Editorial

PTI-PML-N chasm over key parliamentary committee  Though the friction and hype, vulgar at times, generated by the 2018 elections and judicial tensions, has eased somewhat into an uneasy calm, the feelings of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/02/the-great-pac-divide/" title="Read more" >...</a>

SBP tightens screws Sure, the state bank was expected to increase the discount rate, and some investment houses even factored in the complete one percent rise, yet the decision has still unleashed<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/01/controlling-money-supply/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Talk of war! Quite suddenly the torrent of accusations and threats from India has raised the very real prospect of some sort of limited adventurism, most likely over the Line of Control,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/01/pak-india-threats/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Pakpattan, Chakwal and now Lahore Imran Khan’s promise to put an end to political interference in matters of the bureaucracy is already an uphill task and if recent incidents of this perpetual<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/30/political-interference-in-official-matters/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign Defending Pakistan’s position Foreign Minister Shah Mahmud Qureshi has clarified Pakistan’s policy regarding Afghanistan and India, while emphasizing the importance of improving Pak-US relations. On the sidelines of the ongoing UNGA session he<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/30/minister-in-new-york/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Politicians and courts With Supreme Court holding Jahangir Tareen ineligible from holding a public office, the PTI has suffered a major loss. Tareen, elected thrice a member of the National Assembly from<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/28/after-nawaz-jahangir-tareen/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Model Town tragedy highlighted It is a classic instance of an orchestrated cover-up, of protecting the powerful against the weak, of justice not only inordinately delayed but denied. The bloodbath of June<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/28/on-again-off-again-event/" title="Read more" >...</a>

About that bailout? Finally, the government got to sit down with IMF officials and begin the long process of determining whether or not there will be a 13th program with the Fund.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/27/here-comes-the-fund/" title="Read more" >...</a>

When in Parliament, do as the parliamentarians do It is time for the PTI to realise that Parliament is a highly prestigious institution in a democratic system while the National Assembly is<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/27/the-ptis-infantile-politics/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Cyril Almeida in court A  newspaper reporter is eternally in search of facts  particularly from those who are known to be in possession of these. Nawaz Sharif had something  important to say.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/26/journalism-in-interesting-times/" title="Read more" >...</a>

PM keen on resolving key issues, but power-centralisation a threat Conscious of his election promise of bringing about a visible change in the country’s direction in his first hundred days, the fast-lane<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/26/man-in-a-hurry/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Ups and downs all the way   A lot of effort has gone into laying the ground work for peace in South Asia. Those who initiated the moves  in the direction comprised<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/25/the-roller-coaster-relationship/" title="Read more" >...</a>