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Asad Omar’s awaited balancing act Finance Minister Asad Omar didn’t really need to remind everybody about how much the fiscal deficit has ballooned or how little import cover is left. PTI has<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/18/budget-revisions-in-difficult-times/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Benefits everybody?Leave it to the foreign press, as usual, to enlighten Pakistanis about potentially groundbreaking developments. Apparently the American ambassador to Afghanistan has told an
Sensitive matterOne must, regrettably, tread very carefully on the matter of making dams and saving our future lest one is misinterpreted and, quite wrongly, branded an enemy of the state itse
Similar problems bring both countries closer Turkey’s foreign minister was in town for an unconventionally long five-day visit meeting with the top officials in the PTI government, the military and even called<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/15/pak-turk-relations/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Damned if it does, damned if I doesn’t Politicians coming to power have frequently used bureaucrats to bend and break the laws to fulfill their wishes. This has led to grave social consequences. Honest government officers<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/15/bureaucracy-in-a-nutcracker/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Pakistan’s laws on women scream for reform That plain speaking and persistent champion of social causes regarded as provocative by ‘polite society’ and usually conveniently swept under the carpet, Farhatullah Babar, has<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/14/eve-daughters-tragic-fate/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Populism and the economic realitiesWhen seeking votes as an opposition leader it was easy for Imran Khan to make populist promises to please every section of the population. These included fiv
And the need to improve political culture Begun Kulsoom Nawaz was laid to rest after a widely attended funeral. She was the wife of a man who had been removed from the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/14/a-welcome-display-of-compassion/" title="Read more" >...</a>
In Pakistan, is courage confined to women alone? Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, who lost the battle against cancer on Wednesday, was a brave and dignified woman. At a time when few in the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/13/demise-of-a-brave-woman/" title="Read more" >...</a>
CJ takes notice Finally it took Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar to take note of NAB’s (National Accountability Bureau) habit of dragging names of people it is investigating into the public domain.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/13/nabs-media-trials/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Premier intel agency Prime Minister Imran Khan seems to gel very nicely with the brass. His eight hour reception at the GHQ some days ago – after which he dispelled all doubts<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/13/imran-khan-and-isi/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Musings on the founding father’s 70th death anniversary The ruling elite, both civilian and military, have turned Pakistan into a country where Jinnah would not have liked to live. An outstanding parliamentarian that<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/12/pakistan-after-jinnah/" title="Read more" >...</a>
