Editorial

Legal questions that merit a responseSince the filing of references against Supreme Court (SC) Judge Qazi Faez Isa and KK Agha of the Sindh High Court by the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), th

Remembering the lslamabad sit-inPrime Minister Imran Khan addressed a charged gathering of Americans of Pakistani origin at Washington’s Capitol One Arena. Most of those present were PTI act

Another near-miss should be a lesson There was another near-miss on the Railways on Saturday, when the Khyber Mail manged to avert ploughing into the Fareed Express only because an al

Improvements for the future The former Federally Administered Tribal Areas went through on Saturday with their first ever vote for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly. Much less noticed w

A lack of political consensus and the FATF Pakistan has received the first immediate tranche of the latest IMF Extended Fund Facility (EFF) of $1 billion out of a total of $6 billion,

Is the ice really breaking? Mutual needs bring Pakistan and the USA together while unrealistic expectations give birth to misunderstandings and suspicions between them. With a tempera

FBR Chairman in an aggressive moodWhile FBR Chairman Shabbar Zaidi does indeed have a herculean task before him, of raising Rs 5500 billion in revenue, not just because it is needed if the ann

Pushing the envelope The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf seems to be upping the rhetoric in its campaign against the freedom of the press, what with its official website firing off about two

Much more damaging for India than for Pakistan While the verdict by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is being portrayed by New Delhi as a major victory for India, the country

A game of chicken that could be disastrousThe confrontation between the government and the opposition is ratcheting up by the day both inside and outside Parliament. In the National Assembly t

Further squeeze on productionThe State Bank of Pakistan on Tuesday raised its policy discount rate by 100 basis points at the latest meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee, a whole percentag

But the PM neglects other crucial issuesThe third quarterly report of the SBP takes note of the persistence of vulnerabilities in the economy.  It recognizes the slowdown in economic growth i