Editorial

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>

Imran Khan has to stay the course now It was courageous on the part of Imran Khan to order an unprecedented countywide crackdown on electricity theft. One would agree with the prime<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/23/a-commendable-decision/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Punjab Assembly sessions within, protests outside The major political parties are at their reckless, unprofitable game again, threatening and bad-mouthing each other, warning of street agitation, hinting at no-confidence motions, with government<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/23/a-house-divided-3/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Complete strategic failureTime has come for Washington, finally, to accept reality in Afghanistan. The gift of democracy, so people could decide their own fate even in such a war ravaged count

Words and actionsSurely now that PTI has been in power for a while and its accountability drive has taken off – based on a mountain of evidence no doubt as the prime minister himself claims

Terrorists have to be deprived of financial support No Pakistani administration likes the country to be put on the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). But each one has<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/21/need-to-respond-to-international-concerns/" title="Read more" >...</a>

And not punching above one’s weight If the government thought the Qataris would not be rattled by its sudden decision to revisit LNG arrangements then it had just not done its homework.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/21/respecting-foreign-contracts/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Despite bloodshed, Afghan election still stirs popular enthusiasm The ‘national unity government’ in Kabul, though really neither national, united or a government beyond the capital confines, still deserves to be lauded for<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/19/voting-under-terror/" title="Read more" >...</a>

PTI needs to avoid self-inflicted wounds Irrespective of its views about the successive governments, this paper has consistently supported their right to complete a five-year tenure. That each one of the last<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/19/to-complete-its-tenure/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Vacillation will breed uncertainty and harm the economy Imran Khan has said Pakistan may not need IMF, making thus an about turn on the issue. The matter had been debated in the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/18/need-for-a-firm-and-urgent-decision-on-imf/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Irrational expectations? Good that Shahbaz Sharif put to rest any lingering doubts about some distance between the Sharif brothers. Disqualified or not – especially since the Panama case has raised fresh controversy<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/18/pml-ns-choices/" title="Read more" >...</a>

The policy can do a lot of harmOne thing common between the PTI and NAB is that neither cares to verify the facts before accusing a politician they do not like. As Shahbaz Sharif claimed in hi