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Daily Times is an English-language Pakistani newspaper. Daily Times, is simultaneously published from Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi.

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Javed Khan

Javed Khan is Pakistan-based journalist who has been working as a Staff Reporter for the daily Lead Pakistan since 2020. Mr Khan work has been focused on climate change, environment, …

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Fareeha Hashmi

I am a creative and hard-working writer who looks at life through all forms of arts, music and literature. Writing thoughtfully and taking meaningful photographs is what keeps me going …

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Saadain Gardezi

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Humaira Saeed

Opinion and features writer

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Shahzada Rahim

Political strategist & consultant, Geopolitical Analyst and Author Shahzada Rahim is an experienced Editor-in-Chief with a demonstrated history of working in the political sector & media industry. He is a …

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Jalaluddin Mughal

I am a storyteller, a blogger, a photographer, and an amateur filmmaker holding advanced degrees in Mass Communications and Political Sciences from Pakistan and a certificate in digital media from …

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Latest Articles

A Global Edtech Giant, My Tutor Source (MTS) opens new doors for Pakistani Professionals

It is the first week of March 2020, Islamabad is enjoying the first blooms of spring. Lahore, with its ever going literature festivals, is brimming with students, teachers and literary circles. Karachi is enjoying the first course of sea breezes from the south. The mornings are fine and the evenings …
By Fareeha Hashmi
• Daily Times

Resettlement made impossible for refugee journalists

With a broken heart, I am writing these lines. Thinking about a person who has been declared as a bonafide refugee by the UN High Commission on Refugees in Malaysia, but this Muslim journalist of Pakistani origin is still struggling to resettle. Losing nine precious years of his youth, this …
By Syed Fawad Ali Shah
• Daily Times

The Threat of Artificial Intelligence Weapons

All major powers are currently focusing on the development of autonomous weapon systems. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technological breakthrough that would render the world unrecognisable as we know it today. Though the idea that machines would possess human-like cognitive capabilities might have sounded like science fiction in the past …
By Saadain Gardezi
• Daily Times

A billion trees but no pollution inventory

PESHAWAR: A shortage of provincial funds is threatening important anti-pollution projects including the launching of a Geographic Information System (GIS) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said on Thursday. A member of the Forestry, Environment and Wildlife ministry confirmed that the environment department is facing cash-flow problems, thereby crucial initiatives of the …
By Javed Khan
• Daily Times

A billion trees but no pollution inventory

PESHAWAR: A shortage of provincial funds is threatening important anti-pollution projects including the launching of a Geographic Information System (GIS) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said on Thursday. A member of the Forestry, Environment and Wildlife ministry confirmed that the environment department is facing cash-flow problems, thereby crucial initiatives of the …
By Javed Khan
• Daily Times

A billion trees but no pollution inventory

PESHAWAR: A shortage of provincial funds is threatening important anti-pollution projects including the launching of a Geographic Information System (GIS) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said on Thursday. A member of the Forestry, Environment and Wildlife ministry confirmed that the environment department is facing cash-flow problems, thereby crucial initiatives of the …
By Javed Khan
• Daily Times

'Flawed' studies relied upon by the SC to give green signal to Orange Line - Daily Times

Kamil Khan Mumtaz, renowned architect and the petitioner in the Orange Line Metro Train case, has expressed disappointment with the Supreme Court judgement issued on Friday. Speaking to Daily Times, Mumtaz said from day one the government had shown disregard for the crucial issue of vibrations during construction activity which …
By Humaira Saeed
• Daily Times

AugmentCare raises $1m to revolutionise healthcare in Pakistan

LAHORE: AugmentCare, a complete healthcare app that connects patients with doctors, pharmacies and laboratories, has raised $1 million in seed capital – a remarkable feat that has not been achieved by many Pakistani start-ups. The Lahore-based company has successfully enticed local and international investors in East Asia and is planning …
By Anam Jalil
• Daily Times

Punjab in a hurry to formulate smog policy, but lacks air quality monitoring equipment - Daily Times

Lahore: The provincial government of the Punjab has prepared a policy to deal with the recurring problem of smog at this time of the year. The draft for the Policy on Controlling Smog 2017 has been prepared in consultation with the Environmental Protection Council (EPC) headed by Chief Minister Shehbaz …
By Humaira Saeed
• Daily Times

Heritage Now draws attention to need for sustainable development - Daily Times

“The Heritage Now festival was a success in many ways, but it could have been more audience-centric,” said Festival Curator Rahimeen Ahmad. She spoke to Daily Times on the concluding day of the festival.Though the festival attracted a sizeable crowd, Ahmed felt that with a little more planning the discussion …
By Humaira Saeed
• Daily Times

‘Climate change poses a major challenge to food security in KP’

PESHAWAR: The Climate Change Cell (CCC) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) warned that rising variability in monsoon rains, rapid recession of glaciers and constant depletion of freshwater resources have posed a major challenge to food security in the province. Talking to Daily Times at his office, Climate Change Cell Deputy Director Afsar …
By Javed Khan
• Daily Times

‘Alif Ailaan’ sets invisible indicators in district-wise ranking reports

PESHAWAR: Avoided actual status of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa education system, Alif Ailaan a non-profit organization evaluating education performance of the province and set invisible indicators in district wise annual ranking reports. However, the concerned authorities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Education Department also have reservations and said that all these reports are …
By Javed Khan
• Daily Times

‘Wooden cabin’ surfaced at centuries-old Sharda temple

MUZAFFARABAD – Civil society on Sunday raised concerns over a new construction inside the compound of Sharda temple, a centuries-old religious place and now an archeological site, near the Line of Control in Neelum Valley district of Azad Jammu Kashmir. “We people consider this ‘wooden cabin’ inside historical compound as …
By Jalaluddin Mughal
• Daily Times