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By Hania Ajaz Pakistan may be overlooking a strategically significant opportunity with the potential to reshape its blue economy: marine bioprospecting. While commonly framed as the simple idea of extracting useful compounds from marine life, it is, however, a far more substantial domain. It operates at the intersection of marine biotechnology, high-value bioproducts, and pharmaceuticals. Globally, each of these domains is part of multi-billion-dollar industries. Contemporary projections indicate that marine biotechnology alone is expected to reach a valuation of approximately 11.21 billion dollars by 2031. With a coastline of over 1,000 kilometers and an Exclusive Economic Zone of approximately 240,000…

By Muhammad Obaidullah Mirani A recent and deeply troubling incident at Jinnah Hospital in Karachi, where a woman reportedly gave birth in a hospital washroom, has once again exposed the fragile state of Pakistan’s public healthcare system. The episode, which emerged through an inquiry report, is not only being debated in terms of individual responsibility or administrative negligence, but also as part of a much wider and more uncomfortable pattern that has become increasingly difficult to ignore. According to the inquiry findings, the woman arrived at the hospital around 9:30 in the evening but did not receive timely medical attention.…

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By Aslam Shah KARACHI: Despite explicit directives issued by the Chief Minister of Sindh, an inquiry into the controversial appointment of the Registrar at Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari (BBSUL) has yet to begin, raising concerns over governance, transparency, and adherence to merit in public-sector higher education institutions. According to official correspondence, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had directed the Vice Chancellor to submit an inquiry report within three days following complaints lodged by Members of the Provincial Assembly Muhammad Asif Khan and Yousuf Baloch regarding the direct appointment of a Grade-20 Registrar. However, more than a month…

By Moin Ullah Shah KARACHI: Police in Karachi’s Korangi district arrested four members of a motorcycle-lifting gang during an intelligence-based operation in Sector 2/34 near Badshah Bazaar Ground, Korangi No. 3, officials said on Monday. According to police, the operation was carried out by Korangi Police Station after receiving confidential information about the presence of an organised group allegedly involved in motorcycle theft across different parts of the district. The arrested suspects were identified as Haji Wazir Ahmed, son of Manzoor Ahmed; Majid Hussain, son of Mujahid; Sohail Ahmed, son of Zahid Hussain; and Haider Ali, son of Nazakat Ali.…

By Atiq Raja Few architects have altered the visual language of cities as profoundly as Antoni Gaudí. His buildings do not sit quietly within Barcelona. They seem to grow out of it, twisting upwards like natural formations that have somehow learned to hold themselves together in stone. More than a century after his death, his work still resists easy categorisation. It is part architecture, part sculpture, and part dream. Gaudí was born in 1852 in Catalonia, a region of Spain where craft traditions shaped everyday life. His father was a coppersmith, and from an early age Gaudí observed how metal…

The federal government’s decision to introduce a fixed tax scheme for small shopkeepers arrives at a moment when Pakistan’s economy is already moving through a narrow corridor of strain, where inflation remains sticky, business activity is subdued and uncertainty continues to shape both policy expectations and everyday commercial life. Presented as a simplification of a notoriously complex tax system, the new framework is also, in practice, a renewed attempt to widen the country’s fragile tax base by drawing in segments of the informal economy that have long sat outside consistent enforcement. At its core, the scheme offers a uniform one…

By Dr. Zawwar Hussain The world is entering a dangerous phase where water is no longer a limitless gift but a shrinking resource that is beginning to define the survival of nations and people. A recent global report by the United Nations University Institute for Water Environment and Health has warned that humanity is moving toward what it calls water bankruptcy. This means that human demand is exceeding the natural ability of ecosystems to replenish freshwater supplies. Rivers are shrinking, groundwater is falling and wetlands are disappearing at a pace that is difficult to reverse. This is not only an…

By Dr. Nazia Sher World Oceans Day 2026 arrives at a moment when the world is being forced to rethink its most basic assumptions about the sea. This year’s theme, Reimagine, Beyond the World We Know, A New Relationship with Our Ocean, reflects a growing recognition that the ocean is not simply a storehouse of resources but the foundation of life on Earth, shaping climate systems, food security and the stability of entire economies. The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the planet and produces at least half of the oxygen humans breathe. It also absorbs a significant share…