Editorial

The hits just keep on comingAfter watching Pakistan lose to West Indies in spectacular fashion only to beat England in the following match by giving them a near impossible target to chase it b

A straw in the wind The lawyers sit-in outside the Supreme Court on Friday brought together leaders of the legal profession from all the four provinces regardless of their political o

PTI’s actions are somehow automatically kosher A little over two months are left for Prime Minister Imran Khan to complete a full one year in office. From an economic point of view

Opposition being forced to combine PPP Co-Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s visit to PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz was not the first time they had met (they had iftari together

How did the government make its budget? The federal Finance Ministry will either get the non-development side of the budget wrong, or the Public Sector Development programme is going

Who is minding the store? For Prime Minister Imran Khan the only issue is that of sending all opposition leaders to jail. After handing over the management of the economy to the IMF,

No unifying figure availableThe Opposition cannot keep putting off a decision about when exactly it is to make good on its murmurings about a movement against the government, not now that two

More bitterness, little benefitThe budget session was a painful ordeal for Prime Minister Imran Khan. He had to be in the House, for there was no other way to ensure PML-N legislators’ full

Pakistan handed over to IMF to hide incompetenceThe PTI has handed over all powers to the IMF to take fiscal decisions for the next 40 months. The present Budget underlines what happens to the

As PTI loses popularity, it fears electionsSuddenly the KP government has felt it necessary to write to the ECP to delay July 2 elections in merged tribal districts now forming part of the p

After Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali ZardariZardari’s arrest has once again underlined the reality that there is collusion between the government and the NAB to keep the process of accountability c

Will the budget let the opposition launch a movement? National Assembly Leader of the Opposition Mian Shehbaz Sharif’s return home from London, where he had gone on bail from NAB cu