Arif Nizami

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Should Asad Umar be shown the door? As the poet Mirza Ghalib famously said: Marz bharta hi gaya joon joon dawa ki (the more medicine you administered the malaise got from bad to worse). T

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In the wake of a Twitter war Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent suggestion that an interim setup should hold elections in Afghanistan stirred up a hornet’s nest. Afghan president Ashr

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Empty rhetoric rules the roostWhile the Islamic Republic is mired in a deep existential crisis, instead of trying to evolve a modicum of consensus on major issues confronting the nation, its polit

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And Islamabad’s own isolationWith an eyeball to eyeball confrontation between two nuclear powered adversaries resulting in actual military skirmishes, international diplomacy had to kick-in soon

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And its fallout It is a set pattern. Every time a terrorist incident takes place in the Indian Occupied Kashmir the ubiquitous Pakistani hand is seen behind it by New Delhi.The deadly

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And the release of SharifThe release of leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif on bail by a bench of the Lahore High Court raises a lot of questions about the functioning

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And the Aleem falloutHow logic is turned on its head to suit its narrative of the day has become the hallmark of the PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) government. Appointed as head of the PAC (public

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Old wine in a new bottleFinance minister Asad Umar is so cocksure that measures already taken have revived a moribund economy that he is not willing to brook any criticism of his policies. When a

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With no quick fix solutionsAccording to latest figures released by the government, trade deficit is falling sharply and inflation barely rose 0.4 per cent in the past five months since the PTI gov

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The curious case of the spokesperson Most news-watchers were shocked to see Dr. Farrukh Saleem the government’s presumptive spokesman on the economy explicating the doom and gloom scenario of our present economic<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/05/too-many-cooks/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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The jury is still out The father and son duo spewing fire and brimstone on the eleventh death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto does not change ground realities. Judging from the report of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/29/accountability-or-witch-hunt-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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History bound to repeat itselfOnly a few months back it would have been considered unfathomable that the two erstwhile rivals, the PPP (Pakistan Peoples Party) and the PML-N (Pakistan Muslim leagu