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By Wadood Mehsud UPPER SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Several government vehicles belonging to the local government and rural development department and the tehsil municipal administration were found lying unused for a long period in Makeen, raising concerns after reports that hundreds of thousands of rupees had been withdrawn from the public exchequer in the name of repairs and fuel. According to sources, the vehicles had remained parked for a long time within the premises of the tehsil building and were not being used for any form of public service. Despite this, expenses were regularly shown against them, giving rise to fears of…

Pervaiz Mughal ISLAMABAD: Sindh Minister for Health and Population Welfare Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho on Thursday lauded the efforts of OIC-COMSTECH in promoting cooperation between Pakistan and China in the fields of health, science and traditional medicine. Dr Azra expressed these views during her visit to the COMSTECH Secretariat, where she attended an interactive session with an 11-member Chinese delegation comprising experts in traditional Chinese medicine, public health and nutrition. The delegation is visiting Pakistan under COMSTECH initiatives aimed at strengthening cooperation in health, science and technology between the two countries. Dr Pechuho highlighted ongoing initiatives of the Sindh government…

By Zahid Karani KARACHI: The English Speaking Union of Pakistan (ESUP) hosted Senator Sherry Rehman, chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change, as the guest speaker at a recent session held at the Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi. The event was attended by ESUP members, diplomats, business leaders, academics and civil society representatives. Patron-in-chief Aziz Memon welcomed the guest speaker. President ESUP, Pervez Madraswala, introduced Senator Sherry Rehman and highlighted ESUP’s longstanding role in promoting dialogue, education and international understanding through the English language. Senator Sherry Rehman delivered a talk titled ‘Navigating War and Peace’. Addressing current global tensions,…

By Dr Zawwar Hussain There is a moment, just before dawn, when the sky holds its breath. The darkness is at its deepest, but a thin line of gold on the eastern rim promises that light is on its way. For a nation that has so often felt trapped in that pre-dawn gloom, wrestling with floods, debt, and the exhausting arithmetic of survival, the promise of a new beginning is not just welcome. It is necessary. And so it is with quiet, almost startled pride that we learn of Pakistan’s first human space mission, slated for the end of this…

By Asghar Ali Mubarak There is an old saying in diplomacy that when you hear the sound of boots, you should immediately talk of poetry. However, when the boots belong to the United States and Iran, and the ground shaking beneath them is the Strait of Hormuz, poetry will not fill a fuel tank. What is needed is something far rarer: a trusted voice, a quiet room, and the stubborn refusal to let the world burn while everyone argues about who lit the match. For the past two months, since war erupted on February 28, that voice has belonged, unexpectedly,…

By Khpalwak Mohmand Every nation carries a story about itself. Some stories are written in constitutions, others are carved into barracks walls. And then there are those stories that are never written down at all, the ones whispered in kitchen conversations when the electricity fails again, or muttered in waiting rooms of public hospitals where medicine is always out of stock. Pakistan, seventy-nine years after its creation, still cannot decide which story is true. Is it an Islamic democratic state, as its official name declares? Is it a welfare state, as its founding fathers promised? Or has it quietly, almost…

There is a certain theater to the great cartels of the world. OPEC, for all its technical jargon and barrel counts, has always been a stage for a very human drama: the struggle between collective restraint and individual greed, between the long game of price stability and the short, sharp thrill of a full tanker leaving port. So when the United Arab Emirates announced its departure from the organization, the immediate instinct was to read it as a crack in the crumbling facade. Another member walking out. Another blow to the old order. However, look closer, past the headlines and…

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There is a particular quality to the silence that has settled over the White House these past few days. It is not the silence of a man resting, but the silence of a man counting. Donald Trump, when asked about the ticking clock over the Persian Gulf, reached for the most toxic metaphor in the American political imagination: Vietnam. Eighteen years, he mused. That is how long the last great quagmire took. The remark, tossed out like a half-chewed cigar, was meant to sound like a warning. However, to those listening in Islamabad, Tehran, and Beijing, it sounded like something…

By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal In the quiet recesses of memory, there are places that time never quite succeeds in erasing. In the heart of Lahore’s old Ichhra, where narrow lanes wind through a living tapestry of history, one such memory continues to breathe with remarkable freshness. It belongs to a man who, having moved with his family from Delhi Gate in 1976, found his childhood shaped by the rhythms and rituals of a neighbourhood deeply rooted in tradition. Among the most vivid of these recollections is the annual Urs of Baba Shah Kamal, which in the early 1980s would transform…