Editorial

Any fine print in the document?An agreement was reached on a bailout package on Sunday between the technical teams of the government and IMF. PM’s Finance Adviser Dr Hafeez Shaikh revealed t

A day of happy surprisesOn Monday the National Assembly unanimously passed the 26th Amendment Bill in an atmosphere marked by bonhomie. The Prime Minister addressed a peaceful House and laude

Over-zealous official institutions rock the fiscal boatA combination of the country’s emaciated economy, which now exhibits the craziest macroeconomic statistics, its lethal prolonged financ

Pakistani woman cricketer becomes world’s top ranked ODI spinner The third One Day International at Benoni on Sunday in the ongoing series of the ICC Women’s Championship with Sou

Will it go beyond the first tranche? The PTI government has managed to get an IMF bailout on terms and conditions not acceptable to some of the members of the Economic Advisory Counci

About time, once and for allEach year the country is subjected to the frustrating exercise of “moon sightings” by religious clerics wielding unmerited power to decide when the nation obser

After Venezuela, IranLast Sunday the USA dispatched an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East to put pressure on Iran. On Friday, US B-52 bombers landed in Qa

The busting of a brokering raises more questions than answered The FIA says it has busted an international gang which sent girls from Pakistan to China where they had been promised ma

Essential for a healthy democracy On Press Freedom Day held a few days ago tribute was paid to 95 journalists killed globally in the line of duty last year with around 700 killed over

PTI’s Byzantine politics Former Finance Minister Asad Umar had returned to Pakistan from New York in a triumphant mood, claiming that he had clinched a deal with the IMF which had b

Now the turn of domestic history Prime Minister Imran Khan chose to speak of his struggle in reaching office after forming his party in 1996, while speaking at the Foundation Day of h

Time to cut off ties with “good Taliban” The biological control of pests by letting loose their predators is a fine way to avoid the use of harmful chemicals on crops. Under Gen Z