Editorial

Not surprising given the circumstances Pakistan ranked 109 (113 in 2017) out of 126 countries in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2018 owing largely to relentless political uncertainty that has persisted for<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/12/poor-ranking-on-the-gii/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Irreparable damage? So after triggering a financial spat with the EU, a trade war with China, sanctioning Russia, killing the Iran deal and muscling a currency collapse in Turkey, Donald Trump has<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/12/pak-us-relations-13/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Russian deputy defence minister’s landmark visit The nadir of Pak-Russia relations was hit during the Cold War when on May 1, 1960, a CIA U-2 spy plane taking off from a secret<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/11/reaching-out-to-moscow/" title="Read more" >...</a>

And keeping close watch PTI’s latest press release, indicating that the oath taking would take place now on Aug18 and it would feature prominent friends from across the border, typifies the party’s<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/11/welcoming-the-new-government/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Trust based? No doubt the most important foreign policy challenge for the new government would be resetting the relationship with the United States. And since Imran Khan has been perhaps the most<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/10/relationship-with-us/" title="Read more" >...</a>

In the provincesA good fortnight since the election and Imran Khan is still keeping his cards glued to his chest; at least with regard to the most important positions in Naya Pakistan. So far,

Clarity lacking For one reason or the other General Election 2018 just refuses to come full circle. Now, two weeks after July 25, a possible crisis is building as ECP (Election Commission<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/09/more-problems-for-pti/" title="Read more" >...</a>

What to do? Even as the hated and condemned rapist of the poor girl from Kasur was getting additional punishment over his involvement in similar abduction, rape and murder cases of minor<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/09/handling-rape-cases/" title="Read more" >...</a>

What a tangled web we weave…to deceive Even to otherwise sensible and aware people, the accusations constantly cropping up about massive organised corruption committed by politicians, bureaucrats, Public Service Enterprises’ heads and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/08/panama-leaks-the-sindhi-version/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Especially Kalabagh Whatever ‘foreign involvement’ caretaker minister for water resources, Ali Zafar, might suspect in the opposition to Kalabagh Dam, he seems to forget that internal conflict more than anything else has<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/08/the-dam-argument/" title="Read more" >...</a>

PTI, PML-N and PPP’s separate conclaves The July 25 general elections generated inevitable allegations of rigging and started the usual emotionally charged blame-game. In the heat of the moment, the sore losers,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/07/a-busy-monday-of-meetings/" title="Read more" >...</a>

And the usual suspects Once again the same pattern repeats itself. A rather well planned terrorist attack slips out of the noose constantly tightening round the terrorists, everybody is taken completely by<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/07/the-school-attacks/" title="Read more" >...</a>