Children’s Hospital, RR, Kahuta Road and key water supply schemes remain incomplete RAWALPINDI: Several major development projects under construction in Rawalpindi have been carried forward into the new fiscal year 2026-27 after remaining incomplete at the close of FY2025-26. These include the Children’s Hospital, Rawalpindi Ring Road Phases I and II, Raja Bazaar and Commercial…
The industries’ ministry requested the ECC to authorise the Finance Division to approve the payment of a projected net salary of Rs351.73 million for FY 2025-26, which would be disbursed according to the PSM demand for each month. photo:file ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has questioned the payment of salaries to Pakistan Steel Mills’…
Other exception to our disengagement with India is its sponsoring of terrorism via Afghanistan India is in pain. The last one year has been rather unkind to a country that had convinced itself of its super powers. The reality check, when it came, was harsh. Which is why the members of the Hindutva brigade remain…
Says it will decide whether the pleas are maintainable only after receiving reports ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has sought a detailed report and jail record from the superintendent of Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail in a case concerning allegations that former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, are being kept in solitary…
. The writer is a freelancer and a mentor hailing from Kandhkot, Sindh. He can be reached at alihassanb.34@gmail.com Recently, a father in Multan, crushed by poverty, tried to bury his deceased son without a shroud. Others intervened and ensured a dignified burial. This isn’t the news. Isn’t it, you heartless? You all might question…
. Karachi is once again mobilising its army of 26,000 polio workers and thousands of police escorts – this time with an aim to vaccinate over 2.5 million children within six days. The resolve to launch this Herculean feat is impressive, and also quite familiar. For over three decades, in some form, Pakistan has run…
. Despite several unexpected external threats, the government beat its inflation target of 7.5% for the past fiscal year, recording 7.1% instead. Policymakers will undoubtedly be patting themselves on the back for bringing rampant inflation under control, and even managing the inflationary shock caused by the Iran War. But a fall in the rate of…
. Over 1,000 days have passed since Israel started its campaign of terror against innocent civilians in Gaza. While the initial attacks were supposedly in retaliation for the Hamas strikes of October 7, 2023 on Israel, three years on, few people will still draw the connection. At this point, Israeli soldiers are just massacring Palestinians…
HOUSTON: Morocco snuffed out co-host Canada’s World Cup dream to book their place in the quarter-finals on Saturday as France braced for furnace-like temperatures in their last-16 clash against Paraguay. Two goals from Azzedine Ounahi and an injury-time effort from Soufiane Rahimi sealed a 3-0 victory for Morocco in Houston that sends the African champions…
. During my years in Gothenburg, Sweden, there lived a gentleman not far from my home by the name of Arvid Carlsson. He was affiliated with a medical university, while I made my daily journey to Chalmers University in connection with my own work. Our routes almost coincided. I would board the tram at one…