Letters

Society needs a closure

Society needs a closure

WE are just a couple of months shy of what will be the third anniversary of the death of Noor Mukadam, the young...
Published 19 May, 2024 07:37am
Wakhan might turn things upside down

Wakhan might turn things upside down

RECENTLY, an important development has seemingly gone unnoticed in Pakistan. With the construction of a 50km stretch...
Published 19 May, 2024 07:37am

Quite a contrast

BACK in 2008, I was living in the United Kingdom as an overseas student. I had applied to the British Home Office ...
Published 19 May, 2024 07:37am

Border smuggling

THE border separating Pakistan and Iran has for long been a source of income for the people of Makran division, ...
Published 19 May, 2024 07:37am

POLICE RECRUITMENT

POLICE RECRUITMENT: Hundreds of police constables are being recruited in Sindh police. My only concern is that their...
Published 19 May, 2024 07:37am

Tax and credibility

SINCE the ongoing economic crisis hit the country in the closing months of 2021, successive administrations have...
Published 18 May, 2024 06:54am

An absolute tragedy

RECENTLY, I attended a memorial event held for Sehat Khan, a student of Punjab University, who lost his life after...
Published 18 May, 2024 06:54am

PIA pensioners

THE government has finally decided to privatise the national air carrier. Under the proposed arrangement, Pakistan...
Published 18 May, 2024 06:54am

Digital childhood

GENERATION Alpha, roughly speaking, encompasses individuals born from 2010 onwards. Since the iPad also made its ...
Published 18 May, 2024 06:54am

FATE IN A SHAMBLES

FATE IN A SHAMBLES: In 2021, the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) had announced 1,565 vacancies of headmaster...
Published 18 May, 2024 06:54am

Wheat crisis is far from being over

WHEAT crisis, which is practically not over yet, may give birth to another big crisis. The government must be ...
Published 18 May, 2024 06:54am

Childcare centres

THIS is with reference to the article ‘Childcare challenge’ (April 15) which highlighted the pressing need for...
Published 17 May, 2024 05:46am

POST-FLOOD RECONSTRUCTION

POST-FLOOD RECONSTRUCTION: Many areas in Balochistan, as was the case in Sindh, were severely hit by the flash ...
Published 17 May, 2024 05:46am

Hegelian dialectics

GEORG Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, one of the great political scientists, came up with the idea of dialectics through...
Published 17 May, 2024 05:46am

Menace of nepotism

THIS is with reference to the report ‘Sindh varsity confirms ex-PSB director general has fake degree’ (May 1)....
Published 17 May, 2024 05:46am

The porous border

INDIAN intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has adopted Mossad-like tactics, and is involved in...
Published 17 May, 2024 05:46am

Misplaced notions

A DIECTIVE was issued recently by the administration of the Government Post- graduate College, Timergara, regarding...
Published 16 May, 2024 07:26am

‘Friendship’ pitfalls

WHILE waiting for my wife in the car with my teenage son, I saw a young woman, aged around 20 years, clad in an...
Published 16 May, 2024 07:25am