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By Abdul Qadir Mahesar DADU: A tragic fire broke out near Dargah Malkani Sharif in the Dadu district, destroying homes of the Alkhani community and leaving two children dead while four others, including a woman, were injured. According to details, the fire erupted in houses in village Ghazi Hussain Jamali, within the jurisdiction of Jhalo police station near Dargah Malkani Sharif. The sudden blaze caused panic among residents. Two children died on the spot, while four people sustained injuries. Upon receiving information, Jhalo police reached the scene on the orders of SSP Dadu and, with the help of locals, carried…

There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a household when a young person, after years of study and sacrifice, cannot find work. It is not the silence of peace, but of something slowly breaking. A degree hangs on the wall; a résumé gathers digital dust. Hope, that most fragile of exports from the global north to the global south, begins to curdle into something harder, darker, more restless. The World Bank, that bastion of spreadsheet realism, has finally put a name and a number to this quiet catastrophe. In its annual meeting in Washington, the institution delivered…

By Sudhir Ahmed Afridi A deep analysis of the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran reveals that its consequences have never been confined to the direct combatants alone. Instead, the politics, economics and diplomacy of the entire world are being altered in real time. First and foremost stands Iran, the country most immediately devastated. Its infrastructure lies in ruins. It has suffered grievous losses of life and treasure. And most calamitous of all, its senior civilian and military leadership has been obliterated. Next in line for the heaviest toll are the Gulf states, whose economies, tourism sectors, energy…

By Shah Nasir Khisro There exists a quiet tragedy at the heart of modern Pakistan, one that rarely commands headlines but silently shapes every crisis we face, from urban flooding to food inflation to the restless tide of young men leaving their ancestral lands. This tragedy is simply this: we have forgotten where we came from. We have turned our backs on the village. In the hopeful, fledgling years after independence, Pakistan understood something that subsequent generations of policymakers seemed to lose. The nation’s backbone was not its imposing secretariats in Islamabad or the bustling bazaars of Karachi. It was…

By Syed Munawar Ali There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a neighborhood when the electricity dies. It is not a peaceful silence. It is the sound of surrender. The whir of the ceiling fan, that futile mechanical prayer against the heat, stutters and stops. The refrigerator’s low hum vanishes, leaving only the buzz of a single persistent fly. And then, almost immediately, the walls begin to exhale their stored heat, turning homes from shelters into ovens. For millions across the country, this is not an occasional inconvenience. It is the metronome of daily life, a cycle…

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By Pervaiz Mughal ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar held a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday, during which both sides reviewed the state of bilateral relations and revisited the scheduling of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s postponed visit to Moscow. According to an official statement issued by the Foreign Office, the discussion took place in a cordial tone and focused on maintaining steady high-level engagement between Islamabad and Moscow. The two leaders agreed that the proposed visit by the prime minister, which had earlier been delayed, should be rescheduled at a mutually convenient time. The trip…

By Aslam Shah KARACHI: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation (KWSC) has announced a two-day suspension of water supply in several parts of the city from Saturday, as maintenance work begins at the Dhabeji Pumping Station, a key node in Karachi’s water distribution network. In a statement issued on Friday, a KWSC spokesperson said the interruption was required to allow technical work to connect a newly constructed pipeline with the existing system at the pumping station. The work is scheduled to begin at 12 noon on April 25 and is expected to continue for 48 hours. According to the revised…

There is a particular kind of silence that falls over Islamabad when power changes hands not with the crash of a tank shell, but with the whisper of a doctor’s note. It is a muffled, expectant hush, thick with rumor and the sharp scent of opportunity. President Asif Ali Zardari, that wily and indestructible survivor of Pakistani politics, has invoked ill health. At seventy years old, a man who has spent more time in the shadow of assassination and indictment than almost any other living statesman has announced he is stepping back from the front line. The official version is…

By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal When unrest stirs deep in the human mind, it breeds chaos that clouds the heart. In that fog, the line between right and wrong blurs until justice itself feels like an afterthought, a relic not worth fighting for. It was precisely to guard against such drift that the world, scarred by unimaginable loss, forged a shared stage: the United Nations. Born in 1945 from the rubble of the Second World War, it promised a sanctuary where nations could settle scores not with bombs but with words, under the bright light of fairness. Yet even as it…