Editorial

Yet another display of arrogance After three months in power a self-righteous and aggressive posture continues to characterise the PTI leadership. Whenever anybody in the opposition points out a lapse in the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/16/disrespect-for-senate/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Watch the reserves! While the equity market celebrates the MSCI breather – very likely very temporary – it’s as if nobody in government noticed the warning issued by Moody’s ‘Global Emerging Markets:<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/16/moodys-warning/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Who’s responsible? That October saw FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) fall 55pc year-on-year ought to rattle some nerves in Islamabad. This, no matter what PTI stalwarts say, is not because of anything the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/15/fdi-fall/" title="Read more" >...</a>

From rule of law, back to the law of the jungle In civilised societies disputes are settled and perceived injustices to individuals or communities undone not by resort to force but through<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/15/lawyers-on-the-rampage/" title="Read more" >...</a>

More professionalism, please! It’s one thing for leading newspaper editorials to question NAB’s (National Accountability Bureau) neutrality in the so-called anti-corruption drive that is all the rage at the moment. It’s quite<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/15/nab-on-trial/" title="Read more" >...</a>

No justification for tolerating extremist outpourings The PTI government has been widely criticised for the biggest failure in its first hundred days of rule i.e. the criminal negligence in controlling the three<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/15/after-the-corps-commanders-assurance/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Immediate financial crisis averted, but future still uncertain The PTI government’s eagerly awaited 100 days honeymoon period since assuming office is ending shortly, and the pundits are probably sharpening their critical faculties<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/13/wriggling-out-of-economic-quagmire/" title="Read more" >...</a>

From jail to protective custody The Supreme Court acquitted Aasia Bibi ordering her immediate release if there were no other charges against her, and there were none. But she still remains in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/13/in-limbo/" title="Read more" >...</a>

PTI now calls upon ulema and civil society to take on TLP It is difficult to take the statement of any of the PTI’s leaders at its face value. There is a<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/12/scared-of-standing-by-the-supreme-court/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Twin incidents against journalists cause protests Amid the continuing narrative of increased constraints being imposed upon local media by ‘guardians’, both governmental and ghostly, a couple of disturbing incidents last week in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/12/karachi-press-woes/" title="Read more" >...</a>

A serious issue that cannot be buried After the landmark judgment acquitting Aasia Bibi of all charges TLP’s leaders Khadim Rizvi and Pir Afzal Qadri made some unprecedented statements inciting violence by<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/11/tlps-growing-prominence/" title="Read more" >...</a>

What Afghans want The Russians mediating to put an end to a long American misadventure in Afghanistan would have elicited a chuckle from the most serious quarters had it not been for<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/11/moscows-great-game/" title="Read more" >...</a>