Editorial

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

From Zainab to Farishta The criminal negligence on the part of the police in registering the case of 10-year-old Farishta’s disappearance for four days is highly shocking. All the m

Has the ice been broken? Not all that much can be read into the meeting between Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and his Indian counterpart, Sushma Swaraj, at Bishkek o

A fresh crisis for the governmentThe balance of payments crisis is hardly over as the Finance Ministry’s quarterly report on fiscal operations showed that there was a deficit blowout caused

Don’t talk, concentrate on preparing casesThe PPP and PML-N leadership are pondering over taking NAB Chairman Mr Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal to court over remarks made allegedly by him avowed

Especially in case of powerful, impartial NAB chiefsThere is little doubt that the country’s premier anti-graft body, the National Accountability Bureau, has acquired a controversial reputat

One meeting depends on another That a meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan and US President Donald Trump depends on the progress of US talks with the Taliban, as stated recently

The discovery that never was The announcement that much was expected from oil explorations off the Karachi coast was made by Prime Minister Imran Khan himself. The one that the explor

Need to hammer out a realistic strategy The opposition is being driven to desperation both by NAB and the PTI government. What the Chairman NAB told a well-known anchor and columnist

By fulfilling tough preconditions As soon as there was confirmation that Pakistan had secured in principle a 13th IMF bailout package of $6 billion over 3 years, the rupee went into a

What are the IMF’s conditions? The rupee fell in the open market on Wednesday to new lows against the dollar, and was arrested only when an Exchange Companies Association of Pakista

Does the PTI remember what it said about amnesty schemes?PM’s Finance Adviser Hafeez Sheikh announced the latest tax amnesty scheme, the first of the present government, on Tuesday. When the