Editorial

Playing dangerous games The new Indian Chief of Army Staff, Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane, put his foot in his mouth right at the beginning of his tenure, saying that if the Indian Parlia

Pakistan’s limited role in the Middle East situation Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, on the directions of Prime Minister Imran Khan, went to Iran and Saudi Arabia to offer Pa

Not nearly enough, but a start The National Assembly’s passage of the Zainab Alert Bill after its introduction last year, and two years after a little girl, the late Zainab,

Allies demand fulfillment of promises PM Iman Khan made unrealistic promises to allies in return for support for him to form the government. On Sunday MQM-P convener Dr Khalid Maqbool

To distract from the uncomfortable reality Prime Minister Imran Khan had made several bold promises before coming to power. Among them was to ‘end corruption’ by jailing his polit

Terrorism in Balochistan Over the last decade the incidence of terrorist attacks has significantly come down in the country. The credit goes to the security forces that launched a maj

Must avoid pitfalls of the pastPrime Minister Imran Khan’s launch of the Hunarmand Jawan programme is aimed at a very sensitive audience: young people. The programme will put Rs 30 billion o

Moving towards a new normalThe opposition has lost steam and has decided to put the issue of civilian supremacy on the back burner for the present. The U-turn by the two major opposition part

The downward growth estimate revision reflects hard times aheadIn its ‘2020 Global Economic Prospects’ of the World Bank, it postulates 2.4 percent GDP growth for FY2020 for Pakistan. This

Does Pakistan have a mediatory role in region?  Sharply rising tensions in the Middle East de-escalated, at least for the time being, after President Trump blinked first during the ongoing

Miscalculation can lead to disasterThe inevitable has happened. Soon after the burial of Gen Qassem Soleimani, over 80 US forces died in missile attacks on two US military bases in Iraq, Irani

Will it also tamp down polarisation in the country? The Army Act Amendment Bill was passed in the National Assembly through majority vote after the JUI-F, the JI and two erstwhile Fat