Editorial

A small but significant step for former premier The confusing, long-drawn Sharif family corruption saga has taken yet another twist, this time for the better for the erstwhile three-time prime minister. In<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/15/the-plot-thickens-5/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Pro-people, Mr Finance Minister?Finance Minister Asad Omer will try, no doubt, but even his best efforts will struggle to put a positive spin on the mini-budget due for the 23rd. Even if this

Some attention to parliament, pleaseOnce again the government is talking about somebody begging for another NRO. Information Minister Fawad Chaudhary this time enlightened the medi

And its consequencesIt is not surprising that the political temperature is at its peak within five months of PTI’s government considering that their entire election campaign revolved around slog

Stashing provincial shares without amending ConstitutionThe army has either taken out the terrorists or made them flee. But it is yet to complete the costly fencing of the Durand Line. What’s

Imran Khan beating democracy out of shapeUnlike medieval monarchs, a prime minster in a modern democracy is not supposed to take decisions on whims. To start with, the PM’s freedom to act i

And that sunset clauseEverybody agreed to military courts after the Peshawar school tragedy because of very serious, yet straight forward reasons. One, there was an urgent need for the perpetr

And learn to address  governance challenges?While under pressure from a barrage of bad reports about the government’s performance, it should be a  matter of satisfaction for the PTI leader

Late Asghar Khan’s petition lives againThe outstanding ex-air chief and, despite being a principled person or perhaps because of it, less successful in his later political career, died in Ja

US agrees to talks in Qatar  Imran Khan does not want Pakistan to be a hired gun. The PM is however willing  to become an ally of the US for achieving durable peace in Afghanistan.With the

Pakistan cricket emulating its hockey and squash decline Though it has fortunately not reached rock bottom despite the best efforts of vastly overpaid but clueless, infighting administrators and collapse-prone players, Pakistan cricket<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/08/winter-of-defeat-and-discontent/" title="Read more" >...</a>

It is  for the court, not the government, to determine criminality The charges that have been leveled against former President Asif Zardari and his financial partners are highly serious.  Zardari maintains that<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/08/fake-accounts-case/" title="Read more" >...</a>