Punjab’s Information and Culture Minister, Azma Zahid Bokhari, stepped into the fourth meeting of the Information Steering and Review Committee with a clear sense of purpose. It was not just another bureaucratic gathering in Lahore; it was a moment to recalibrate how the province defends truth in an age of digital chaos. As officials took their seats and folders were opened, the minister made her central argument unmistakable: disinformation, hate content, negative propaganda, and anti-state narratives cannot be defeated with last-minute firefighting. They require a coordinated, proactive, and fact-based strategy, one that moves with the speed of the very platforms…

The political atmosphere in Punjab has become charged once again, this time over something that touches every single home, farm, and factory in the state: electricity. On a Saturday that might have been just another day of political statements, a senior figure in the Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party, Sunil Jakhar, stepped forward to voice what many residents have been feeling for weeks. Jakhar, who once led the party in the state and remains a significant voice in its political landscape, did not hold back in his criticism of the Aam Aadmi Party government. From Chandigarh, he delivered a sharp and…