Editorial

Already, more cases this year than in 2017The Independent Monitoring Board’s latest report makes frightening reading, because it says that Pakistan’s Polio Programme had fooled itself into

The Opposition finds itself pressed to the wallThe National Assembly saw opposition members engage in strenuous protests on Friday before the Speaker was obliged to adjourn a House which he co

The videotaped messageOn Thursday Prime Minister Imran Khan urged Pakistanis to avail the recently-introduced tax amnesty scheme and declare their assets. Socio-economic problems like tax dodg

No witch hunt, please There are no holy cows in the eyes of the law, be they politicians, judges or any other category of high and mighty. The President was within his rights to send

Pakistan and Afghanistan must resolve their issues first Afghan National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib was in Rawalpindi along with a team that included Interior Minister Amrullah

Chinese Vice President’s productive visit ‘They flee from me that sometime did me seek’ aptly describes the not-so-splendid isolation that invariably and unfortunately confronts

A sequel to 'their time is up'? When military action was ordered in East Pakistan, the people were told that a handful of mischief mongers were trying to mislead the pro-Pakistan mass

Satisfying another IMF demand? Perhaps the most glaring aspect of PM’s Finance Adviser Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh’s press conference on Saturday was his putting a figure on the govern

Pakistan has to remain neutral Pakistan could not avoid being drawn into the US conflict with Iran for precisely the reasons it would like to stay out. It has close ties to Iran, both

With false hope There is no disagreement over the fact that the country’s economy is in very bad shape. This isn’t conjecture; figures published by the PTI government itself, whic

The hunter turns into quarry The possibility of the video that compromises NAB Chairman Mr Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal being fake cannot be ruled out. During his nearly three-year-long

Finance Secretary latest to be shown the door Finance Secretary Younus Dagha’s removal, and replacement by Naveed Kamran Baloch, would have not caused such a stir, had it not occurr