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By Amir Muhammad Khan On the world map, Pakistan is often seen through the lens of problems, political tensions, and economic challenges, but this picture is not complete. The fact is that Pakistan is a country of immense potential, youthful energy, natural resources, and vast opportunities for development. What is required is to highlight its positive identity to the world, and perhaps more importantly, to believe in it internally. Pakistan’s greatest strength lies in its young population. The country has a large demographic of young people who are not only full of energy and ambition but are also increasingly equipped…
By Nanjo Mal Suicide in Pakistan is no longer a marginal concern discussed in the shadows of public policy. It has become a growing social emergency, one that is increasingly visible in both rural and urban settings, yet still insufficiently understood in its depth and complexity. Nowhere is this more stark than in Tharparkar, a region in Sindh where long-standing deprivation, environmental stress and institutional neglect have combined to produce a crisis that is as quiet as it is devastating. Tharparkar is often described in administrative language as a drought-prone district, but such terminology barely captures the lived reality of…
Marka-e-Haq, Dar says, has moved beyond symbolism into a defining national moment shaped by sacrifice, discipline and a shared sense of resolve By Pervaiz Mughal ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar said on Wednesday that the first anniversary of Marka-e-Haq had served as a reminder of Pakistan’s unity, military resolve and diplomatic posture during last year’s confrontation with India, describing the episode as a defining chapter in the country’s recent history. Addressing the occasion to mark the anniversary, Dar said the events surrounding Marka-e-Haq had gone beyond symbolism and continued to resonate as a national…
By Israr Ahmad Orakzai HANGU: Six people, including children, were killed and 18 others injured after militants fired mortar shells in the Darozi area near Hangu, officials and local sources said. The attack took place about 30 kilometres from Hangu during the day, when mortar rounds were fired into the area, causing casualties among civilians. Local residents rushed to the scene and began rescue efforts, shifting the injured and the bodies to the district hospital. Those critically wounded were later transferred to hospitals in Kohat and Peshawar for further treatment. The angry residents blocked the main road in protest, but…
By Pervaiz Mughal ISLAMABAD: Chief of Defence Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir is expected to make an important announcement related to national security and defence during a special ceremony in the federal capital on May 10, marking the first anniversary of Marka-e-Haq. According to reports, the event will feature a fly-past by Pakistan Air Force aircraft that played a major role during last year’s military confrontation, including operations involving Indian Rafale fighter jets. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, service chiefs, federal ministers and provincial chief ministers are expected to attend the ceremony. The prime minister is also expected to deliver a…
In South Asia’s strategic imagination, wars are never confined to the battlefield. They extend into television studios, social media feeds, political speeches and the quiet corridors of diplomatic missions, where interpretation often matters as much as fact. It is within this broader ecosystem that talk of a “battle of truth” has begun circulating in sections of Pakistani commentary, framing a recent confrontation with India as something more than a military episode. In this telling, it becomes a symbolic rupture in the established assumptions of modern warfare, a moment said to have unsettled conventional thinking about power, deterrence and technological dominance.…
By S.M. Inam The death of media pioneer Ted Turner at the age of 87 marked the end of an era in global broadcasting, closing the chapter on a figure who fundamentally altered the architecture of modern television news. Few media executives exercised such a lasting influence over the rhythms of contemporary journalism as Turner, whose creation of the Cable News Network in 1980 transformed not only the mechanics of broadcasting but the relationship between audiences and world events themselves. According to reports carried by Reuters and confirmed through a statement issued by Turner Enterprises, no official cause of death…
By Mehrab Shah Afridi Midwives occupy a paradoxical position in Pakistan’s health landscape: indispensable in practice, yet frequently peripheral in policy imagination. They are present at moments of profound biological and emotional intensity—birth, complication, survival, loss—yet their labor rarely translates into sustained institutional recognition. In rural districts, peri-urban settlements and underserved communities, they remain the most immediate point of contact for maternal care, often bridging the gap between life and death in settings where formal health systems are distant, overstretched or absent altogether. On the occasion of the International Day of the Midwife on 5 May, this tension becomes harder…
By Fariha Aqib Victory Day, observed on 9 May, is more than a ceremonial date marked in calendars or a fixed ritual of state remembrance. It functions instead as a sustained act of historical memory, one that insists on returning the present to the moral and material reality of the past. It is a day shaped by absence as much as presence, by silence as much as sound, and by the uneasy weight of what was endured in order for a future to exist at all. At its core, Victory Day commemorates the defeat of fascism in the Second World…