KARACHI: Pakistan needs to fully exploit indigenous renewable energy resources to improve energy security and overcome the crippling power crisis in the country, a recently released report by the ...

Discussions on the precarious situation in Pakistan today tend to be focused mostly on the threat from fundamentalist or “jihadi” militants. The focus on that threat is absolutely critical, however, ...

Rural poverty remains a major challenge for in part of the world, where a bulk of the population is still caught in the trap of severe deprivation. As rural areas across both Pakistan and India have ...

THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition, has ...

In a landscape where decent clinics are scarce, the Umrana Mumtaz Healthcare Trust Hospital is a beacon of hope. And a bustling one: On a sweltering afternoon, worried mothers wrapped in traditional ...

Hunar ke Rang or 'colour of skills' is a marquee event organized every year by the Indus Heritage Trust (IHT) to celebrate Pakistan's glorious craft traditions and their unsung rural practitioners.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s rural support programmes were among the oldest in the region and were widely acknowledged for their success. This was stated by National Rural Support Programme ChairmanShoaib ...

With the Pakistani coalition government in talks with cleric Tahirul Qadri, after he led busloads of 50,000 protestors into Islamabad demanding political reform, the country's future is as uncertain ...

During Pakistan's last election in 2018, women from five remote areas of the country were more likely to vote than anywhere else in the country, including big cities. Pakistan is heading for an ...