Editorial

The economic costs have already started kicking in Perhaps the most dangerous result of the USA’s killing of Iranian military commander Gen Qassem Soleimani has been the tanking of

Draw lessons from Iraq Every other day the hubris-ridden US President Donald Trump issues an aggressive tweet threatening Iran of terrible consequences if it dares to carry out any ac

There is more bad news for power consumers across the board: there is a proposal afoot to add a surcharge to the power tariff to help pay off the circular debt, which had reached Rs1.72 trillion at ye

The government must show its goodwill The failure to pass the Army (Amendment) Bill on Saturday, as scheduled, and its postponement to Monday, shows that the passage of the Supreme Co

The Opposition wants more timeThe Opposition intends to allow the government the legislation, mandated by the Supreme Court, which it needs to allow the COAS an extension in service, but it ap

Collective Cabinet responsibility set at naughtIt would seem that federal Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri has not heard of collective Cabinet responsibility, or the Foreign Office has not.

Pakistan has to remain neutral in Gulf stand off In order to divert attention from his ongoing impeachment, US President Donald Trump is pushing for another calamitous Middle East war

Reconciling the trickledown theory with a welfare state Prime Minister Imran Khan has apparently got conflicting visions which produce the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes for

After efforts at consensus building There are indications that the Army Act Amendment Bill will sail through the Senate and National Assembly by consensus. The haste shown by PML-N le

The killing of General Soleimani could move the region towards war The killing by a US drone strike of Maj Gen Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Guard Corps’ Quds Force,

Pursuit of skin-deep bonhomie With the government announcing a hefty rise in the petroleum and LPG prices and reports about flour also becoming costlier, the opposition had reasons to

The challenges to continue in 2020s Despite major gains in the fight to make Pakistan a parliamentary republic, the goal of civilian supremacy as envisioned by Founding Father Mohamma