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KARACHI: A road project promising to bring relief to the city’s traffic problems has become the centre of a tense confrontation, with a clash between Pakistan Railways (PR) police and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) City Wardens, threatening to derail construction just weeks before its schedu...
Many Pakistani economists had tipped Susan Athey, celebrated for her groundbreaking work on internet search auctions and digital marketplaces, for this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics. However, the winners, American economists, Michael Woodford and Robert Hall, also command a devoted following among...
Rice is Pakistan’s second-largest crop after wheat and the country’s largest agricultural export commodity. For decades, the Punjab government consistently enforced a ban on raising rice nurseries before May 20 under the Punjab Agricultural Pests Ordinance, 1959, and its 1960 Rules. Its violation wa...
Pakistan needs infrastructure. It also has little fiscal space to pay for it. In FY25, federal development expenditure was about Rs1.05 trillion, compared with current expenditure of more than Rs15.8tr. That combination makes public-private partnerships (PPPs) particularly attractive, and potentiall...
AS plans for large data centres take shape in Pakistan, the debate has centred on jobs and investment, while a more basic concern has received little attention: water. Why would a data centre compete for water? Computing generates heat, and evaporating water is one of the most cost-effective ways to...
An army major was martyred and four terrorists were killed during intelligence-based operations in Balochistan, the military’s media wing said on Monday. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that security forces conducted a series of operations in areas of Shadi Kaur and Pa...
HISTORY, it has famously been said, repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce. Today, it is repeating itself in Pakistan as both tragedy and farce. Recent events have deepened some of the country’s overlapping fault lines — enduring features that have shaped its political landscape for decad...
• Clifton residents, environmentalists stage rally to protest construction at key waterway• Demand suspension of work until EIA is conducted and project details are made public KARACHI: Expressing concern over construction at Nehr-i-Khayyam, an open drain in Clifton’s Block 5, residents and environm...
EVEN 128 years after his death, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan lives on. Born on Oct 17, 1817, Sir Syed passed away in 1898, but he has been endowed with Hayaat-i-Javed, or the eternal life, it seems. True to its name, Hayaat-i-Javed (1901), Sir Syed’s biography penned by Altaf Husain Hali, too, along with Sir...
QUETTA: As many as 18 labourers working at a marble mine in the Naal area, about 40 kilometres from Khuzdar city, were kidnapped on Sunday, police said. A large group of armed men entered the mine premises, held the labourers at gunpoint and abducted 18 of them, along with the son of a mine factory’...
“WE will eat grass or leaves, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own … We have no other choice!” Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had famously remarked as he voiced this nation’s determination to build an indigenous nuclear deterrent programme that had, by the mid-1960s, become an existential necessity. ...
• Industry says 500 ginning factories, over 150 textile mills closed • Ginners allege imported inputs meant for re-export are being sold locally LAHORE: Cotton arrivals at ginning factories rose 7.53 per cent year-on-year to 4.08 million bales by Oct 15, but the domestic cotton and textile industrie...
