Opinion

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: Suicide is deemed Haram in Islam and there are no two opinions about it. Murder is equally haram. Islam considers murder to be the most heinous crime against a person. Therefore, let’s have no remorse for the…

Mohammed Ajeeb London: Yesterday when I was browsing through my archive I came across a quite lengthy article which was written by me about 10 years ago and published in the International Daily News London in two instalments. It…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The entire country was submerged in darkness, but according to the Minister for Energy, Khurram Dastagir, this was ‘business as usual’, a minor glitch and nothing to worry about but a ‘voltage fluctuation’.…

Ishtiaq Ahmed There is always some level of sleaziness, political corruption, misuse of privileges, bending of rules and personal aggrandisement in government circles across countries and nations. It shouldn’t be but it is the case. The…

Mohammed Ajeeb Islamabad: Both the external and internal debts of Pakistan have reached an all-time high, and foreign exchange reserves have plummeted to rock bottom. On all accounts, the economy of the country is in a perilous state,…

Editorial Pictorial Asem Mustafa Awan: These three siblings walk for miles on daily basis to obtain water. They have grown up carrying these containers because the most precious natural resource of clean water is denied to them. Their…

Ishtiaq Ahmed  At a meeting co-hosted by Islamabad and United Nations and attended by 40 private donors and financial institutions, a massive package of 10 plus billion dollars was announced to help the victims of recent floods. This…

                                                                                  Editorial Pictorial Asem Mustafa Awan: They are poor. They are hungry. They have very little money even to buy a bag of flour. They suffer…

Pictorial Editorial Shazia Mehboob: The young man in this picture is Saifur Rehman, a 2nd-year student at a technical institute in Haripur, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The youth had a dream to become a software engineer but the inability of his…

Asem Mustafa Awan President Arif Alvi has sent back the Islamabad Local Government Amendment Bill without his signature. In the Bill, the government has made amendments including increasing the number of union councils, which will…