Editorial

The tough battle ahead Prime Minister Imran Khan’s third visit to Azad Jammu and Kashmir in four weeks was aimed at sending a strong message to the world to help end the continuing

Karachi’s woes don’t need new problems Federal Law Minister Farogh Naseem’s loud thinking about the use of Article 149 (4) of the Constitution, for the federal government to tak

Proof of the pudding is in the eating The opposition and media have repeatedly raised the two issues of one-sided accountability and media curbs that have become particularly glaring

Mark the differencePrime Minister Imran Khan has praised the Father of the Nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohamad Ali Jinnah, as a role model several times before and after coming to power. More recentl

Banning smartphones won’t change thana cultureOf all the admissions of defeat, of all the most forlorn acknowledgements that police brutality cannot be controlled, nothing can go beyond IGP

A disproportionately high number in KP Two new cases of polio have been confirmed, one from Sindh and the other from KP taking the total to 62 this year. This is higher than the numbe

A mark of dishonour for government In Washington, PM Imran Khan dismissed concerns about media freedom in Pakistan saying it was freer than the media in Britain. The PM can deceive hi

And where it leaves Pakistan US President Donald Trump has cancelled his meeting at Camp David on Sunday with Taliban representatives about to make a deal that would have allowed the

No judge yet PML-N Punjab General Secretary and former provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah spent a useless day in court on Saturday. He went there as directed, in the custody of th

Signs do not show the economy getting out of trouble soon The International Monetary Fund finds it has to set a technical mission soon after giving Pakistan a $6 billion Extended Fina

Across the country This year’s monsoon season has not been kind. Apart from the havoc the rains caused in Karachi, the temperature and humidity have made the city a breeding ground

But avoid sentimentality The people of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) have fought state repression decade after decade but refused to surrender. Arrests, torture, forced disappearances