on August 5, 2024 when Bangladeshi Prime Minister Shaikh Hasina Wajed...

Despite years of operations and countless claims of "decisive action", the dacoit menace in Sindh's riverine belt remains as entrenched as ever. It is only after nature unleashed its devastation...

Parachinar, the capital of District Kurram in Kohat Division of K-P, has long stood as a grim symbol of the country's unresolved sectarian conflict. Over the years, this once peaceful...

Four Supreme Court judges are now publicly lamenting over non-participation in the affairs of superior judiciary. The honourable judges have, in a letter to the Chief Justice, brought to the...

In public discussions about education, we often hear about the "information revolution". We are told that students today are luckier than ever before, with instant access to books, articles, lectures,...

The world is in the midst of a momentous and complex metamorphosis, a "Zeitenwende" — a historic turning point as former German chancellor Olaf Scholz proclaimed on 27 February 2022 following...