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2,256 Disappearances Cases Pending

APP Islamabad: As many as 2,256 cases of enforced disappearance are pending with the Commission on Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance (CIED) as of January 31, 2023, according to a fresh report submitted by CIED to the Supreme Court on…

Opportunity or Poisoned Chalice 

Ishtiaq Ahmed  Bradford: 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…

Dignity on sale for a bag of flour

Asem Mustafa Awan
Islamabad: They are poor. They are hungry. They have very little money even to buy a bag of flour. They suffer indignity of standing in queue for hours to receive a bag of flour at a government rate.
They live

ECP must come up to the mark 

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: 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…

Political Tug of War In Punjab

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: Following the submission of a no-confidence motion by the Pakistan Democratic Alliance against Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the political pundits are gauging the pulse of the ongoing battle between…