Editorial

And a paralysed HouseIt seems that the grapevine was wrong, for once, when it suggested that the government might take the foot of the gas a bit, so to speak, regarding its single minded pursu

Still fiscally insecureWasn’t it the State Bank governor who said just the other day that the country had come out of the economic crisis it had been facing since before the PTI government t

A positive dimension in relationsThe  Pak-Saudi summit has  given a new dimension to relations between the two countries. For the Saudi royalty  military ties with Pakistan had so

Nothing changesWasn’t it Imran Khan that always got so upset at PML-N and PPP’s tradition of ‘politicising the police’? The reasoning was simple and quite convincing. When the governme

The MBS effect There are no easy choices, really, for Pakistan at the moment. Such is the cash strapped position of the government that even the measures it is patting itself on the back abou

Pak-sponsored February 18 meeting fails to materialiseWhen the federal information minister announced, and the Afghan Taliban spokesman concurred, on the hosting and attending of talks between

Old wine in a new bottlePoverty alleviation is a standard promise made by each consecutive government in this country whether civilian or otherwise and most if not all have fallen well short of ac

JeM puts Pakistan on the defensiveThe world powers failed to dissuade India from practicing state terrorism against Kashmiri freedom fighters. It is understandable on the part of a short-sight

Bracketing critics with terrorists would harm the countryAfter trying to muzzle the print and electronic media through  PMRA, the information ministry is after  social media  which had play

And Pakistan’s crucial roleIt’s still not clear whether it was just a gambit on Pakistan’s part, to invite Afghan Taliban and the Americans for talks in Islamabad, or some planning and c

Infantile politics is rendering parliament dysfunctionalA number of parliamentarians belonging to the PTI and its allies continue to act like a bull in the China shop, taking recourse to un-pa

PTI’s hush-hush dealWhat the opposition had been claiming  about the PTI  having already reached a secret deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has turned out to be true. Finance