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By Dr Younis Chachar Every year on 28 July, World Hepatitis Day draws attention to one of the world’s most persistent yet preventable public health threats. The occasion is not simply a reminder of the millions living with viral hepatitis; it is a call to governments, health professionals and communities to confront the failures that allow a preventable and treatable disease to continue taking lives. The theme for World Hepatitis Day 2026, “Hepatitis: Let’s Break It Down”, carries a particularly urgent message. The barriers standing between people and prevention, testing and treatment must be removed if the world is serious…
By Muhammad Obaidullah Mirani Pakistan’s population is approaching 26 crore. The numbers are rising, cities are expanding and the proportion of young people is growing. But the more important question is whether the state is moving forward at the same pace. Population growth is a natural process; providing the people behind those numbers with schools, hospitals, employment, clean water, electricity, housing, transport and a secure future is a responsibility of the state. Pakistan has census data, but does it have a comprehensive policy built around that data? That is the question that matters. According to the 2023 census, Pakistan’s population…
The vision, courage and determination of Pakistan’s founders remain as relevant today as they were at the country’s birth. Every year, Independence Day brings those principles back into public life through speeches, ceremonies and patriotic displays. Yet the meaning of independence cannot be confined to a single day or reduced to the raising of a flag. It is ultimately a continuing national responsibility: to build a country in which freedom is accompanied by justice, dignity, opportunity and the rule of law. This year’s celebrations once again demonstrated the strength of Pakistanis’ attachment to their country. From Islamabad and Lahore to…
By Dr. Zawwar Hussain O! Founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, our gratitude to you can never be fully expressed in words. You did more than secure a piece of territory. You opened the way for the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent to build a homeland in which they could preserve their identity, practise their faith freely and determine their political future with dignity. The creation of Pakistan was not simply a change on the map. It was the culmination of a long political and intellectual struggle, sustained by sacrifice, discipline and an unwavering belief in self-determination. On 14…
By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal Pakistan was achieved on the fourteenth of August in the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven, after sacrifices of a magnitude that still stir the soul and a struggle whose tirelessness remains an enduring lesson. Millions crossed borders in those turbulent months, leaving behind ancestral homes, familial graves and the familiar soil of generations so that a new homeland might rise where Muslims could live according to their faith and their free will. We stand now upon the threshold of the eighth decade of that hard-won independence. I, a Pakistani by birth and by conviction, have myself…
By M Rashid Tabassum Every year on August 14, Pakistan celebrates Independence Day with flag-hoisting ceremonies, national songs, green and white decorations and patriotic enthusiasm. These celebrations are an important expression of national pride. However, Independence Day should not be limited to festivities or memories of the past. It should also be a time to reflect on why Pakistan was created, what its founding ideals were and what responsibility falls upon us today. The creation of Pakistan was not simply a change of borders or a transfer of political power. Muslims of the subcontinent struggled for a separate homeland where…
The defence and strategic agreement concluded in Makkah between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye has attracted attention well beyond the three countries that signed it. That is itself an indication of its importance. In a region accustomed to military alliances, shifting partnerships and strategic rivalries, a new security arrangement is bound to be examined through the prism of the conflicts already shaping the Middle East. Yet the more important question is not whether the agreement will change the regional balance of power. It is whether it can help change the political habits that have kept the region trapped in insecurity…
By Dawood Khan Batozai For more than three decades, Pakistan has fought a disease that should have been consigned to history. Polio is preventable, the vaccine is inexpensive and effective, and repeated campaigns have brought the world close to eradication. Yet Pakistan and Afghanistan remain the only countries where wild poliovirus continues to circulate. That failure is usually described in terms of missed children, refusals, insecurity and weak campaign performance. Those explanations matter, but they do not tell the whole story. The deeper problem is trust. Polio cannot be eradicated by vaccines alone when the communities that need them most…