Editorial

Will  Imran Khan undertake soul searching?Prime Minister Imran Khan had little experience of running an administration when he assumed the office of the PM. Bubbling with confidence, he claim

The backlogs in other courts  The Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to immediately appoint judges at five vacant accountability courts while proposing to establish at least 12

Re-opening is fraught with risks even with SOPsThe National Command and Operation Centre endorsed on Thursday the decision of the previous day’s meeting of education ministers, to reopen sch

Opposition-baiting no substitute for good performance Last week Federal Minister Ali Haider Zaidi waved papers in the National Assembly, posing as if these were pages of a JIT (joint investig

A counter-intuitive strategyPML-Q leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, in a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan, has urged him to avoid a ‘confrontation with the media’ while stressing that th

Inadequate fuel supply and the heatWith temperatures rising day by day and people being encouraged to stay home due to the Covid-19 pandemic by the government, perhaps a better effort at ensur

Judge Malik’s sacking does not mean relief for Mian Nawaz SharifThe sacking of Judge Arshad Malik by the Lahore High Court’s administrative committee was perhaps an inevitability, for the

Why drag in the CII?By turning over the question of the construction of a Hindu temple in Islamabad to the Council of Islamic Ideology, the government is not only abdicating an important respo

Trump fights the other AmericansThe American elections are still months off. The election campaign has started albeit in low key. Democrat presumptive candidate Joe Biden and President Donald

Emanating from a hegemonic mindsetDespite the Indian Army’s humiliating debacle in Galwan valley, the BJP government continues to provoke neighbouring countries. As Pakistan announced electi

Inadequate safety measures at crossingsThat another railway accident has taken place, this time when a Lahore-bound train travelling from Karachi crashed into a coaster at an unmanned crossing