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By Dr. Zawwar Hussain There are landscapes that impress, and then there are those that endure — not simply in memory, but in the quieter corners of thought. Along Pakistan’s southern edge, where the land yields to the sea, the Makran Coastal Highway unfolds as one such place: less a road than a slow, reflective passage through time, terrain and temperament. Cut across the vast expanse of Balochistan, the highway stretches for more than 650 kilometers, linking Karachi to Gwadar. It is often compared with celebrated coastal drives such as Great Ocean Road or Pacific Coast Highway, yet the comparison…

By Shah Nasir Khisro Many countries are falling behind in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and development discourse is already beginning to shift towards a post-SDG framework. This growing concern has been further intensified by geopolitical instability, particularly the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, which have disrupted global economic recovery. Rising fuel prices, inflationary pressures and constrained fiscal space are disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries—especially across South Asia and Africa—where development gains remain fragile. Recent analyses from institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund highlight that global economic shocks are reversing progress on…

By Muhammad Asif Iqbal As Pakistan edges towards its Budget for 2026–27, a familiar tension resurfaces in the machinery of the state: the uneasy balance between the center and the provinces. Fiscal federalism, once heralded as a cornerstone of democratic devolution, now appears caught in a quiet but consequential paralysis. The 11th National Finance Commission (NFC), formed in August 2025 with cautious optimism, has yet to deliver what it was convened for — a new consensus award. Meetings have been held, working groups assembled, and technical papers circulated, yet the outcome remains elusive. With time running short, it is increasingly…

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There is a particular kind of fatigue that settles over the foreign correspondent. It is not the exhaustion of travel, though that is real enough. It is the heavier, more corrosive tiredness that comes from watching the same tragedies loop endlessly, like a newsreel stuck on its spool. You see it in the Gaza briefing rooms, in the smoky corridors of Geneva, in the careful, empty language of UN resolutions that condemn everything and change nothing. We have become, as a profession and as a public, connoisseurs of the intractable. So when a story arrives that does not fit the…

By Abdul Qadir Mahesar DADU: Barrister Pir Mujeeb-ul-Haq, a member of the Sindh Assembly and chairman of the Standing Committee on Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Human Rights, visited Ustad Bukhari Government Degree College in Dadu, where he reviewed ongoing development projects at the institution. He was accompanied by local figures including Khalid Mirani, Sardar Rajab Khan Shahani and other party officials. During the visit, he inspected the development work in detail and expressed satisfaction over the quality of construction. He directed the relevant officials to ensure that all projects were completed on time and to high standards so that improved…

Israr Ahmed Orakzai HANGU: A member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly, Shah Turab Khan, visited the local office of the Benazir Income Support Programme in Hangu following public complaints, where he met staff and reviewed ongoing matters in detail. He directed officials to treat citizens with courtesy and to resolve their issues promptly and transparently, making it clear that any negligence or delay would not be tolerated. He said deserving individuals should receive their entitlements on time and that all obstacles in this regard must be removed immediately. Residents also presented their concerns during the visit, upon which the lawmaker…

By Mujeeb Rahman Qambrani MEHAR: A farewell ceremony was organised by the Mehar Bar Association in honour of Additional Sessions Judge Syed Aijaz Ali Shah following his transfer from Mehar. The ceremony was attended by Senior Civil Judge Syed Haider Ali Shah, Civil Judges/Judicial Magistrates Muhammad Azeem Solangi and Aijaz Ali Tunio, along with Mehar Bar President Pir Bakhsh Solangi, General Secretary Dad Muhammad Magsi, and a large number of senior and junior lawyers including Saeed Panhwar, Muhammad Ali Kandhro, Abdul Khaliq Bughio, Sajid Mahesar, Amjad Hussain Balhro, Ali Anwar Sahar, Lal Shah, Rizwan Tunio and Najeeb Mahesar. Addressing the…

By Mujeeb Rahman Qambrani MEHAR: A long-running dispute over the division of agricultural land, shops, houses and plots among cousins, uncles and nephews in village Juma Lakhair village near Mehar has remained unresolved, leading to rising tensions between the families. One group staged a protest demanding justice. Residents of the village, Sajid Hussain Lakhair and his father Abdul Majeed Lakhair, reached the National Press Club Mehar and protested, saying the disputed property was their ancestral inheritance. They alleged that their relatives, including Altaf Lakhair, Liaquat Lakhair, Ejaz Lakhair, Aftab Lakhair, Sadaqat Lakhair, Abdul Rasheed Lakhair and Abdul Aziz Lakhair had…

There is a peculiar silence that descends over Western foreign policy discourse whenever the subject turns to the eastern Mediterranean. It is a silence not born of ignorance, but of complicity. For months, the editorial pages of this newspaper and others across the continent have filled with careful, measured language about “escalation,” “de-escalation,” and the tragic but necessary “self-defence” of this or that party. Yet, in that careful dance of diplomacy, we have lost the plot entirely. We have inverted morality. We have, through the sheer exhaustion of repetition, allowed the aggressor to pose as the victim. It is time…