Auto policy draws flak over import reliance
Industry experts warn CKD imports fuel trade deficit as localisation fails to keep pace The…
Auto policy draws flak over import reliance
Industry experts warn CKD imports fuel trade deficit as localisation fails to keep pace The three Japanese carmakers lacked innovation and competitiveness, despite the incentives offered to them in the previous policies, said government officials as they announced the auto policy. PHOTO: FILE KARACHI: In the last two auto policies, the government aimed to increase…
Bayern comeback stuns Freiburg
Bayern Munich’s Tom Bischof scores their second goal. Photo: REUTERS/FILE BERLIN: Bayern Munich came from two goals down in the last 10 minutes to win 3-2 at Freiburg in the Bundesliga on Saturday, ahead of their Champions League quarter-final first leg at Real Madrid.Trailing 2-0 and without injured talisman Harry Kane, Tom Bischof scored twice…
The weaponised fool
PUBLISHED June 22, 2025 KARACHI: Not long ago, I stumbled upon an old clip of George W Bush hosting Vladimir Putin at his Texas ranch. Bush, in his usual casual swagger, spoke in awkward metaphors, grinned too often, and seemed unable to put together a sentence without either fumbling or reaching for something vaguely Texan….
I went to Valika hospital to find out if children got HIV there
The information surfaced on a reporter WhatsApp group: Eight small children had been infected with HIV, supposedly at Kulsum Bai Valika hospital in Karachi and two were dead. Every reporter was busy calling their Sindh government contacts to get confirmation and details. Since I am new to Health reporting, I decided to go to the…
Zahid Mayo: Breaking the canvas
Mayo believes that art can have an impact on people and can help initiate dialogue. Mayo continues to paint on nonconforming surfaces and in atypical surroundings. PHOTO: KARACHI BIENNALE 2017 CATALOGUE When Zahid Mayo was studying at one of the most notable art colleges in the country, the National College of Arts (NCA) Lahore, he…
How America lost control of the air
PUBLISHED April 05, 2026 This is not the first time the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s stealth-tipped technological edge in military capability has been punctured. In 1999 — less than a decade after its existence, having long circulated as a subject of speculation, had been publicly confirmed over the skies of Iraq — an F-117…
Afghan Taliban terrorist involved in FC personnel killings arrested in Balochistan
Balochistan Home Minister Zia Langove. PHOTO: INP/FILE QUETTA: Balochistan Interior Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove revealed on Sunday that security forces arrested an Afghan Taliban terrorist allegedly involved in the killing of two Federal Constabulary (FC) personnel. Speaking at a press conference alongside Additional Chief Secretary Hamza Shafqaat and Counter-Terrorism Department Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Aitzaz Goraya,…
Govt mulls more gas rationing
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is considering introducing a further reduction in gas supplies to domestic consumers through rationing amid the deepening Middle East war, which has disrupted oil and gas transportation through the region. However, the ministers in a committee constituted to review energy matters opposed any gas rationing plan with the argument that it would result…
Barcelona beat 10-man Atletico
Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski celebrates scoring their second goal. Photo: REUTERS/FILE BARCELONA: Robert Lewandowski shouldered home a dramatic late winner for Barcelona as they edged Atletico Madrid 2-1 to move seven points clear at the top of La Liga after Real Madrid slipped up.Second-placed Real were beaten 2-1 at Mallorca earlier on Saturday, and Barca capitalised…
Trump’s war on the undocumented
PUBLISHED June 22, 2025 KARACHI: It begins in the dead of night – ICE agents raiding factories, restaurants and farms, while families sleep unaware as the state flexes its full disciplinary muscle, reviving the ghosts of America’s exclusionary past with a vengeance that is unmistakably contemporary. What Donald Trump hails as “the largest deportation operation…
