Editorial

Government must clarifyApart from setting a record high tax collection target another focus in the first federal budget tabled by the PTI is austerity; a combination of reducing expenditures a

Her differences with Shehbaz come forth PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz has been very categorical in saying that party President Shehbaz Sharif’s proposal for a ‘charter of economy’ was his<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/06/23/maryam-speaks-out/" title="Read more" >...</a>

State Department says more needs to done That the US State Department’s need to pronounce on countries’ religious freedom may be considered as interference in their sovereignty, b

Brass knuckles under the kid gloves On Friday Prime Minister Imran Khan appealed to the nation to declare assets before the amnesty scheme’s June 30 deadline. Simultaneously the FBR

With only months left to comply After missing two deadlines to comply with FATF conditions, Pakistan has now been given a final extension till October of this year to address its terr

Where is the accountability The collision at Hyderabad of a passenger train and a goods train was bad enough in itself. It was also a rude shock for the Pakistan Railways community, b

No option but to fight the cases The fortunes of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have been on the decline for the last three years. In 2017 he was sent packing by the Supreme Court

PM, Foreign Minister reply politely Re-elected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his new Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar have both replied with honeyed words and anodyn

An economic body with a difference?At first sight, the new National Development Council seems to be a mere repetition of a number of already existing bodies, especially in view of its mandate,

But how long will it last?After keeping the National Assembly dysfunctional for several days of the budget session, an exercise in course correction seems to have been conducted. A directive f

Pakistani society in a pressure cookerThe unending vitriol and fury on the part of the PM has infected the entire PTI leadership. Earlier, everyone who thought differently from the party was l

Sawing off the branch one is sitting onThe noisy PTI MNAs continuously disturbed and heckled the Leader of the Opposition when he started to speak on the budget on Monday. This led the Speake