Editorial

Public Accounts Committee asserts it’s right of oversight What transpired at the first meeting of the new PAC indicates an attempt by Parliament to make the institutions work strictly in accordance with their<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/29/the-nab-under-probe/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Economy and corruption PM Imran Khan believes there is no economic crisis in the country, as does his finance minister Asad Umar. He maintains that after a rough first few months his<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/29/an-alternate-reality/" title="Read more" >...</a>

White House’s stunning troop withdrawal decisionsOn the 2016 presidential campaign trail, candidate Donald Trump repeatedly showed his isolationist bent which was reflected in his promise to

Those in the dock have to be heard After the Sharifs, it is the turn of the Zardaris — the father, the son and the latter’s aunt. The PTI is on the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/28/the-jit-list-the-pti-and-ppp/" title="Read more" >...</a>

All eyes riveted on Bilawal now Benazir Bhutto’s charisma drew tens of thousands of enthused supporters to Lahore airport on April 10, 1986, when she returned after an eight year long exile.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/27/ppp-after-benazir-bhutto/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Especially with China Clearly advisor to prime minister on commerce, Razak Dawood, has little appetite for Free Trade Agreements (FTAs); particularly with China. He’s also not very pleased, seemingly, that the $1<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/27/razak-dawood-and-ftas/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Bright in parts, futile in totality A few months before the elections any suggestion that the PML-N could lose was liable to be pooh-poohed. Didn’t the party enjoy absolute majority in the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/26/the-anti-corruption-drive/" title="Read more" >...</a>

RIP, Ali Raza AbidiAli Raza Abidi’s murder marks the sixth terrorist incident in Karachi in as many weeks, raising questions about the effectiveness of law enforcement agencies as well as co

Difficulties in running parliament, federal system Everyone irrespective of his status needs to be held accountable. The best way is to let the related institutions probe the corrupt and the courts to<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/25/imran-khans-mindset/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Afghan tweet trespasses into foreign affairs domain The Trumpian tweet, with its combination of angry rhetoric, truth distortion and judgmental, patronising, final-word air, has caused unprecedented disruption within the US, with the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/25/maverick-media-minister/" title="Read more" >...</a>

In a practical wayFew things would help the country more in the present setting than the government realising its aim of raising export revenue to $40 billion by 2023. It is, after all

The need to adjustThe army chief could not have been more right when he said, “A superior narrative needs to be propagated to deal with attacks in the cognitive domain.” Addressing the pas