Editorial

Slim chances of forming meaningful anti-PTI platform JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman is a man on a mission nowadays, his obsession being an All Parties Conference. Since he lost his ‘safe’ constituency seat<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/29/wild-goose-chase/" title="Read more" >...</a>

FATF concerns Perhaps if the finance minister could have been unhappy with ‘various stakeholders’’ casual response to FATF queries earlier we would not be staring down the barrel at this point. It<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/28/asad-umars-unhappiness/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Games politicians play So former president Asif Zardari now smells a plot to roll back the 18th amendment; his ‘party’s gift to the nation’. That has happened, incidentally, just as talk of corruption<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/28/whos-politicising-what/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Let the PTI deliver or expose itself With Zardai, Nawaz Sharif and Fazlur Rehman in Lahore, reports of toeing and froing by the JUI-F leader to bring them together to forge a<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/27/a-premature-move-for-a-grand-alliance/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Merit based The government’s decision to replace political appointees with career diplomats in foreign missions is welcome, and sets the tone for similar cleansing in other departments. Past governments routinely stuffed government<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/27/foreign-appointments/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Intolerance threatens leading teaching institutions The venerable hundred years plus Punjab University may be the oldest seat of learning in Pakistan, but nowadays it’s Lahore campus hardly appears the safest or most<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/26/education-and-extremism-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Politicising a legal issue That numerous Pakistanis have bought properties in various countries, particularly in UAE and Britain, is widely known. Those involved include investors, well-to-do businessmen, retired generals like Musharraf and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/26/more-hype-little-substance/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Imran Khan’s leap of faith Those who launched an impetuous offensive in Yemen had under-estimated the resilience of the Houthis. Instead of returning victorious in weeks or months as they had hoped,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/25/in-the-role-of-a-mediator/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Unavoidable? It was only so long that the government could continue delay raising power rates. That the announced it one day after the ‘Saudi bailout’ sweetner just shows that they wanted to<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/25/raised-power-rates/" title="Read more" >...</a>

SC takes notice NAB’s (National Accountability Bureau) inconsistency has become so apparent that even the honourable Supreme Court has had to take notice, which says a lot. Charges that have traditionally been<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/24/nabs-double-standards/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Tightening the belt is the first step A portion of the funds required by Finance Minister Asad Umar to plug the country’ finances has now been procured. This however is only sufficient<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/24/reforming-a-rent-seeking-economy/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Are PTI and PML-N getting closer? It is becoming abundantly clear  that the PTI had done  little homework  before forming the government. The party therefore failed to hit the ground running that<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/23/the-signal-from-zardari/" title="Read more" >...</a>