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Food ministry requests creation of special purpose vehicle to manage commodity’s stocks “However, the food department ignored these requests,” he said. According to Rehman, he sold the wheat stock to districts and sent the amount of Rs500 million collected back to food department. PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: The country’s economic managers have rejected the establishment of…

Athar Minallah, Supreme Court Judge. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ruled that a state that fails to safeguard the inheritance rights to its women fails in its duty to uphold the principles of equity, faith and justice. “It is incumbent upon the State under the Constitution and the clear injunctions of Islam, to…

FAISALABAD: Despite the passage of five months since the Punjab government announced a minimum wage of Rs40,000 for unskilled labour, a stalemate persists between labour unions and the Powerloom Owners Association, with district authorities yet to intervene effectively to resolve the dispute. Baba Latif Ansari, chairman of the Labour Qaumi Movement, told officials from the…

Discussions revolved around the shifting global order, US, China competition and Afghanistan role in Central Asia The writer is a non-resident research fellow in the research and analysis department of IPRI and an Assistant Professor at DHA Suffa University Karachi The Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) hosted a two-day Margalla Security Dialogue from November 11-12…

Pakistan is the only country that provides documentation-free open space for Afghans to earn dollars monthly The writer is a Doctor of Philosophy in Semiotics and Philosophy of Communication from Charles University Prague. She can be reached at shaziaanwer@yahoo.com The Afghan Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has directed Afghan traders…

. Multiple localities in Karachi are home to multi-storey buildings erected on a small patch of land, usually housing an upward of ten people per floor. While poverty and the ever-increasing inability of underprivileged families to invest in housing force people to flock to such abodes, sometimes six to twelve stories tall, their helplessness becomes…

. There is more to the Mr & Mrs Khan story than the Economist’s latest report describes. But does a layered narrative of the former First Couple’s days in power strengthen or soil their reputation? Titled “The mystic, the cricketer and the spy: Pakistan’s game of thrones” the Economist story dropped like a bombshell on…

. For the fifteenth year in a row, global internet freedom has continued its downward slide —a trend that should concern every society navigating an increasingly digital world. The latest findings from Freedom House show how countries across regions are grappling with balancing security and regulation. This global trajectory matters because it reveals how societies…

. The country is swinging into an agitational gear in the backdrop of the passage of the 27th amendment. The controversial legislation has drastically altered the fundamentals of the Constitution and literally demolished the existence of the Supreme Court. The six-party alliance of the opposition, TTAP, is thus mulling widespread protest campaigns as it aims…